This is the one time you can start something and quit without finishing and you will be applauded and cheered by everyone around you, even the smokers that want to quit. Did you grow up with the solid belief that once you start something, you never quit? Well here is where life loves a quitter.
Quitting smoking can have positive experiences in the early stages that give you the strength to continue. In this article I will touch on the important ones.
Consider these rewards for quitting: 20 minutes after you stop smoking, your heart rate slows down to a calm, steady beat, lowering your blood pressure.
Another benefit is the dangerous carbon monoxide levels in your blood begin to drop to a reasonable level. Carbon monoxide in your system has been known to give someone that sick feeling like the flu.
The largest benefit is your risk level of heart attack lessens and continues to decline in a more healthy direction. Food will start to taste good again. Instead of something that helps the cigarettes taste better. Think about that.
The air will actually smell fresh as your sense of smell comes back. Wait till you put on a jacket that you used to wear when you were a smoker. You'll be wondering what the stink is until you suddenly realize that it's the cigarette smoke in your clothes.
Two days after you stop smoking, your heart attack risk is lower and continues to decline over the next three months. You'll suddenly notice you don't need as much salt (thanks to a return in the sensitivity of your taste buds) - and the air smells fresh (now that your sense of smell has returned).
After the first month, you have fewer instances of that annoying, hacking smoker's cough because your bronchial tubes are starting to repair. Whenever your bronchial tubes are irritated, they produce excess mucus, so eliminate the cigarettes, and you say goodbye to the need to clear your throat constantly.
A few months later, you'll be taking the stairs without gasping for a breath. When you move more, your circulation will benefit more because the cigarettes haven't constricted your blood vessels. Just one cigarette reduces the blood flow throughout your body for an hour.
The health improvements continue long after you quit smoking. Your gift at the first anniversary of quitting is that your risk of coronary heart disease becomes half that of what you risked as a smoker.
Also the big one for most people. The sooner you quit smoking the less wrinkles you're going to have.
Smokers these days are very familiar without listing all the health disasters that are lurking in the future for smokers. People don't think about the health risks at the time they want a cigarette, it's just one more cigarette. What I find these days, it's when that very young person is looking up at them and asking, "why do you smoke, mommy?" or "why do you smoke, daddy?" that seems to get the ball rolling...
Did you know people quit smoking all the time? It's easy if you can get a little help.
