What Happens To Your Body When You Quit Smoking?
By Tom Dainty
Smokers are always being told that it is really bad for them to smoke and that they are doing lots of harm to themselves when they smoke. However, if you ask smokers; What happens to your body when you quit smoking? They are at a loss as to the changes they will experience.
For starters, your body is not designed to smoke. Your body was designed to live and inhaling load after load of toxic hot fumes is not a pastime that your body likes. So one way of looking at this is rather than asking what happens to your body when you quit smoking, one should ask what doesn't happen to my body when I quit smoking?
One of the main things that nicotine does is stimulate your body. It raises blood pressure, heart rate and breathing rate. It whizzes your body up a little every time you have a smoke. When you quit smoking this rollercoaster of alertness, blood pressure, heart rate and breathing rate stops, resulting in a much more calm and stable level of alertness or physical anxiety.
Another thing that happens to your body when you quit smoking is that your blood flow improves. Years of smoking has stressed your circulation and the peripheral blood flow is slowed by constricted blood vessels. The constriction is caused by smoking, so when you quit, the circulation improves. Not only does the circulation improve but also the blood itself performs better as it doesn't have to cart a load of carbon monoxide around your body. The carbon monoxide comes from smoking but quickly dissipates after you quit.
Another thing that happens to your body when you quit smoking is that any bronchial inflammation will subside. You may suffer from a smoker's cough. This is caused by inflammation in the lung tissue that in turn is caused by the irritation of the lung tissue from tobacco smoke. The irritation also causes excessive mucus to be secreted which rattles around in you when you cough. This should all subside once you quit.
Of the many wonderful things that happen to you when you quit smoking, reducing the likelihood of stroke and heart attack should be high on anyone's list of useful benefits. Smokers are as likely to suffer a stroke as non-smokers after only 5 years off the cigarettes. Your chances of heart disease also plummet once you quit. In fact, after 15 years, the risks of heart disease in ex-smokers is as low as it is in non-smokers.
One final thing that happens to you when you quit smoking is the reduced likelihood of contracting cancer. Most people think that smokers only really run the risk of contracting lung cancer but there is more to it than that. Smokers run a seriously increased risk of throat cancer, mouth cancer, tongue cancer, oesophageal cancer, kidney cancer, liver cancer, pancreatic cancer, bowel cancer, bladder cancer and stomach cancer. Many of them have very poor treatment rates and are very painful. Stopping smoking reduces the risks associated with all of these potential cancers.
So, what happens to your body when you quit smoking is pretty much all positive. There are reduced risks of smoking related diseases, which are nearly all fatal. There are improvements in general health through the improved environment that you body exists in when it is not puffing away on smokes. Finally, there are some other positives in the sense that your complexion will improve, the brightness of your eyes, the colour of your skin will improve and of course your bank balance will also have a positive. All in all, I can't think of a good reason why anyone should think about not quitting smoking.
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