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Your Cold Turkey Count Down

Counting Down the Days to Freedom – Your Quit Smoking Timetable

The human body is a remarkable thing. Although smoking is a powerful physical addiction that alters your body, just days after your last cigarette, your body begins to repair itself. Even after decades of smoking, your body will bounce back and you'll feel better than ever. Knowing that it's only a matter of time can help you stay motivated to quit smoking when things get rough.

Here is a basic timetable of what you can expect when you quit smoking.

• Less than an hour after you take your last puff, your heart rate and blood pressure drop to non-smoker levels.

• About 8 hours after your last smoke, the nicotine level in your body is reduced to almost nothing. It will drop to about 6-7%, which is a 93% reduction from just several hours before.

• In 2 days to about a week, your physical cravings will be at their worst. They'll peak sometime during this time, and then they weaken and fade. This is the toughest time and you should be vigilant to resist temptation. By the tenth day or so, you'll have something like two cravings a day, each about thirty seconds (although this varies from person to person).

• During this same time, your lungs begin to repair themselves. You'll feel that you're breathing easier and you'll have more lung capacity than you ever did while you were smoking.

• By the tenth day, you'll have no more withdrawal symptoms. All of the chemicals contained in cigarettes will be flushed from your system and your body has adjusted fully to the absence of nicotine.

• Within the first few months after you quit, your body flushes itself completely of all the nicotine that remains in your body. Within 2-3 months, you're nicotine free and the nicotine metabolites which the drug is chemically broken down to will have passed out of your body.

• The lungs will continue to repair themselves for almost the next year. By 9 months, your lungs cilia will have grown back and you'll have no smoking-related respiratory problems.

It sounds easy, doesn't it? Well, don't be fooled. During the peak of your withdrawal symptoms, it's very hard to resist the urge to smoke. Cravings may come at many times throughout the day and if you're a heavy smoker, withdrawal symptoms can be quite severe.

Many people who are trying to quit seek outside help. You can use nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) options such as the nicotine patch to help you reduce physical symptoms if they're severe. NRT methods have high success rates and vary in price and availability (some are only available by prescription).

You can also combat cravings through stress reduction techniques like deep breathing and meditation. If you know your triggers well and recognize that nagging voice in the back of your head telling you to smoke, this helps a great deal as well.

It's hard to quit smoking, but people do it every day and you can too.

It's Dangerous To Smoke!

The Dangers of Smoking – Brains Up in Smoke!

You’ve probably heard all the warnings about the dangers of cigarettes, but it’s important to understand the specifics that can happen when you take your health into your own hands.

Addiction. One of the greatest dangers of smoking is its addictive nature. Cigarettes are filled with nicotine which has been found to be as addictive as narcotics. You can get addicted to cigarettes from smoking anywhere from 10-100, so it really doesn’t take that long. And once you’re addicted, it’s much harder to avoid health problems.

Cancer. Possibly the most widely known health danger related to smoking is the development of cancer. Lung cancer is one of the most obvious forms and people who smoke are 25 times more likely to develop than nonsmokers.

But people who smoke also have a higher risk of bladder, blood, colon, esophagus, liver, stomach, trachea, and actually any part of your body.

Heart Disease. People who smoke have a two to four times the risk of developing heart disease. This can be related to damaging your blood vessels, causing your blood pressure to go up, and causing your heart rate to increase.

In addition, smoking actually can damage the heart muscle itself increasing your risk of heart attack. Increasing your risk of heart disease also increases your risk of stroke – bleeding in the brain that can cause permanent damage and can even be fatal.

Respiratory Disease. When you smoke, you increase your risk of developing disease related to your respiratory system. Smoking is the leading cause of emphysema and constricted airway disease. When you smoke you have a very good chance of developing chronic bronchitis or COPD.

Fertility and Pregnancy. Smoking can reduce your ability to get pregnant and if you do smoke while pregnant you can increase your baby’s risk of low birth weight and birth defects.

Oral Health. Smoking causes your teeth to become yellow and stained with nicotine, but it can also damage your gums and teeth and lead to tooth loss and gingivitis. You can also develop “hairy tongue” which is an extreme form of halitosis, or bad breath.

Diabetes. Smoking can actually cause Type 2 diabetes –your risk of developing it is as much as 40% higher when you smoke. Diabetes leads to many health problems and can even be fatal.

The good news is that quitting smoking can help you to stop and even reverse many of these health problems. Within ten years of quitting smoking, your health risks decrease by half. But the sooner you quit the better because some damage is permanent.

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