STOP SMOKING BENEFITS
Congratulations on becoming a non-smoker.
Your body will start to improve and recovery immediately after you quit smoking:
- Within less than 1 hour your heart rate returns to a normal and slower level due to the decrease in epinephrine and norepinephrine
- Within 8 hours the carbon monoxide in the blood clears resulting in blood oxygen levels to return to normal. And blood pressure can return to a safe level. Carbon monoxide and oxygen compete and stress the circulatory system.
- For long term of heavy smokers red blood vessels increase in thickness over the years meaning your blood pressure can increase and your risk of forming blood clots is raised. Quitting smoking corrects this.
- Within 24 hours you may find yourself coughing more as your body starts to expel all the toxins in your lungs that the smoke has formed which reduces the risk of developing coronary heart disease.
- Within 48 hours (depending on size of body, slighter people less time) all levels of nicotine is out of the body hence the idea of cravings being experienced is all in the mind, not in the body. Damaged nerve endings begin to regrow and tastes buds start to regain their sensitivity without the tar being inhaled, hence food will taste better.
- After 1 month the risk of developing type 2 diabetes, cardio vascular disease and cancer has decrease significantly.
- After 6 – 9 months the damaged cilia, or Microscopic hairs covering the lungs to keep passages clean, begins to repair, eliminating shortness of breath and coughing.
- After 10 years the chances of developing lung cancer reduces more than 50%