SMOKERS LUNG CANCER

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Lung cancer is the most common cancer in the world. Around 1.3 million new cases of lung cancer are diagnosed every year globally.

Most lung cancers are smoking-related. Although some people who have never smoked get lung cancer. The more you smoke cigarettes the more likely you are prone to have lung cancer and as soon as you stop smoking cigarettes the risk of having lung cancer starts to go down. So stop smoking now and live with a healthy lungs. Save your lungs.

NICOTINE WITHDRAWAL

Nicotine Withdrawal is one of the hardest things to deal with when quitting smoking. They say that nicotine withdrawal is the only reason why quitting smoking is very difficult to do. As you quit, You will feel a lot of symptoms from physical, mental and emotional. Do not worry as this is the normal process of Nicotine Withdrawal. Advise from your doctor is necessary for fast and easy recovery.

Battling from this phase in your life is definitely horrible and quite difficult but if you are going to believe and trust your self that you can do that… by using mind over matter method of quitting smoking, you will be recovering gradually which you did not notice that you are on the stage of it.

TIMELINE - WHAT WILL HAPPEN AFTER YOU STOP SMOKING?

After 20 minutes – blood pressure and pulse rate decrease drastically. Excessive sweating of the hands and feet.
After 8 hours – Carbon Monoxide in your blood stream goes down and your blood oxygen level will go back to normal.
After 24 hours – heart attack is decrease instantly.
After 48 hours – taste buds returns to normal. Able to taste food just like before when you were not smoking. Your sense of smell returns to normal as well.
After 2 weeks – breathing becomes easier. You can do walking, jogging or playing basketball without feeling of breathless as you go along with it. The Phlegm production returns to normal and will be coughing, wheezing fewer. You would notice that your lungs are starting back to normal as you can feel that your breathing is not that difficult compared before. Your lungs starts to recover from the nicotine you inhaled.
After one year to 10 years – Your Chance of having a heart disease or other certain lung problems decreases and sometimes chances are greatly reduced.
Quitting Smoking is just very easy to do… it is just Mind Over Matter that stopping you to quit smoking.