When you smoke, it's so easy to skip meals. Therefore, you're basically undernourished and have to be doing something really wrong to be overweight. So, most smokers never will be.

But that's hardly a good thing.

I quit and did put on weight and I've got to put that down to all the hard boozing I did. I did that too when I was a smoker, but like I say in the first paragraph, it was easy to skip meals when I was a smoker so keeping my weight in check was so easy when I was able to smoke a cig instead compared to now.

But now I'm at the next stage (after smoking 25 years and having just gone 6 months without).

I'm watching what I drink. And I'm just making a few sensible changes in my diet (more salads, more baked potatoes, NO BREAD / BREAD-LIKE PRODUCTS, no butter, no tomato ketchup). Much less alcohol (at least until I'm back to the weight I should be).

I love all food so it's easy. Less eating out (saves a load of cash), smaller portions and getting off my arse more really is helping.

Good luck staying off cigarettes, either way and you're doing the right thing quitting. You look like you're doing it cold turkey. I'd google champix if I were you, though. It's a wonderdrug. (There's a similar product even cheaper online but its name eludes me.)