Anyone use vaping as a substitute for mindless snacking?

[justiniawa]

I'm not vaping just for weight loss, but the past few nights, I've just vaped instead of snacked and I feel like if it becomes a trend I could lose some serious weight doing this. Has anyone else intentionally OR unintentionally lost weight vaping?

 

[Uisgemann]

I've given up smoking a few times. I tried patches, then I tried gum, then I went cold turkey. On all three occasions I found myself sitting on the bridge of my ship, twiddling my thumbs, until I remembered that there was an essentially endless supply of biscuits at my disposal, and all of a sudden I'd replaced smoking with biscuits. The patches made me feel sick, and I inevitably threw up whatever I ate, so I didn't gain weight there, and the gum was increasing my nicotine intake by a frightening amount, and didn't kill the cravings at all, but when I quit cold turkey I put on 8kg (over a stone) in two weeks.
Since I started Vaping, I haven't felt the need to have the biscuits, so initially I lost 10kg, but now I'm putting it back on in the form of muscle, since I can go to the gym without dying in the first five minutes. Vaping has made an enormous difference to my life, and so far it's all positive. I only really have desserts when I'm eating out or on special occasions now, otherwise a nice sweet flavour gives me as much pleasure as a dessert could, and without the dietary effects.

Hope this helps.

 

[vaporsizer]

An interesting question. I'm a thin frame anyway & when i smoked i could never gain weight, only lose it. As soon as i gave up the fags, BOOM, a stone & half gained in a month & for the first time ever i was around my healthy average weight for my height. I think it was due the eating more & some of that was sweets & buscuits, cakes etc.. Some was just more food in general.

Now though i have found that i definitely snack less & what's better is that i eat far less sweet food. I mean like candy, chocolate, cakes or anything in that area. So yeah, i can enjoy a vape, get a pleasant flavour without coating my teeth with sugar & that is another positive for vaping.... Glad you asked.

 

[drstevo]

Me and a friend gave up ciggys at the same time. I moved into vaping he did not. I have lost 2 stone, he has gained 2 stone!

 

[Chegs]

Nicotine is an appetite suppressant is why I was told my weight increased when I quit smoking,I have now been a vaper for 7 mths & my weight hasn't altered(it started to drop during the warmer rain)as the colder rain has kept me indoors more.I've been advised to reduce my weight by my Dr to reduce the strain on my arthritic joints,but likely by the time the weather improves enough to resume venturing out my joints will be so fucked as to make this unlikely.

 

[justiniawa]

Thanks for all the answers. Did you guys know some sellers are selling ecigs with snack food flavored juices and calling it "the new groundbreaking weight loss fad" its interesting.

 

[mrmattlaw]

Guess it's just me, I seem to have put on weight. Although I think it's because I started vaping on 12mg and have stayed on that. I think I should have started on 24mg or something because I've been a raiding the naughty cupboard!

 

[Billie86]

Since I quit smoking 7 weeks ago even tho I went str8 onto vaping I have put a stone on but I blame that on regaining my tastebuds, as soon as I realised I had put the weight on I went on a low carb diet and started buying sweeter e-juices, mainly desserts for those late night snacking erges, only started the diet last week but have lost 4lbs already so I think it might work for me

 

[madpiano]

I have actually put on weight - I don't think the nicotine is an appetite suppressant, something else in cigarettes must be.

I normally do intermittent fasting and the first 2 weeks I was unable to fast. I was ravenously hungry all the time. Could be a combo of giving up the cigarettes and the fact that I normally don't eat sweets and all the juices taste like gummy bears. It is slowly getting better now. I cna last a couple of hours without eating again, although still not able to get a whole day in. Weight has stabilized, I am hoping another week or so and I can go back to IF.

I tried low carb, but sadly it is so expensive!! I did feel much better when on it though.

 

[VeeDubZ]

yeah i vape instead of snacking in the evenings, when i first quit smoking i put on 2 and a half stone then started smoking again and couldnt shif the weight, then when i quit again the aim was to get healthy so i started dieting and working out, now if i get peckish in the evenings ill just have a vape instead of snacking, lost 4 and a half stone and feel much better for it.