Have you ever wondered what will life be like after you quit smoking?
I used to wonder the same thing. My cigarettes were like a good friend. Always there to comfort me when I felt stress or pressure, or maybe when I was unsure of what to do or just needed something to help me "make it" through the day.
However that is just a lie told to me by my brain that was addicted to nicotine. The reality of it all is this. The benefits of not smoking are so many but when I was addicted to cigarettes I just did not want to know of these benefits. Ever wonder what happens 20 minutes after you quit smoking?
Smoking always results in high blood pressure which is not good for the heart and it increases the risk of a heart attack. But the minute we quit smoking, the risk is minimized and the blood pressure returns to normal. How about 10 hours after you quit smoking?
10 hours after a person quits smoking the carbon monoxide in our system drops to half of what is normal for us when we are smokers. Smoking is a major pollutant in our system that creates serious adverse effects on our cognitive skills as well as many other very bad health issues. Oxygen on the other hand is a very necessary component of life, without it we just cannot survive for very long at all.
What happens with a high level of carbon monoxide in our body is the ability of our lungs to take in oxygen is greatly reduced which in turn creates numerous serious health problems, makes it harder for our body to absorb the oxygen that we so desperately need for our very survival.
Our energy levels increase substantially when we decrease the amount of carbon monoxide in our bodies. We have then given our bodies the ability to absorb oxygen much more efficiently.
In just 24 short hours after you have quit smoking an amazing thing begins to happen. Most people that are used to smoking a pack or more per day will notice a substantial increase in energy. The normal tiredness that they are used to experiencing after a short physical exertion will change to quick energy and recovery now that they have quit smoking.
In only 48 hours people being to experience a whole new life as the nicotine is being flushed from their body. Sometimes this may result in some difficult feelings as the toxins are coming out of solution in our tissues. Things such as headaches, stomach aches and overall ill feelings, they do not last long however and when you get on the other side of this period of time the challenges are so worth it.
After only two weeks and up to six months the poor circulation is replaced with good circulation and most people will notice an improvement in their skin and issues with being cold in the hands and feet which is normally associated with poor circulation.
After a whole year of not smoking a person has significantly reduced their risk of heart attack. European Union figures reveal that 650,000 Europeans die each year from tobacco related diseases.
Around 5.4 millions deaths a year are caused by tobacco. Smoking is set to kill 6.5 million people in 2015 and 8.3 million people in 2030, with the biggest rise in low and middle income countries. Every 6.5 seconds a current or former smoker dies, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).
10 years after you have quit smoking your risk of death from lung cancer has been cut in half. Most cancer death in 1999 was lung cancer directly attributed to smoking. In 15 years after a person has quit smoking, even a person that was at one time a chain smoker, can now live a normal life much as a person that has never even smoked.
A very wise man I knew once asked me this question. "If you could drive the car of your dreams right now, but it would be the only car you would ever have for the rest of your life, how would you take care of it?" Would you keep it clean, only put the best fuel and oil in it or would you treat it the way you treat the car you drive now?
Would you wash it up every week, polish it, have the inside detailed regularly? Or would you just let it go like the car you drive now? Would you let your kids eat and drink in the back seat? Or would food and drinks be off limits in your car? The only car you would ever have for the rest of your life.
Then he asked "What if you only had one body for the rest of your life...? How would you treat it?"
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