What Happens to Your body if you stop smoking Right now?

Cigarette contains tobacco, which has an addictive drug called Nicotine. It makes the smokers addicted to it continue smoking. People who are used to smoking, requires it on a daily basis to satisfy their cravings or to control their mood swings.

There are many reasons why people opt for smoking. Some may thing it is an attitudinal aspect, some might develop this habit as their family members or friends smoke. But once you get started off with it you gradually tend to become addicted. So its always easier not to start smoking at all.

I think one of the main reasons it’s so hard to quit smoking is because all the benefits of quitting and all the dangers of continuing seem very far away. Well, here’s a little time line about some of the more immediate effects of quitting smoking and how that will affect your body RIGHT NOW.

* In 20 minutes your blood pressure will drop back down to normal.

* In 8 hours the carbon monoxide (a toxic gas) levels in your blood stream will drop by half, and oxygen levels will return to normal.

* In 48 hours your chance of having a heart attack will have decreased. All nicotine will have left your body. Your sense of taste and smell will return to a normal level.

* In 72 hours your bronchial tubes will relax, and your energy levels will increase.

* In 2 weeks your circulation will increase, and it will continue to improve for the next 10 weeks.

* In three to nine months coughs, wheezing and breathing problems will dissipate as your lung capacity improves by 10%.

* In 1 year your risk of having a heart attack will have dropped by half.

* In 5 years your risk of having a stroke returns to that of a non-smoker.

* In 10 years your risk of lung cancer will have returned to that of a non-smoker.

* In 15 years your risk of heart attack will have returned to that of a non-smoker.

Stoping or giving up smoking is not very easy for a smoker, nowadays everybody knows about the ill effects of smoking and the adverse conditions it would produce. So if you never start smoking you will never have to know how hard it is to put a full stop it.

So, you have more immediate things to look forward to if you quit now besides just thinking about not being able to smoke. Quit now!

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