You can control your weight as you quit smoking

Here is some advice: to avoid gaining weight when you quit smoking, you need to do physical activities to burn your increasing calories, changes your eating habits to control the total amount of calories you input. In one study, women who stopped smoking and added 45 minutes of walking a day gained less than 3 pounds. Besides controlling weight, exercise can increase energy, promote self-confidence, improve your health, relieve the stress and depression caused by the lack of nicotine in your body. Try to do at least 30 minutes of physical activities a day on most days of the week, such as gardening, housework, mowing the lawn, playing actively with children, taking the stairs instead of the elevator.
Try to gradually improve your eating habits. Eating a variety of foods from each group in the Food Guide Pyramid each day.
Think before you act, friends. Choose a healthy, safe, effective way to keep you healthy and lose your weight.

vocabulary:

Chronic 慢性的 lasting for a long time; difficult to cure or get rid of

Emphysema 肺氣腫 a condition that affects the lungs, making it difficult to breathe

Pyramid 金字塔 a large building with a square or TRIANGULAR base and sloping side that meet in a point at the top. The ancient

Egyptians built stone pyramids as places to bury their kings and queens.

Bronchitis 支氣管炎 an illness that affect the bronchial tubes leading to the lungs

Stroke 中風 a sudden serious illness when a blood VESSEL (=tube) in the brain bursts or the loss of the ability to move or to speak clearly.