The Benefits When You Quit Smoking
Are you comfortable with yellow teeth?
Do you like
breathing heavily right after scrambling a couple of steps up a staircase?
Does an ashtray smelling breath make you feel self-assured?
If
you are comfortable with these things then you should cease reading and be as
happy as you can with your smoke driven life. If not, then the next few
paragraphs just might make provide you with that crucial final thrust to get
you over that cliff of nicotine addiction.
Once you quit smoking, you
can begin to see changes in as fast as twenty minutes.
In less than half an hour, your blood pressure and
pulse rate drops to normal. Within 8 hours the carbon monoxide level in your
blood drops to normal and the oxygen level increases and by the end of day one
(24 hours) your chance of having a heart attack has decreased.
After
two days, your destroyed nerve ending will begin to re-develop and re-grow.
Your ability to smell and taste things improves noticeably. Within another day,
your Bronchial tubes begin to relax making breathing easier.
In two to
twelve weeks, you'll enjoy even more health-related benefits such as improved
circulation and increased lung function. Your lungs start functioning up to 30%
better.
In nine months at most, you'll be in possession of cleaner and
better lungs and the tendency to cough will greatly decrease. Lastly, you'll
also feel that you're not as short of breath as you used to be.
One year after your decision to quit smoking, your
excess risk of having a heart coronary disease is already 50% less of a
smoker's, and within two years the risk of you having a heart attack drops to
near normal. This means that after two years you are well on your way to be
almost as healthy as someone who doesn’t smoke.
In as early as five years after your decision to quit
smoking, the chances that you'll have a stroke is already equal to that of a
non-smoker!
In as early as a decade, the probability that you'll
die of lung cancer - which is the fate of most people who don't want to quit
smoking - is half of a continuing smoker already! And in fifteen years' time,
the likelihood that you'll experience heart coronary disease - one of the most
serious risks that all chain smokers face - is that of a
non-smoker's!
Now, that is good news isn’t it. From day one you're
becoming more healthy and after a couple of years the risk of disease is been
reduced. After around 10 to 15 years your body is almost that of someone who
has never smoked adding more years to your life.
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