Benefits of Quitting Smoking

If you think quitting smoking is not a very good idea because the damage is already done, then you are WRONG! Your body has the capacity to heal and thus, the benefits of quitting began immediately after the last smoke... The benefits apply irrespective of whether you already have smoking related diseases or not!

Smoking increases the blood pressure and pulse rate. Twenty minutes after you snub the last cigarette, both start decreasing and return to normal. With these, your body temperature which had decrease due to smoking, also bounces back.

The carbon monoxide that you have taken in while puffing the smoke is a LETHAL gas: and one that your system cannot get rid of very easily. But after eight hours of being a non-smoker, you blood is clean of it, and fresh oxygen replaces it. You can now breathe! And, your breath no longer smells of smoke.

Within the first day your chances of heart attack decrease. By the second day, the nerve-ending that were damaged due to smoking start re-growing, so that your sense of taste and smell enhances. You can now enjoy the assortment of bath soaps you got for your birthday, scented candles on the dinner candles, and the gourmet food that was cooked with utmost care.

Further your body would have clear off most of the nicotine you have taken in by now. That means you are clean of the two most dangerous chemicals that smoking had put into your body!

After the first two to three months, blood flows more easily in your system, and you're your lungs are able to breathe deeply and effectively. As a result you can walk more comfortably, and tire less. You can now look forward to participating in the city marathon, that you did not consider before because of the lack of your stamina.

By the night month, you would not be having trouble with blocked sinuses. You will realize that you can now actually sign up for the marathon, because running does not tire you, and you do not feel the shortness of breath. And you can enjoy the humor, because you do not cough between laughing at those jokes!

Further your body would have clear off most of the nicotine you have taken in by now. That means you are clean of the two most dangerous chemicals that smoking had put into your body!

The body healing is a not a simple process. You will face withdrawal symptoms, because it suddenly feels it cannot do without nicotine. But that's just the beginning of the process. When the good effects start happening, quitting will become easier.

The healing begins soon, but to heal completely may take years. The blessings of quitting, thus, just keep on increasing. A year after you have quit your risk of coronary diseases would have reduced to half that of a smoker. 10 years down the lane, your chances of giving lung cancer would have reduced to half that of your pals who smoke, and risk of cancer of the mouth, throat, esophagus, bladder, kidney, and pancreas and ulcers just keeps decreasing. 15 years later, it would be as if you have never smoked, because the risk of heart disease and strokes, and your life expectancy will be that of a non-smoker.

The benefits extend beyond yourself to other people in your life. If you are in the first two months of pregnancy when you quit, you baby will be of the same weight as that of a non-smoking mother.

Think of the fact that your kids will have a better example, that they will not be facing the dangers of second hand smoking, that you would be able to spend quality time with them because you do not tire on vacations, or while teaching them baseball. Further, your friends and family will not find your company offensive, since you do not reek of smoke.

Think of the fact that you will be able to enjoy the blessings of life: the good food, the spring flowers, the smell of a newly bathed baby, the cologne your wife uses...

Think of the fact that you will not have to run to the corner drug store in the rain, because you are out of cigarettes, and that you will be saving all that money that you can now save for a better vacation, for gifts for friends, on books and clothes, on charities etc.

Think of how painless your life is without the racking cough, of how you can enjoy the good time your friends are having because there are no interruptions because of it.

Think of the clean ashtrays, unstained teeth, fresh smelling clothes, and the confidence they would give to you.

Think of how your life would change for the better, how your relationships will get stronger, how you will suddenly be more aware and perceptive of the good things in your life… Think of your parents and spouses and kids and friends...

Think of yourself... QUIT SMOKING