{"id":666734,"date":"2010-02-17T02:15:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-17T07:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thatsfit.ca\/2010\/02\/17\/can-exercise-help-you-quit-smoking\/"},"modified":"2026-10-04T10:41:00","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T14:41:00","slug":"can-exercise-help-you-quit-smoking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/666734","title":{"rendered":"Can Exercise Help You Quit Smoking?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Filed under: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thatsfit.ca\/category\/health\/\" rel=\"tag\">Health<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thatsfit.ca\/category\/fitness\/\" rel=\"tag\">Fitness<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.blogcdn.com\/www.thatsfit.ca\/media\/2010\/02\/smoking.jpg?w=780\" \/><br \/>\nNeed help butting out plus some extra incentive to hit the treadmill? Well, it turns out that exercise might be a good way to combat those nicotine cravings when you&#8217;re trying to quit smoking &#8212; and it&#8217;s also a good way to avoid those dreaded extra pounds that a lot of new non-smokers pile on, as they regain a healthy appetite and use food as a substitute for cigarettes. According to researchers at the University of Western Ontario&#8217;s new Exercise and Health Psychology Laboratory (as reported by Science Daily in &#8220;Sweating out the Cravings&#8221;), working out may be your best defense against cravings.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thatsfit.ca\/2010\/02\/17\/can-exercise-help-you-quit-smoking\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Continue reading <em>Can Exercise Help You Quit Smoking?<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;\">\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thatsfit.ca\/2010\/02\/17\/can-exercise-help-you-quit-smoking\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permanent link to this entry\">Permalink<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thatsfit.ca\/forward\/19348195\/\" title=\"Send this entry to a friend via email\">Email this<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thatsfit.ca\/2010\/02\/17\/can-exercise-help-you-quit-smoking\/#comments\" title=\"View reader comments on this entry\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Filed under: Health, Fitness Need help butting out plus some extra incentive to hit the treadmill? Well, it turns out that exercise might be a good way to combat those nicotine cravings when you&#8217;re trying to quit smoking &#8212; and it&#8217;s also a good way to avoid those dreaded extra pounds that a lot of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1691,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-666734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2NrM","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1691"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=666734"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":768149,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666734\/revisions\/768149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=666734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=666734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=666734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}