After You Quit Smoking Nicotine

If it is one of the questions I am asked the most over at the SuccessfullyStop forums, it is “What are the benefits of quitting smoking? What actually happens after you quit smoking nicotine?”

Well the truth may actually shock you. You can actually salvage a lot of the damage you have done, as long as you quit smoking nicotine now.

• 20 minutes after you quit nicotine, your heart rate slows and your blood pressure returns to normal..
• The carbon monoxide in your blood have dropped to a normal level with an eight to 12 hours. The fatigue, headaches, nausea, sleeplessness and flu-like symptoms caused by carbon monoxide in the blood will start to diminish.
• Your lungs will start to evict mucus within 24 hours and get rid of smoking nicotine buildup.
• Your sense of smell and taste will start to return within two days. Your risk of having a heart attack is lower in over the next three months will continue to improve.
• Just three days later you will have more energy as your bronchial tubes relax.
• Within just the first month your smokers cough will decline because your bronchial tubes are on the mend. Cigarettes irritate the bronchial tubes, so they produce excess mucus. you can say good-bye to that hacking smokers cough.
• Within just one year you half the danger of coronary heart disease you risked developing as a smoker. as smoking increases your heart rate, it is consistent and no longer on the roller coaster it was on every time you smoked a cigarette. You are no longer in danger of a heart attack every time you light up.
• Five years smoke-free and you have the same chance of having a stroke as a non-smoker.
• After 10 years your lungs a stronger and your chances of lung cancer are only half as great as cigarettes were still a part of your life.
• 15 years smoke-free and you have the same chance of having a heart attack as a non-smoker.

So as you can see, the sooner you quit smoking nicotine, the better your chances of of healing the damage you have done.