SMOKERS..... please read..............
When you stop smoking
Summarized by Robert W. Griffith, MD
Stopping smoking at any age is very hard to do. For relatively healthy young people, the prospect of avoiding a serious illness (e.g. lung cancer, a heart attack) is often too far off to act as a strong incentive. (Young people always think they'll live for ever, or at least until they're 50.) So it helps to think of some of the immediate benefits of stopping smoking, as well as the more distant ones.
Here they are:
20 minutes after your last cigarette- your blood pressure and pulse rate return to what they were just before your last cigarette, and your hands and feet warm up to the temperature they were before smoking.
8 hours after your last cigarette- the carbon monoxide level in you blood falls, and the oxygen level increases, so that both become normal.
24 hours after your last cigarette- the chance of your having a heart attack is lessened
48 hours after your last cigarette- your nerve endings start regrowing, so your senses of both smell and taste improve. Walking becomes easier.
By 3 months after your last cigarette- your circulation has improved, and your lung function has increased by up to 30%.
By 9 months after your last cigarette- the cells lining your airways have fully recovered, so that they remove mucus better, you cough less, have less sinus congestion, and your shortness of breath has gone.
1 year after your last cigarette- your risk of coronary heart disease is now half that of a smoker's.
5 years after your last cigarette- your risk of having a stroke is now greatly reduced, approaching that of someone who has never smoked.
10 years after your last cigarette- your risk of dying from lung cancer is about half that of someone still smoking. Your chances of getting cancer of the mouth, throat, gullet, pancreas, kidney, and bladder are greatly reduced, compared with a smoker's.
15 years after your last cigarette- your risk of having coronary heart disease is no greater then that of someone who has never smoked. Congratulations!
Thank for the article. very interesting.but as a smoker i would have to agree that a smoker only quits when he/she wants to. it is tru that we think we'll live forever but the fact is, we're going to die anyway! and why not die happy?!! thanks smoke for the website on benefits... i know a lot of people who will appreciate such refreshing information!!!!
"eat, drink and be merry"
Well said Cornellian !!
"No matter what u tell smokers, they won't quit until they want to."
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It's time for a Smoke break ;-)
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Thanks sky. Just for your info, Mr Robert Griffith who is confirmed non-smoker was unable to continue his observation what is happening after 15 years since the last cigarette. He died (not from heart attack) from car attack.
not only that...*blows smoke in vegas's face* muahahaha
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You can't teach experience...
Grrr early in the morning i come here and this is what i see...Fear not fellow smokers...take a little looksy at the following site:-http://www.drquit.com/articles/trying/benefits/index.html
Those are just SOME benefits of smoking ;)
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i have read this article before in readers digest its really scientifically interesting. thanks it reminds me those numbers as my basis explaining to smokers.
was easy for me and i feel much better yet
:-)
No matter what u tell smokers, they won't quit until they want to.
I'm not always right, but I'm never wrong -Garfield
This is quite intresting... thanks for sharing sky. I am actually trying to quit
smoking, but it takes a little time. Insha'Allah very soon i'll be off this habit.
It's always the small things that make big differences.