What Happens to Your Body When You Quit Smoking
May 31, 2007 by Kristen King
Filed under Women's Health
Wade over at Healthbolt has an awesome post with some even more compelling reasons to quit smoking today, on World No Tobacco Day 2007.
I think one of the main reasons it’s so hard to quit smoking is because all the benefits of quitting and all the dangers of continuing seem very far away. Well, here’s a little timeline about some of the more immediate effects of quitting smoking and how that will affect your body RIGHT NOW.
- In 20 minutes your blood pressure will drop back down to normal.
- In 8 hours the carbon monoxide (a toxic gas) levels in your blood stream will drop by half, and oxygen levels will return to normal.
Read the rest of Wade’s article to find out the effects of quitting smoking 48 hours through 15 years after you do it.
Contents © Copyright 2007 Kristen King
It’s so hard to get a smoker to stop smoking. All the facts are there right before his eyes. But it really requires will power.
Thanks for the link!
Jesus enabled me to quit with NO urges…just the facts…it was a miracle!
Allen Carr’s The easy way to stop smoking book worked for me. The book is amazing in how it reprograms your mind while your reading it.
Quit on Thursday. No desire to turn back. Having back pain. Hey all you long term quitters, How long do cravings last? I still think about smoking.