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Darren Straight
What Happens to Your body if you stop smoking Right now?
If you are a smoker and were to stop smoking right now, this is what apparently would happen to your body:
- 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.
- In 48 hours your chance of having a heart attack will have decreased. All nicotine will have left your body. Your sense of taste and smell will return to a normal level.
- In 72 hours your bronchial tubes will relax, and your energy levels will increase.
- In 2 weeks your circulation will increase, and it will continue to improve for the next 10 weeks.
- In three to nine months coughs, wheezing and breathing problems will dissipate as your lung capacity improves by 10%.
- In 1 year your risk of having a heart attack will have dropped by half.
- In 5 years your risk of having a stroke returns to that of a non-smoker.
- In 10 years your risk of lung cancer will have returned to that of a non-smoker.
- In 15 years your risk of heart attack will have returned to that of a non-smoker.
3 thoughts on “What Happens to Your body if you stop smoking Right now?”
mondine October 19, 2006 at 9:23 am
Having done this a couple of times, I can tell you that after about 48 hours, you’re ready to choke the life out the next person that asks “How’s it going?”.
Smoking saves lives. 🙂
zafar November 1, 2006 at 9:50 pm
and if you keep smoking, after 15 years you go to your own funeral!
Luis September 28, 2014 at 8:46 am
As he put it, “You understand the Wayne Gretzky line, ‘I don’t skate to where the puck is, I skate to where it will be. Not surprisingly, a current poll finds that 81% here favor this kind of move. You can use them in trains, planes, pubs, office, restaurants and anywhere else.