What Happens to Your Body When You Stop Smoking?
A common question amongst smokers, is what exactly happens to your body when you finally stop smoking? The World Health Organization and U.S. Department of Health and Human Services have conducted a wide-range of studies in order to help determine the health benefits of kicking the habit as well as looking at how your body reacts to kicking the habit! An outline of what happens to your body when you quit cigarettes:
Quit Smoking Time + 20 Minutes: Your body’s blood pressure will begin to drop and the body temperature of your extremities will begin to rise back to a normal level.
Quit Smoking Time + 8 Hours: The CO level in your blood will drop to the normal amount found in adults and you will see an associated increase in your blood oxygen levels.
Quit Smoking Time + 24 Hours: The odds of you keeling over dead due to heart attack start to decrease.
Quit Smoking Time + 48 Hours: Your sense of taste and smell begin to come back, and nerve endings damaged from smoking start to grow back.
Quit Smoking Time + 2 Weeks – 3 Months: The circulation in your body significantly improves and you no longer wheeze or cough as much when you try to walk. The amount of phlegm produced by your body also significantly decreases and you see a big improvement in your lung’s capability.
Quit Smoking Time + 1 – 9 Months: You start to see a decrease of sinus congestion, fatigue, shortness of breath, and coughing. The cilia in your lungs (small, hair-like structures that help remove mucus from you lungs) start to behave normally.
Quit Smoking Time + 1 Year: The danger of you having a heart attack or coronary heart disease is reduced to ½ that from when you were a smoker.
Quit Smoking Time + 5-15 Years: Your risk of stroke reduces to a normal level.
Quit Smoking Time + 10 Years: The odds of getting lung cancer significantly drop as well as the chances of getting cancer of the throat, bladder, kidney, pancreas, esophagus, or mouth.
Quit Smoking Time + 15 Years: The danger of getting heart disease or having a heart attack returns to normal levels.
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