WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU QUIT SMOKING... 20 Minutes After You Quit Less than 20 minutes after your last cigarette, your heart rate will already start to drop back towards normal levels Two Hours After You Quit After two hours without a cigarette, your heart rate and blood pressure will have decreased to near normal levels. The tips of your fingers and toes may start to feel warm. 12 Hours After You Quit In just 12 hours after quitting smoking, the carbon monoxide in your body decreases to lower levels, and your blood oxygen levels increase to normal 24 Hours After You Quit Just one full day after quitting smoking, your risk for heart attack will already have begun to drop. While youre not quite out of the woods yet, youre on your way! 48 Hours After You Quit After 48 hours without a cigarette, your nerve endings will start to re-grow, and your ability to smell and taste is enhanced Three Days After You Quit At this point, the nicotine will be completely out of your body. Unfortunately, that means that the symptoms of nicotine withdrawal will generally peak around this time. You may experience some physical symptoms such as headaches, nausea, or cramps. Two to Three Weeks After You Quit After a couple of weeks, youll be able to exercise and perform physical activities without feeling winded and sick. This is due to a number of regenerative processes that will begin to occur in your body; your circulation will improve, and your lung function will also improve significantly. After two or three weeks without smoking, your lungs may start to feel clear, and youll start breathing easier For most smokers, withdrawal symptoms dissipate about two weeks after quitting. One to Nine Months After You Quit Starting about a month after you quit, your lungs begin to repair. Inside them, the cilia—the tiny, hair-like organelles that push mucus out—will start to repair themselves and function properly again. With the cilia now able to do their job, they will help to reduce your risk of infection. With properly functioning lungs, your coughing and shortness of breath may continue to decrease dramatically. Even for the heaviest smokers, withdrawal symptoms will go away no more than several months after quitting. One Year After You Quit The one-year mark is a big one. After a year without smoking, your risk for heart disease is lowered by 50 percent compared to when you were still smoking. Five Years After You Quit After five to 15 years of being smoke-free, your risk of having a stroke is the same as someone who doesnt smoke 10 Years After You Quit It may take 10 years, but if you quit, eventually your risk of dying from lung cancer will drop to half that of a smokers. Ten years after quitting, your risk of cancer of the mouth, throat, esophagus, bladder, kidney, and pancreas also decreases. 15 Years After You Quit Fifteen years of non-smoking will bring your risk of heart disease back to the same level as someone who doesnt smoke
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