Thursday, March 5, 2009

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.

3 comments:

  1. Thanks for sharing the useful information on the quit smoking. Smoking is not good for the health it can make the life hell.

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