Timeline For The Benefits Of Quitting Smoking Cigarettes

 

It is amazing how quickly the body begins to heal when you quit smoking. This is what happens if you quit cold-turkey:

1. Pulse, hand temperature and blood pressure go back to normal within 20 minutes.

2. It only takes eight hours for blood-nicotine levels to drop by almost 94 percent.

3. Within a half-day, the normal carbon monoxide and oxygen levels in your blood have been restored.

4. It takes only one day for quitting-related anxieties to reach their peak.

5. Related irritable behavior peaks after about two days. Meanwhile, taste and smell start to be restored.

6. After three days, most nicotine-linked chemicals have exited your body. Your breathing will improve as tubes inside your lungs relax.

7. At about the same time, cravings and withdrawal symptoms will reach their peak and begin to decline.

8. Within 10 days, most people find that their cravings reduce to once or twice daily.

9. Tooth and gum blood circulation returns to normal about 10 to 14 days after you quit smoking.

10. It takes around three weeks for nicotine-induced changes to the brain to partially reverse themselves.

11. After around three weeks, the sleeplessness and emotional effects of quitting should come to an end.

12. It takes around two to 12 weeks for your risk of a heart attack to begin dropping.

13. You will find it less difficult to walk after about three to 12 weeks. Coughing should also come to an end.

14. Although people often gain some weight when they stop smoking, resistance to insulin becomes normal after almost two months.

15. Within nine months, people feel more energetic and sinus congestion reduces substantially.

16. It takes around 12 months to reduce stroke and heart disease risks by approximately 50 percent.

17. Within about a decade, your lung cancer risk will have fallen by around 40 percent.

18. After thirteen years, you are no more likely to lose teeth than the average person.

19. Two decades after quitting, studies show that most health risks have returned to normal levels.

You will gain the most if you quit early, but it is never too late to benefit. Please visit our website regularly for more stop smoking tips.