THE BENEFITS OF QUITTING SMOKING
You will notice many benefits of quitting right away :
- Your breath, clothes, and hair will smell better
- Your sense of smell will return and food will taste better
- Your fingers and fingernails will slowly appear less yellow
- Your stained teeth will slowly become whiter
- Your home, work, and social life will also improve immediately:
- Your children will be less likely to start smoking themselves
- It will be easier and cheaper to find an apartment
- You will miss fewer work days, or you may have an easier time getting a job
- The constant search for a place to smoke when you're out will be over
- Friends will be more willing to be in your car or home
- You will have more money available
- Some health benefits begin almost immediately too, but every week, month, and year without tobacco use only improves your health.
- Within 20 minutes of quitting - your blood pressure and pulse rate drop to normal and the temperature of your hands and feet increases to normal.
- Within 8 hours of quitting - your blood carbon monoxide levels drop and your blood oxygen levels increase, both to normal levels.
- Within 24 hours of quitting - your risk of a sudden heart attack decreases.
- Within 48 hours of quitting - nerve endings begin to regenerate and your senses of smell and taste begin to return to normal.
To Be Continued....
