How to Quit Smoking: Without Gaining Weight (Paperback)

~ (Author)

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

A guide to quitting smoking that comes with a money-back guarantee.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Product Description

The author of The T-Factor Diet explains how dieting after quitting smoking increases nicotine cravings and offers advice on the best method of quitting, beneficial exercises, and the right foods to eat.

Product Details

• Paperback: 228 pages
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition (May 1, 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0393315223
• ISBN-13: 978-0393315226
• Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 4.8 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 2.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #2,236,688 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars A standard, formulaic diet book, January 11, 1999

By A Customer

This book doesn't quite live up to its title. The skimpy info on the special problems smokers run into with regard to weight management (which most people already know if they've read anything about it in newspapers or in the smoking-related Newsgroups) is heavily padded out with pages and pages of standard fat-content charts and blank charts to fill out as part of the author's "7+7" weight program. This gimmicky program essentially states: Eat less fat and exercise.

The information on smoking cessation programs is also very dated; Zyban/Wellbutrin are not mentioned, and the nicotine patch seems to have been almost an experimental technique when this book was written. This little book seems like it was cranked out as a quick money-maker--a standard, formulaic diet book with a few cliched statements about smoking thrown in.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars This book works if you're a need-to-know type, November 2, 1999

By A Customer

This book prepared me for what to expect -- what stages my cravings would go through and why, and for how long. It let me know why I might or might not gain weight and what I needed to do to counteract that. The book provided the tools for understanding the physical repercussions of quitting. I guess forewarned is forearmed.

2.0 out of 5 stars So-so, July 11, 2007

By	khd (virginia, usa) - See all my reviews

There are better quit smoking references out there. I don't think the author should have started out with how hard it is to quit smoking. I had more cravings while reading those chapters than during my first week quit.
I give 2 stars only because it is accurate in the fact of the body fat/carb chemistry changing.