Weaker connected and weaker nowhere locally compact topologies for metrizable and similar spaces

We prove that any metrizable non-compact space has a weaker metrizable nowhere locally compact topology. As a consequence, any metrizable non-compact space has a weaker Hausdorff connected topology. The same is established for any Hausdorff space X with a σ-locally finite base whose weight w(X) is a successor cardinal.