Benefits of Quitting Smoking

The single best thing you can do to improve your health is to quit smoking as the non-smokers have much lower risk of smoke-related diseases such as cancer, heart related problems, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Diseases (COPD) and so on.

Given below is the timeline of benefits if you quit smoking now:

·        (within 8 hours) There is a drop in carbon monoxide level in your body and oxygen levels to normal.

·        (48 hours) Chances of you having heart attack starts decreasing and your taste and smell senses starts improving.

·        (72 hours) Relaxing of the bronchial tubes making the breathing easier and significant increase in lung capacity.

·        (2 weeks-3 months) Improvement in blood circulation and lung functionality increases by 30%

·        (6 Months) Coughing is gone and there is improvement in stuffy nose, tiredness and shortness of breath.

·        (1 year) Smoke-related heart attack risk reduced to half.

·        (10 years) Risk of dying from lung cancer reduced to half.

·        (15 years) your body is as good as a non-smoker and your risk of dying from any ailment is same as that of a normal person.

Other benefits include better example for your children, you no longer affect others with your smoking, and you are saving more money than usual (approx. $3000 annually), you are more energetic, lower life insurance premiums etc.

 

 

So where do you stand on this timeline and how has been progress so far?

So where do you stand on this timeline and how has been progress so far?