Smoking releases abundances of chemicals into your body. The result isn’t only limited to your lung but also to heart, blood vessels, and other structural too. Lets know Amazing Facts of Stopping Smoking.
No problem even if you have been smoking from years you can always reverse these effects and experience health benefits from the first hours you can stop smoking to the decades after you quit.
What happens when a person quit smoking?
If a person quits smoking then what happens in the body of a person in the next minute, hour, day, week, months.
- After 20 minutes:
The blood pressure and pulse will start to return to more normal levels.
- 8 Hours after:
Carbon monoxide levels reduce and oxygen level starts to increase to a more normal level.
- 24 Hours after
Amazing Facts of Stopping Smoking
One day sober, there have already decreased your risk of a heart attack. This is because of reduced constriction of veins and arteries as well as increased oxygen levels which boast heart activity.
- 48 Hours after
Your previously damaged nerve endings have finally start re-growing. You may also start to notice your new improved senses that were previously dulled due to smoking
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- 72 Hours after
You will find yourself breathing more easily because your lungs have started to relax and open up which air exchange between carbon dioxide and oxygen easier.
- One week after
It is important to reach 1-week milestone smokers who successfully make it one week without smoking are nine times as likely to successfully quit.
- 2 weeks after
You may start to notice breathing is easier than ever. Thanks to improved circulation and oxygenation.
- 1 month after
Just one short month no one whole month full of health.
No problem, even if a person has been smoking from years, you can always reverse these effects and experience health benefits from the first hours you can stop smoking to the decades after you quit.
We need to remember this sentence that “Life is short, make it last”.
Ericsson peris
Notre Dame University Bangladesh
Department of English
Member of ARE writers Community