A Timeline Of Your Body After You Quit
Smoking
If you’ve quit smoking
or planning on doing so, then you ought to know that your body is going to
transform withing minutes of your last cigarette. Here’s a timeline of your
body after you quit smoking.
20 Minutes: Blood pressure and pulse returns to normal, hands
and feet become warm again.
12 Hours: Carbon monoxide level reduces and oxygen level increases in your blood. Will feel a lot better.
24 Hours: Risk of heart attack reduces significantly.
48 Hours: Nerve endings regrow and your sense of taste and smell will return.
3 Months: Blood circulation and lung functioning will have great improvement.
9 Months: Less or no congestion, fatigue or shortness of breath. Will breath more easily.
1 Year: Coronary heart disease risk is halved automatically.
5 Years: Your risk of strokes returns to normal; level before smoking first cigarette.
10 Years: Risk of developing smoking related cancer is as good as non-smoker.
15 Years: Risk of heart disease and natural death is normal, the same as a non-smoker.
12 Hours: Carbon monoxide level reduces and oxygen level increases in your blood. Will feel a lot better.
24 Hours: Risk of heart attack reduces significantly.
48 Hours: Nerve endings regrow and your sense of taste and smell will return.
3 Months: Blood circulation and lung functioning will have great improvement.
9 Months: Less or no congestion, fatigue or shortness of breath. Will breath more easily.
1 Year: Coronary heart disease risk is halved automatically.
5 Years: Your risk of strokes returns to normal; level before smoking first cigarette.
10 Years: Risk of developing smoking related cancer is as good as non-smoker.
15 Years: Risk of heart disease and natural death is normal, the same as a non-smoker.
So that’s how
long it takes for your system to completely recover from smoking. And by the
end of it all you would’ve saved a lot of money as well.
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