What Happen To Your Body If You Stop Smoking?

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

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 timeline 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.

 

I'd imagine all of that depends on how long you've smoked, so it's not entirely accurate.

 

exactly Axiom, and also it would depend if you'd already had a stroke/cancer/heart attack

Still though, why pay to kill yourself.

 

I tried a cigarette once just to see what it was like (I was young and naive), and I haven't picked up the habit. It made me ill.

 

Yeah, smoking is pretty stupid. Good job posting this though, maybe because of you someone will stop smoking.

 

I dont think that after 48 hours taste will come back if you've been smokeing for years...

 

Lol..
young and naive..
bah


and nice post dude

 

I concur

 

It all depends on how much you've smoked, but good facts.

 

That guy had his facts wrong, or kind of.

I found the site AE got it from, and I found the site that the guy from the site AE found got it from, he's an improv actor, not a doctor.

It did not directly say to which type (amount of years) of smokers the list refers to, so I am assuming all. The body recycles and removes most of that stuff out of your body. Also realize the year variation on some of the things.

Anyways, here's the official list:

20 minutes after quitting: Your heart rate drops.
(US Surgeon General's Report, 1988, pp. 39, 202)

12 hours after quitting: The carbon monoxide level in your blood drops to normal.
(US Surgeon General's Report, 1988, p. 202)

2 weeks to 3 months after quitting: Your circulation improves and your lung function increases.
(US Surgeon General's Report, 1990, pp.193,194,196,285,323)

1 to 9 months after quitting: Coughing and shortness of breath decrease; cilia (tiny hair like structures that move mucus out of the lungs) regain normal function in the lungs, increasing the ability to handle mucus, clean the lungs, and reduce the risk of infection.
(US Surgeon General's Report, 1990, pp. 285-287, 304)

1 year after quitting: The excess risk of coronary heart disease is half that of a smoker's.
(US Surgeon General's Report, 1990, p. vi)

5 years after quitting: Your stroke risk is reduced to that of a nonsmoker 5-15 years after quitting.
(US Surgeon General's Report, 1990, p. vi)

10 years after quitting: The lung cancer death rate is about half that of a continuing smoker's. The risk of cancer of the mouth, throat, esophagus, bladder, cervix, and pancreas decrease.
(US Surgeon General's Report, 1990, pp. vi, 131, 148, 152, 155, 164,166)

15 years after quitting: The risk of coronary heart disease is that of a nonsmoker's.
(US Surgeon General's Report, 1990, p. vi)

You might also want to look at the year this information was taken. Medical advances may have proved some of these things wrong, as well as the new things in cigarettes. So this could be very inaccurate.

Anyways just though I would post the REAL information.

 

I read it on shoutwire. I'm trying to scare my father into it.

 

i dont smoke never will doesnt bother me

 

nice facts but thrie right

 

I've been off the ciggies for a yr now and I feel much healthier

Still crave them from time to time tho :/ Had a drag of one the other day and coughed my guts up lmao - definitely won't be starting up again

 

But I like ciggies ^_^ lol i'll quit now ok