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When You Quit Smoking What Happens To Your Body If smoking creates massive health problems to the human body, what happens to your body when you quit smoking? The effects that your body goes through are part of a healing process. Just from one single smoke to the next one your body begins TRYING to revert back to its original healthy state and over a couple of weeks if someone has been smoke free the positive effects show even more clearly. 15-20 minutes after you have just finished smoking a cigarette the body starts healing itself. The chemicals from cigarettes are a toxin and the body begins to rid itself of these chemicals. After a couple of weeks of from not smoking the toxic carbon monoxide levels begin to normalize and the overall blood circulation increases throughout the body and begins to flow more easily and naturally compared to the everyday smoker. The senses start to show signs of healing as well, both taste and smell. You will find that your body starts to react in many different ways. This is its own way of coping with the fresh new life it is receiving after being damaged by smoking. The digestive health, respiratory health, circulatory, and mental health go through many changes. You may suffer from a short period of heart burn or indigestion, nausea, gas, diarrhea and or constipation. This is how the digestive system begins to heal itself. These symptoms only last for a small period of time and shouldn’t last for a long. Respiratory health: You could find yourself with heavy sinus congestion, coughing with phlegm, which occurs due to the clearing of toxins from the cilia in the lungs. Lack of concentration, headaches, irritability and depression may become present and stress levels can show a slight increase. Mood swings and attitude changes begin to fluctuate more frequently. These are all signs of withdrawals symptoms and the body clearing itself from nicotine. It can take approximately 2-3 days for the body to clear itself from the nicotine completely.
Side Note: An informative interesting video on what happens when you quit smoking
Some interesting facts that you may have not known regarding what your body goes through after you smoked your last cigarette. After 20 minutes of smoking your last cigarette your blood pressure, body temperature and pulse drops to its normal state. About 8 hours after you have quit smoking the carbon monoxide levels are back to normal and oxygen levels are increased to the original state. Within 24 hours after you have quit smoking your chances of having a heart attack are decreased and within 48 hours nerve endings start to replenish and grow, along with increased sense of smell and taste. In a couple of months overall body circulation increase allowing walking to become easier and less strain on the lungs shows about 25-30% increase in functionality. The short term numbers show great progress in becoming healthy again and regaining proper function of the entire body. But what about long term effects? Here's what you can expect: In about 4-5 years after the last cigarette smoked, the risk of having a stroke is reduced/equal to a nonsmoker, the risk of having cancer of the esophagus, throat and mouth drops down to half of what it is compared to a regular smoker. Looking at 10-15 years down the road after the quit date, lung cancer death rate becomes equivalent to a nonsmoker and coronary heart disease becomes almost nonexistent. Although withdrawal symptoms may fight back in extreme ways, the long and short term benefits of quitting smoking clearly outweighs the reasons to keep smoking. This is looking at it from a personal and health perspective only, there are many other areas to explore which can support the benefits of becoming a nonsmoker other than being health related.
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