Happens When You Quit Smoking?

What Happens When You Quit Smoking?

Winding down and relaxing without a cigarette may seem like a totally unrealistic goal to begin with but once you battle through the nicotine cravings and frustration, you'll find quitting smoking is a lot easier than you thought. You'll look and feel 10 years younger, dramatically reduce your risk of a heart attack, stroke and cancer, smell gorgeous and be better off to start a family! (And that's not even half of it.)

As soon as you stop smoking your body begins to repair itself. Typical benefits of quitting smoking are as follows:

Within 6 hours

• Your heart rate slows down and your blood pressure becomes more stable.

Within a day

• Almost all of the nicotine is out of your bloodstream.
• The level of carbon monoxide in your blood has dropped and oxygen can more easily reach your heart and muscles.     
• Your fingertips become warmer and your hands steadier.

Within a week

• Your sense of taste and smell may improve.
• Your lungs’ natural cleaning system is starting to recover, becoming better at removing mucus, tar and dust from your lungs (exercise helps to clear out your lungs).
• You have higher blood levels of protective antioxidants such as vitamin C.

Within 3 months

• You’re coughing and wheezing less.
• Your immune system is beginning its recovery so your body is better at fighting off infection.
• Your blood is less thick and sticky and blood flow to your hands and feet has improved.

Within 6 months

• You are less likely to be coughing up phlegm.
• You're likely to feel less stressed than when you were smoking.

After 1 year

• Your lungs are now healthier and you’ll be breathing easier than if you’d kept smoking.

Within 2 to 5 years

• There is a large drop in your risk of heart attack and stroke and this risk will continue to gradually decrease over time.
• For women, within five years, the risk of cervical cancer is the same as someone who has never smoked.

After 10 years

• Your risk of lung cancer is lower than that of a continuing smoker (provided the disease was not already present when you quit.

After 15 years

• Your risk of heart attack and stroke is close to that of a person who has never smoked.

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Source of information taken from: http://www.quit.org.au/reasons-to-quit/health-benefits-of-quitting.