After 20 minutes:
* Your blood pressure falls back towards normal.
* your pulse rate also tends to fall back to normal.
* Your hands and feet tend to warm up to normal.
After 8 hours:
* Carbon-monoxide in your blood stream drops towards normal.
* Oxygen levels increases toward normal in your system.
After 2 days:
* Your heart attack risk starts to decrease.
* Better level of taste and smell for you.
After 3 days:
* Your lung functions get better.
* Breathing is smoother.
* Walking becomes easier for you.
After 2 weeks to 3 months:
* Improved general circulation.
* Up to 30% better lung function.
After 6 months:
* Less coughing.
* More energy.
* Diminished shortness of breath.
* Reduced sinus congestion.
* Fewer infections.
In less than one year:
* Your risk of having an heart attack is cut in half from when you smoked.
After 10 years:
* Your risk of getting lung cancer is now cut in half from what it was when you smoked.
After 15 years:
* Your risk of having an heart attack is now the same as if you never smoked.
Those were the health benefits of quitting smoking. Here are now the social benefits.
Soon after you quit smoking you will have no more:
* Yellow teeth
* Brown and yellow stained fingers
* Bad breath
* Stinking clothes
* Smelly ashtrays
* Cigarette burned furniture
* Ashes in your car
* Stale air in your house and yellowed curtains
* Being sent to smoke outside
* Disapproval of loved ones
The financial benefits are obvious ($3000 to $5000 per year per smoker wasted).
You will have more money for:
* Education
* Mortgage
* Car payment
* Entertainment
* Holidays (We now travel to a foreign county ounce a year. Recently we went to Vietnam, St-Pierre & Miquelon, and Newfoundland)
* Etc.
Finally the most important benefit of quitting smoking:
* You will live a fuller and happier life, free from the slavery of nicotine. This is the way it has been for me.
