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Many smokers keep it up because they think they will gain weight if they quit. But what if smoking was more a factor in weight gain - but one that took place over time? “How can this be?” you ask. Let me share why..

Your liver is your prime detoxification and your prime fat burning organ. Your liver actually has over one thousand different jobs, and two of its important jobs are daily detoxification and fat burning. 

Most people know that smoking pollutes the body with literally hundreds of different and dangerous chemicals per cigarette. But, you may not know that with habits that pollute the body to such an extreme, your liver easily becomes overloaded from the constant need to detoxify all of these incoming chemicals.

In addition to being generally overworked, your liver will also eventually become congested with toxins. This is because if your liver can’t render a toxin harmless for you - it’ll store it. Your liver does this to keep the incoming chemicals and toxins out of your bloodstream - and keep them from causing you immediate harm. It’s a short term favor your liver will do for you, but if it’s allowed to happen continually, it’ll absolutely cause problems over time.

By smoking, toxins will build in your liver and your entire body. With time, your liver will become impaired and unable to do its regular work - including burning fat and daily detoxification. Actually, smoking is an excellent way to build toxicity in your liver and thus  hamper your liver’s ability to burn fat. But that’s not what most people want. It’s the opposite of what they want.

Quitting smoking is an excellent move in the right direction to dramatically decrease your incoming toxic load. In addition, doing a body cleanse, including a liver cleanse, can work wonders in removing much of the toxicity that smokers and even ex-smokers carry in their bodies. Because, while it’s unfortunate, most accumulated toxicity will stay in your body until some deep cleansing, especially liver cleansing, is done. And there’s only so much of a toxic burden that a body can bear before it starts showing symptoms of problems. Weight gain is actually a common symptom of an unhealthy liver! Health problems are too.

It’s no secret that health problems are more common and often more serious in smokers. Do you know why? The pollution of the body with so many highly toxic chemicals is certainly a considerable part of the reason.

But the other part is that by overburdening and overworking the liver, the chemicals actually hamper the liver’s ability to detoxify itself - in general. And when our livers can’t detoxify all of the unnatural incoming chemicals from smoking, processed foods, non-organic foods, lotions, cleaning supplies, and cosmetics, these toxins will start to build in a manner unprecedented in your body. You’ll undoubtedly start to see problems.

In addition, if you haven’t quit yet, body cleansing can help you quit. This is because it’s the chemicals from the cigarettes in your body that are causing your cravings. You didn’t have cigarette cravings before you began smoking, did you? So by removing these chemicals from your body, you can eliminate your cravings. Trust me, both dropping the butt and cleaning out your body can be the best things you’ve ever done for yourself. And you might just lose some weight in the process.