Quit Smoking
How to Quit Smoking and Start Living: A Step by Step Guide to Rid Your Body of the Nicotine Habit [K] [i] [n]
Jon Kudlow (Kindle Edition) Jon Kudlow 2010-01-09
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After 40 years and 3 packs a day, I quit smoking 2 weeks ago (with the help of Chantix). I read an article years ago that lists all the changes in your body and long term benefits. It stated how long it takes your body to get rid of all the chemicals that are in cigarettes, cancer risk after so many years, and so on.
Does anyone know what I am talking about and where can I get this article or list?
I think this is what you were thinking of.
Hey, besides all these, your teeth will look better once you get them bleached, your breath will smell nicer, your clothes won't reek, you'll be about $500 a month richer... That's $6K/yr. After 40 years you smoked away a pretty nice house in the 'burbs... You'll wonder what the heck took you so long. Good for you!
Time Since Quitting - Health Benefit
20 minutes - Your heart rate drops.
12 hours - The carbon monoxide level in your blood drops to normal.
2 weeks - 3 months - Circulation improves and lung function increases.
1 - 9 months - Coughing and shortness of breath decrease.
1 year - The excess risk of heart disease is half that of a smoker's.
5 - 15 years - The risk of stroke is as low as a nonsmoker's.
10 years - The lung cancer death rate is about half that of a smoker's.
15 years - The risk of heart disease is as low as a nonsmoker's.
www.QuitSmokingClickHere.com - A short video detailing the health benefits of quitting smoking. Describes the changes that occur over various ...
Your clothes, house, car and mouth don't stink any more.
You are able to climb satairs without being out of breath.
You can sleep better at night.
You are less susceptible to colds and flu.
Your overall helath imporoves significantly.
I can see that you are building up your resolve to stop. Soon, you will be ready.
Quitting smoking is a great opportunity to learn about ourselves, as you have already observed.
Congratulate yourself on having the desire to stop - then you are over the worst, but still need to maintain your resolve. It's just so easy to start thinking that just one won't hurt, but it does. Just one achieves nothing except feeling the need for another. Whatever you do, don't have just one.
Here's a few home-brewed tips that might be useful.
It's not just nicotine addiction - there are 50+ chemicals in cigarettes. Also the main problem is habit.
We have been used to having body sensations which we translate as 'my body needs something', which we have attempted to satisfy by having a cigarette.
When we try to stop smoking, we still get these 'my body needs something' sensations, and we still feel that we want a cigarette. We have to train our body to be more selective. When we feel we need something, we have to work out what it is that we actually need.
A glass of water is an excellent substitute if nothing else comes to mind, as it helps with the clearance of the toxic substances in our body. Another good substitute is a bag of salted peanuts, used in combination with the water.
Another thing to do is to find an activity which occupies the mind or body. Go swimming - nobody wants to smoke while they are swimming. Slowly, as our body adjusts and translates the 'want something' feelings into something other than cigarettes, then the feelings begin to go away. We know its not a cigarette that the body really needs, because as soon as we've had one we still have the feeling, and want another!
We will have a few bouts of feeling or even being short tempered. We must try to bite our lip, and control; ourselves. Recognise the short temper as being the removal of toxins which are trying to find a way out. They went in through the mouth, and they try to get out that way to. We must learn to keep our mouth closed, and force the toxins out the other way.
After we have stopped for a while we will begin to feel that just one wont to any harm.
All that leads to is a desire for just another one. We must guard very strongly against the desire to have just one.
20 Minutes After Quitting
Your heart rate drops.
12 hours After Quitting
Carbon monoxide level in your blood drops to normal.
2 Weeks to 3 Months After Quitting
Your heart attack risk begins to drop.
Your lung function begins to improve.
1 to 9 Months After Quitting
Your Coughing and shortness of breath decrease.
1 Year After Quitting
Your added risk of coronary heart disease is half that of a smoker's.
5 Years After Quitting
Your stroke risk is reduced to that of a nonsmoker's
10 Years After Quitting
Your lung cancer death rate is about half that of a smoker's.
Your risk of cancers of the mouth, throat, esophagus, bladder, kidney, and pancreas decreases.
15 Years After Quitting
Your risk of coronary heart disease is back to that of a nonsmoker's.
Im 18 years old been smoking since i was about 13....my friend told me he grew bout 3-4 inches after he quit....hes bout 21....I was jus wondering if i might expect to grow som inches THAT WOULD BE GRAND =p
The best physical benefit from not smoking is not ending up dead from lung cancer.
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Addictions Overcome: Short amp; Long Term Benefits of Quitting Smoking
People quit smoking for one reason to another and health is often being the primary reason why people decide to quit. They know for a fact that the journey isn't easy.
There are many ways to quit smoking, one can choose methods like cold turkey, use cessation aids such as pills, patches, gums or hypnotism. But no matter which method you choose, you need a great deal of determination and strong mind to succeed.
There are many long term effects of quitting and the major ones are that you will live longer and healthier life. Well, it's a fact of life. Those who smoke at least a pack of 20 a day don't live long enough. They tend to suffer with illnesses later in life. Yet many disregard this and continue to smoke till the day when everything is a little too late to stop. And when major illness strikes, it puts a stop to everything.
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