{"id":968,"date":"2006-10-18T01:07:12","date_gmt":"2006-10-18T00:07:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/2006\/10\/18\/what-happens-to-your-body-if-you-stop-smoking-right-now\/"},"modified":"2006-10-18T01:07:12","modified_gmt":"2006-10-18T00:07:12","slug":"what-happens-to-your-body-if-you-stop-smoking-right-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/2006\/10\/18\/what-happens-to-your-body-if-you-stop-smoking-right-now\/","title":{"rendered":"What Happens to Your body if you stop smoking Right now?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you are a smoker and were to stop smoking right now, <a href=\"http:\/\/healthbolt.net\/2006\/07\/19\/what-happens-to-your-body-if-you-stop-smoking-right-now\/\">this is what apparently would happen to your body<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>In 20 minutes<\/strong> your blood pressure will drop back down to normal.<\/li>\n<li><strong>In 8 hours<\/strong> the carbon monoxide (a toxic gas) levels in your blood stream will drop by half, and oxygen levels will return to normal.<\/li>\n<li><strong>In 48 hours<\/strong> 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.<\/li>\n<li><strong>In 72 hours<\/strong> your bronchial tubes will relax, and your energy levels will increase.<\/li>\n<li><strong>In 2 weeks<\/strong> your circulation will increase, and it will continue to improve for the next 10 weeks.<\/li>\n<li><strong>In three to nine months<\/strong> coughs, wheezing and breathing problems will dissipate as your lung capacity improves by 10%.<\/li>\n<li><strong>In 1 year<\/strong> your risk of having a heart attack will have dropped by half.<\/li>\n<li><strong>In 5 years<\/strong> your risk of having a stroke returns to that of a non-smoker.<\/li>\n<li><strong>In 10 years<\/strong> your risk of lung cancer will have returned to that of a non-smoker.<\/li>\n<li><strong>In 15 years<\/strong> your risk of heart attack will have returned to that of a non-smoker.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Via: <a href=\"http:\/\/xo.typepad.com\/blog\/2006\/10\/what_happens_to.html\">Rob<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/healthbolt.net\/2006\/07\/19\/what-happens-to-your-body-if-you-stop-smoking-right-now\/\">Healthbot<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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<\/p>\n<div class=\"clearfix\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"pull-left padding-top-25\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/2006\/10\/18\/what-happens-to-your-body-if-you-stop-smoking-right-now\/\" class=\"btn btn-theme\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;What Happens to Your body if you stop smoking Right now?&#8221;<\/span> <i class=\"fa fa-fw fa-long-arrow-right\"><\/i> <\/a>  <\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}