What happens when you quit smoking (Timeline)
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What happens to your body when you stop smoking?
What happens to your body when you quit smoking and the change in probabilities of dying from certain conditions.
Although some find their motivation to quit with quotes, you may also find inspiring looking at this more scientific data, based in different studies on how stop smoking can affect your body and save you from suffering some horrible diseases.
TIMELINE
After…
20 minutes
Your blood pressure and heart rate goes back to normal.
8 hours
Oxygen levels will increase to normal, the carbon monoxide levels in your blood drops. The tissues on your lungs begin to get more oxygen.
What happens after 1 day
The risk of heart attack and heart disease begins to decrease. It gets easier to make exercise.
3 days
Your senses of taste and smell begin to recover. Your lung capacity to fill with air improves. It is one of the highest points of anxiety due to nicotine dependence. Nerve cells begin to self-repair.
What happens after 1 month
Coughing and shortness of breath begin to decrease, doing cardiovascular exercise becomes easier because your circulation improves. Your skin begins to improve, the withdrawal syndrome begins to disappear. Lung capacity can improve up to 30%.
9 months
You are less prone to simple respiratory diseases, decrease cough. You feel more energetic and your overall health improves.
What happens after 1 year
The risk of coronary heart disease and heart attack decreases by 50%.
5 years
The risk of dying from lung cancer is cut in half. The possibility of a cerebral infarction is diminished.
10 years
The risk of having cancer of the pancreas, mouth or throat is significantly reduced.
What happens with your body after 20 years
The risk of dying from smoking-related diseases (coronary heart disease or some types of cancer) becomes the same as a person who has never smoked in his life.
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