If you quit smoking
If you stopped smoking this minute, this is what will happen:
- In 20 minutes time, at
- Your blood pressure is dropping
- Your pulse rate is coming down to normal
- Your hands and feet are coming back to normal temperature
- Later on, by
- The carbon monoxide poison levels in your blood are dropping to normal
- The oxygen levels in your blood have risen to normal
- Tomorrow
- your chances of a heart attack are starting to go down
- By
- you're starting to smell and taste things you couldn't before
- On
- your breathing is getting easier as your bronchial (lung) tubes relax
- your lungs start taking in more oxygen
- After 3 months, by
- Your blood is moving round your body quicker and better
- Your lungs are working 30% better than they were
- Between and
- You've stopped coughing
- You're not feeling so tired
- Your nose and throat aren't blocked up any more
- You're not so out of breath
- The lining of your lungs is regrowing normally
- You've got lots more energy
- If you're a bloke - your 'parts' like your penis are starting to work better (joy)
- You've cut your chances of death from lung cancer by 50%
- Your chances of getting heart disease have significantly decreased
- Your chances of death from lung cancer are almost the same as a non-smokers
- All your pre-cancerous cells have been replaced
- Risk of other cancers (mouth, throat, bladder, kidney, cervix) all goes down as well
