The Smokers Body
This section covers
what happens to a smoker's body after they
stop smoking.
An often wondered question amongst those who want to
stop
smoking, is...
 When I give up
smoking, how long
will it be before I start to see
any effect?
After
stopping smoking, your body
starts to recover almost immediately.
Clinical research over many years, has shown that when
someone does stop smoking, their
body has a tremendous ability to recover
from the damage that smoking has caused to their body over the years.
Of course, the time it takes to heal will vary from person
to person, depending on age, amount smoked, the number of years spent
smoking, the number of years as a smoker etc, but
the following chart should give you an idea of the timescales involved.
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20 minutes after
giving up
smoking |
- Your circulation starts
to improve, and the extremities return to
normal temperature.
- Your blood pressure comes
back down to that of a non-smoker
- Your heart rate returns
to normal
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8 - 10 hours after
giving up
smoking |
- The level of oxygen
carried in the blood goes back to normal
- The levels of CO (Carbon
Monoxide) in your blood drops by 50%
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12 - 24 hours after
giving
up smoking |
- The likelihood of
coronary problems start to diminish
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1 day after
giving up
smoking |
- The level of CO in your
blood drops to virtually normal levels
- Waste products are
expelled from the lungs through increased
coughing
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2 days after
giving up
smoking |
- The blood is virtually
free of nicotine
- Food will taste better as
the tastebuds recover
- Nerve fibres damaged by
smoking begin to mend
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3 days after
giving up
smoking |
- Less effort is required
to breathe, as the airways begin to open,
and the lungs become more efficient
- Energy increases as more
oxygen is made available to the body
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4 days after
giving up
smoking |
- As you have more
'get-up-and-go', you may feel hungrier than
before.
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1 week after
giving up
smoking |
- If smoking caused your
sleep to be disturbed, this should return
back to normal by now
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Up to a year after
giving up
smoking |
- Your lungs continue to
return to normal
- Your circulatory system
continues to recover
- Your 'get-up-and-go'
continues to build
- The likelihood of
respiratory problems such as infection
continue to diminish
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1 year after
giving up
smoking |
- The risk of a heart
attack is around 50% of that of a smoker.
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5 – 10 years…after
giving up
smoking |
- The risk of cancer of the
mouth and lungs drops to about a half of the
risk of a someone who continues to smoke
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10 – 15 years…after
giving
up smoking |
- The likelihood of
coronary problems and strokes drops to
virtually the same as someone who has never
smoked.
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