Does chewing tobacco make you lose weight?

I heard that chewing tobacco causes weight loss because of all the spitting but I can't find anything on the internet that says this.

Wrestles would do it because they believed that he tobacco would cause their mouth to water and they could then spit it out. I have seen guys do this and loose a pound or 2, but you could do the same thing with hard candy and not have the risk of addiction. I took my first chew when I was 15. I now sit here at 34 with my can on my desk. I have tried to quit several times and have gained 30-40 pounds every time I have tried. It seems like you get used to having something in your mouth, and when you are going through the nicotine withdrawal, you always put something in there. Tobacco also is known to be an appetite suppressant, but I am not sure of any research on this. My advice is don't do it. We bought my uncle a roll of premium snuff today and it cost $52.00 for 10 cans. That's 2 tanks of gas or an XBOX game.

I don't know anything on the Internet either, but I tend to lose weight when I chew. I don't think it has much to do with the spitting, because when I chew my I don't eat as much as I normally would

Yea once you get mouth cancer and you lose your tongue, all your teeth and jaw and can't eat anymore!

well it probably depends on ur body type. This is also true of smoking. It can help u stay smaller (and i use help VERY LIGHTLY). But i thinks its from the chemicals that it does this. But this does not work for every person.

However chewing is not great to begin with. We studied the affects of chewing after a period of time. Look up the term Harry Tongue in connection with Chewing tobaco and see what u come up with. THe grossest pictures in the world... omg they showed us this in school and i think there were one or two people that got sick. as much as u might be maybe looking for a quick fix for losing weight. chewing tobaco probably isn't the way to go considering the issues u could get from the tobaco sitting in ur mouth for so long...

Sorry for not really helping

I can imagine that the chewing of the tobacco could possibly satisfy a desire to eat in some way thereby encouraging weight loss. The only thing to be concerned about would be, as Jo said, developing some type of mouth cancer. I would suspect that another concern might be having a place to spit.