Health Benefits Of Quitting Smoking - By: David Falken

Quitting smoking is quite a difficult thing to experience. Staying in a positive state of mind will help you succeed. A good way to reinforce your desire to quit is learning about the actual health benefits that you will gain from giving up cigarettes. Here is a short list of only a fraction of the positive things that will happen to your body over the course of the first year without cigarettes.

-- 20 minutes after quitting smoking, your body temperature, heart rate and blood pressure all return to normal levels.

-- Eight hours later, oxygen levels in your bloodstream increase while carbon monoxide levels decrease.

-- One day after quitting, your chance of a sudden heart attack or stroke decreases.

-- After two days, nerve endings begin to regrow all throughout the body. Your senses of taste and smell begin to improve.

-- Between two weeks and three months, circulation and blood flow begins to improve. Breathing becomes easier as the lungs begin to heal themselves.

-- Between one and nine months, coughing and shortness of breath will decrease dramatically. You will find it is easier to breath because of less sinus congestion and notice that most of your senses are returning to normal.

-- After twelve months, your chance for heart disease is decreased to about half of that of a smoker. Lungs continue to heal and breathing becomes alot easier.

These are only some of the many benefits that your body will gain only after a single year. Your body will continue to naturally heal itself. Remember to get plenty of exercise to increase the healing process and get many other added benefits. Keep a positive attitude through this and you should be able to give up smoking for good. Make your own list of ways in which your health has improved, and put it some place where you are constantly reminded of the benefits.

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