Reviewing your quit smoking timeline

“Leaving aside all the crusading, there is a great desire in the air to throw away the cigarette once and for all.”

Everybody reads the statuary warning “Smoking is injurious to health” while buying his or her daily dose of cigarettes. Still they keep ignoring it and end up killing themselves, puff by puff.

What seems to me that the biggest secret to quit smoking is to actually have the inner DESIRE to do it? If you have that aspiration for quitting in you then only it is possible to make a quit smoking timeline successful.

To most people quitting smoking seem so tough because the first few days are really too difficult to handle. In that case, the smoker who is trying to quit should focus on the good things that will happen after those testing days.

When you review your quit smoking timeline it helps you in getting clarity about the changes happening during your quit process and helps you recognize many of the hidden benefits.

Here are some startling revelations about smoking which may encourage you to stick to your quit smoking timeline

· Cigarette smoke contains more than 4,000 chemicals, of which forty-three are known to cause cancer.

· According to a survey, smoking causes about 21 percent of all deaths from heart disease, 86 percent of deaths from lung cancer, and 81 percent of all deaths from chronic lung disease.

Whenever you quit, it should be your idea. Think that you are doing it for yourself. Discuss within yourself, simply reason yourself that you don't want lung cancer, and all the related diseases.

Simply pen-down a list of reasons for stopping and make a quit smoking timeline.

If smokers know how better they will feel and how their health will improve and have an irrefutable time line for those things can be an incentive for sticking to the quit smoking timeline.

Here I would like to mention some of medically proven steps to stick to your quit smoking timeline and finally quit smoking.

· After twenty minutes of quitting your blood pressure and pulse rate will drop to normal.

· After eight hours of successful quitting the level of carbon monoxide in the blood decreases by as much as half. The oxygen level in the blood raises and reaches to normal.

· After 2 days your body will be nicotine free and your ability to taste and smell gets better. Your nerve endings start to grow again.

· In just a few months, your lungs will begin to function more efficiently (maybe by 30%) and blood circulation gets improved. Subsequently, the physical activities become easier.

· After one year you will notice a decrease in coughing, sinus problems, tiredness and shortness of breath. Efficiency of lungs improves and you feel more active.

· After five successful years your chances of getting any of the diseases like lung, mouth and throat cancer or stroke is decreased.

· After ten years of being smoke free your chances of dying of lung cancer is the same as that of a non-smoker. Also, the risk of having cancer decreases further.

· After fifteen successful years of not smoking your risk of having heart attack and developing coronary disease is equal to a non-smoker.

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