Will your health improve after you quit smoking?
Smoking is extremely hazardous to the health of the smoker, not to mention friends and families. Smokers are losing money and years off their life in order to sustain this addiction. Nicotine sticks like tar to lung tissue. It can also be linked to such diseases as lung cancer and emphysema. Studies have shown that second-hand smoke is just as much, if not more harmful, than directly inhaling a cigarette.
If you quit smoking, your health will begin to improve dramatically as nicotine leaves your system. Nicotine is a bait to hook the smoker. But cigarettes contain not only nicotine, but such harmful substances as tar and carbon monoxide. Also there are many other chemicals inhaled by a cigarette smoker with each puff. Quit smoking and your health will improve as well as the health of the people around you.
Smoking has a cumulative effect on the health of a smoker. People who smoke for several years have more harmful effects. If a smoker quits right now, he or she will benefit in some ways almost immediately. The blood pressure and heart rate will improve after some minutes. The harmful effects on the lungs will start to improve within a week. That does not mean that the lungs will be healthy and clear of all of the harmful substances. This takes more time, but there will be some improvement in the lungs very quickly. There will be significant improvement in the lungs of a smoker who has quit the habit and kicked the addiction within three months. Your stamina will increase. The food will taste better. However it is challenging for a smoker to quit smoking, every smoker should try to stop immediately.






February 8th, 2008 at 2:50 am
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