Quitting smoking is not easy at all. It requires strong faith and a huge amount of positivity and enthusiasm. If you want to stop, but you are not strong enough yet, look what happens to your body just 20 minutes after a person stops smoking. Perhaps the following information will help you to quit this harmful habit forever.
- For twenty minutes, the blood pressure comes down to normal.
- For eight hours the level of carbon monoxide (which is a poisonous gas) in the blood system reduces by half, while oxygen levels will normalize.
- In 2 days, the chances of having a heart attack decrease. All nicotine leaves the body and senses of taste and smell normalize.
- In 2-and-a-half days, the respiratory system becomes relaxed and the energy increases.
- In 2 weeks the blood circulation increases and it continues to improve over the next ten
- For three to nine months, heavy breathing, coughing and general problems with the respiratory organs decrease due to increasment of the capacity of the lungs by ten percent.
- In one year the risk of having a heart attack decreases twice as much.
- In five years, the risk of suffering a stroke becomes the same as in non-smokers.
- In ten years, the chance of having lung cancer becomes the same as for non-smokers.
- In fifteen years a person has an equal risk of suffering a heart attack as well as any other non-smoker.
What do you think, is it worth to quit smoking? The choice and the consequences of it are yours.
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