Quitting Time

Here are some interesting facts about what happens when you quit:

• In about two hours of discontinuing smoking, the nicotine is out of your blood stream, but it may take up to two days for the by-products of the nicotine to leave your body.

• Usually within six hours the pace of your heart will slow down and your blood pressure will drop to a certain extent but just by a little bit. It can take up to thirty days for your blood pressure to return to its normal level.

• In approximately twenty four hours, the carbon monoxide present in your body is removed from your system. This improves the effectiveness of your lungs.

• In about forty eight hours your sense of smell and taste improve. It takes about a week for them to return back to normal.

• Blood circulation in your body improves in about two months.

• It can take a few months after quitting before your lungs return to good health and can begin clearing up the mucus.

• The risk of getting lung diseases and chronic bronchitis are reduced.

• After fifteen years of ceasing smoking your chance of getting heart attacks and strokes is about the same as that of a person who has never smoked.

• Last but not least you save yourself a lot of money that would go into buying cigarettes!

Time to quit?