Although most smokers already know the harm of this bad habit, quitting it is a difficult decision in their eyes, or so they picture themselves.
But, on the other hand, the health benefits that a person can make when he or she leaves smoking may be more powerful than the narration of the diseases that afflict him when he continues to practice the destructive habit.
Many health experts follow the method of "evangelization" instead of "intimidation" when they advise smokers to quit smoking.
Doctors say that the state of the body begins to "immediately" improve after quitting smoking, and increase the gains the longer the period of departure from cigarettes, namely:
- After 20 minutes: The pulse returns to its normal state due to a decrease in the proportion of nicotine, which narrows blood vessels.
- After two hours: feel warm in your hands and feet and regulates blood pressure, as blood returns to the flow in these areas after the arrival of difficult to narrow the blood vessels.
- After 12 hours: the rate of oxygen in the blood begins to improve, because of the decline of the proportion of carbon monoxide absorbed by the body of cigarettes and replace oxygen, a poison gas.
- A day after: The risk of heart attack and heart disease decreases significantly, after the regularity of the pulse and blood pressure and oxygen.
- After two days: regain your ability to smell and taste correctly, where smoking affects the nerves associated with the two senses, and this effect decreases after 48 hours.
- After 3 days, the body completely disposes of all the nicotine that it absorbs and shows the symptoms of withdrawal, the most important of which is increased irritability, mood swings and severe headaches.
- After a month: You will feel a marked improvement in the performance of the lungs, in terms of ease and smooth breathing and lack of cough even with effort.
- After 9 months: the decline in lung disease due to improved cilia condition responsible for expulsion of foreign bodies and secretion of mucus, which inhibits the work of parasites.
- After a year: coronary artery disease (CHD) has been reduced by 50 percent, as a result of all the past positives.
After 10 years: lung cancer has been reduced to 50 percent, with the body repairing lung cells that have been damaged by smoking over the years.
After 20 years: Your health condition is like that of a person who has never smoked.
