I quit coming home from Ketofest 2018 and have remained tobacco free for over a full year now. My trials and tribulations begin here, were I show how I gained 30 pounds only 8 of which was lean. Then more about how I dealt with it by adding Choline.
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Gary Taubes wrote a good deal about nicotine in Good Calories Bad Calories and I would recommend you read the whole book not just the section on nicotine.
( i have added this edit a day later including the text)
Consider nicotine, for instance, which may be the most successful weight-loss drug in history, despite its otherwise narcotic properties. Cigarette smokers will weigh, on average, six to ten pounds less than nonsmokers. When they quit, they will invariably gain that much, if not more; approximately one in ten gain over thirty pounds. There seems to be nothing smokers can do to avoid this weight gain. The common belief is that ex-smokers gain weight because they eat more once they quit. They will, but according to studies only in the first two or three weeks. After a month, former smokers will be eating no more than they would have been had they continued to smoke. The excess of calories consumed is not enough to explain the weight gain. Moreover, as Judith Rodin, now president of Rockefeller University, reported in 1987, smokers who quit and then gain weight apparently consume no more calories than those who quit and do not gain weight. (They do eat “significantly more carbohydrates,” however, Rodin reported, and particularly more sugar.) Smokers also tend to be less active and exercise less than nonsmokers, so differences in physical activity also fail to explain the weight gain associated with quitting. The evidence suggests that nicotine induces weight loss by working on fat cells to increase their insulin resistance, while also decreasing the lipoprotein-lipase activity on these cells, both of which serve to inhibit the accumulation of fat and promote its mobilization over storage, as we discussed earlier (see Chapter 22). Nicotine also seems to promote the mobilization of fatty acids directly by stimulating receptors on the membranes of the fat cells that are normally triggered by hormones such as adrenaline. The drug also increases lipoprotein-lipase activity on muscles, and this may explain the steep rise in metabolic rate that occurs immediately after smoking. All of this fits with the observations that smokers use fatty acids for a greater proportion of their daily fuel than nonsmokers, and heavy smokers burn more fatty acids than light smokers. In short, nicotine appears to induce weight loss and fat loss not by suppressing appetite but by freeing up fatty acids from the fat cells and then directing them to the muscle cells, where they’re taken up and oxidized, providing the body with some excess energy in the process. When smokers quit, they gain weight because their fat cells respond to the absence of nicotine by significantly increasing lipoprotein-lipase activity. (There’s also evidence that the weight-reduction drug fenfluramine—the “fen” half of the popular weight-loss drug phen/fen, which was banned by the FDA in 1997—works in a similar manner, by decreasing lipoprotein-lipase activity in the fat tissue.)
Taubes, Gary. Good Calories, Bad Calories . Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.
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Finally, in January I was once again able to do extended fasts. The insulin resistance created by nicotine cessation made this difficult but it finally happened. Once this happened and I could fast again the weight came off pretty good. Since then I have helped coach a few people through this ugly horrendous time. But it is worth it.
In this last graph you can see exactly how according to multiple Dexascans I gained bodyfat. It was so difficult mentally going through adding fat but as I learned in the links I provided it is almost impossible to not gain weight. KCKO!!!
The blue line clearly shows when I left Ketofest 2018 and when I hit my worst since coming in to Keto, by Body fat was again over 25%. I am happily back about 16% right now and really very solidly built for a 55 year old guy. Keep the faith, stay away from the cigarette one hour at a time. The cigarette WILL NEVER feel as good as not smoking feels. Good Luck.
My husband and I lived to eat and we cooked, and cooked, and cooked some more. I gained 15kg and only keto repaired all those years of punishment with SAD weigh loss, the vicious cycle. When I went keto, I had to battle those demons again, snacking was an issue for me and that bastard still sneaks up on me every once in a while…