| If you are a smoker, the decision to stop smoking is | | | | to improving your health. The worst part of nicotine |
| one of the best decisions you will ever make. This is | | | | withdrawal symptoms will be over within the first |
| mostly because of the vast improvements that your | | | | month, and you will be able to focus more on |
| health will undergo. Some of these changes will occur | | | | continuing to improve your health. By this time, your |
| in as little as twenty minutes from the time you put out | | | | body will have cleansed your lungs of all the remaining |
| your last cigarette. Quitting may be difficult, but it will | | | | toxins in your mucus, so you'll notice a decrease in |
| certainly be worth the stop smoking health benefits. | | | | smoking-related coughing, sinus congestion, shortness |
| There are some short-term stop smoking health | | | | of breath, and fatigue. Two years after that last |
| benefits that you will be able to see almost right away. | | | | cigarette, your risk of coronary heart disease will have |
| Twenty minutes after your last cigarette is | | | | been cut in half and you'll be in much better health than |
| extinguished, you will see a drop in blood pressure and | | | | you were when you quit. |
| your pulse rate. The temperature of your hands and | | | | Five years later, your risk for a stroke will decrease. |
| feet will slowly increase to normal levels as your | | | | Ten years in, your risk for lung cancer will drop to half |
| body's blood circulation improves. Eight hours later, your | | | | of what it was when you were still smoking. Your risk |
| carbon monoxide levels will drop to normal and your | | | | of ulcers and cancers such as mouth, throat, |
| oxygen levels will increase to normal. Before the day is | | | | esophagus, bladder, kidney, and pancreas will |
| done, your risk of heart attack will decrease. At the | | | | decrease. And, finally, after fifteen years, your risk of |
| forty-eight hour mark, your nerve endings and lung cilia | | | | heart disease and even death will return to a level |
| will begin to regenerate and you'll be able to smell and | | | | comparable to people your age who have never |
| taste everything better. | | | | smoked. This proves that it's worth it to quit smoking |
| There are also some longer-term stop smoking health | | | | as soon as possible. So if you want to experience all |
| benefits. Over the next three months, your circulation | | | | of these stop smoking health benefits, quit smoking |
| and lung function will continue to improve. You'll find it | | | | and begin your journey to better health today. |
| easier to walk and exercise, which will also contribute | | | | |