- Nicotine leaves your body within 48 hours. You might not feel great but you will likely notice an improvement in your sense of smell and taste.
- You smell better. Your mouth and hair no longer smell of smoke.
- Cough disappears and phlegm production returns to normal.
- Energy level is higher. Stamina increases.
- Within 3 months your blood circulation will have improved. Your hands and feet will become warmer from improved circulation. Some people complain that they suffer a tingling sensation when they try to quit smoking. But this is a reason to rejoice since this is a sign that your blood is circulating again. Blood carries the nutrients and oxygen we need to survive, so it should be circulating rather instead of stagnating.
- Within two years, your chance of having a heart attack would be half that of a smoker. Blood pressure and pulse rate lower and become normal.
- In ten years after your last cigarette, you have cut the risk of contracting lung cancer in half than you would have done if you kept smoking. Risk of all diseases caused by smoking is reduced - emphysema, heart attacks, and cancers of all types.
- With the price of cigarettes and the other increased costs associated with being a smoker (higher life cover premiums, health insurance etc), you should be better off financially when you quit.
- You won't be putting your loved ones, especially your children, at risk. You won't have to worry about the effects of second and third hand smoke. You lessen their chance of losing you and you increase your chances of being there to witness the important milestones of their lives.
So the time to quit is now. Your loved ones and yourself will thank you for it.
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