When you start thinking about quitting to smoke, a lot of questions comes to mind - this article will answer the five most common questions on smoking cessation.
What happens to your weight when you quit smoking?
Answer:
Nicotine in cigarette smoke means that your metabolism is a bit inflated. Most will gain up to 4-5 pounds when they quit smoking. About 20% is not gaining weight at all, and a few loses weight during the smoke cessation. About 10% experience to gain more than 10 pounds. Weight increase is usually because you miss having something in your mouth and thus eat more and you are perhaps less physically active. To avoid gaining weight when you quit smoking, try to avoid too many delights.
Remember: Not all non-smokers are thick, and not all smokers are thin!
What happens to fitness when stopping smoking?
Answer:
Sport can not compensate for the damage incurred by smoking. Smoking on health can not be removed by exercise, diet, medication, etc. It is only a cessation, which can eliminate the risks of smoking.
Smoking affects your conditioning, since the carbon monoxide in the blood binds to the red blood cells. This means that the amount of oxygen that can be transported around the body, will be reduced, and it is equal to a worse condition. Although you can be in good shape, even if you smoke, you will never be in as good shape as you if you do not smoke. Many will feel an improvement of conditioning the first days after a smoking cessation - even if they have always grown sport.
What happens to taste and smell?
Answer:
Nerve cells, which ensures that you can smell and taste, are burdened by substances in the smoke. It dampens their signals and thus your ability to taste and smell.
You experience a whole new world after a cessation. The food tastes better, and you detect new odors, including the irritating smell of others smoking and the smell of smoke that hangs in clothes and furniture.
This happens because your normal senses are come back. This happens already the first days after a cessation.
How soon after a cessation does the risk of disease disappear?
Answer:
20 min after quitting: Blood pressure and pulse normalized, and blood circulation increases.
8 hours after: the content of carbon monoxide in the blood are halved, and your conditioning improves.
24 hours following: the risk of heart attack decreases.
48 hours: Carbon monoxide in the blood is gone. Smell and taste perception starts to become normal. 4 weeks after: cough and shortness of breath disappears. Lungs is better to fight infections.
1 year after: the risk of getting heart disease is halved.
5 years after: the risk of getting a cardiovascular disease is almost the same as for someone who never smoked.
10 years after: the risk of lung cancer has declined by 50%.
15 years after: the risk of getting lung cancer is almost the same as for those who have never smoked.
Will tobacco cough ever disappear?
Answer:
Your cough is caused by the damage caused to your lung tissue. You will probably see significant improvements within the first month, then you no longer have to cough up the tar that would otherwise end up in your lungs when you smoke. But it may take time for the body to repair the damage, even if you are totally smoke-free. Cigarette cough will disappear, but how soon depends on how much damage has been done on lung tissue, and how good your body has to repair itself.
At http://www.quitsmokingpillsnow.com Charles Hodgson, a long time smoker and now ex-smoker, examines every possible means to quit smoking, from quit smoking pills to quit smoking acupuncture.
Sunday, November 23, 2008
What Happens After You Quit Smoking?
Most smokers wish that they would enjoy immediate restoration of their health when they shake off their tobacco dependence. Unfortunately, this is not exactly what happens after you quit smoking.
Your body has been conditioned by years and years of smoking and has literally depended on nicotine for sustenance. Naturally, it might take a while before it acclimatizes itself to the healthier you. Here are the real facts as to what happens after you quit smoking.
The Good
The minute that you stop reaching for the cigarette, your body starts to repair itself, one cell at a time. If you continue to refrain from smoking for the next few weeks, you will notice that you can actually smell things better. Smoking has a way of desensitizing your sense of smell, dulling it so that you yourself do not know how awful the stench of exhaled smoke is.
With that you can also breathe deeper, and can now distinguish between lung filling breath and diaphragm filling breath. That is something which you could not achieve during your smoking days.
This is due to the fact that the cells of your lungs are knitting themselves up to pre-smoking conditions. Airways are becoming more open to non-nicotine laced breaths, capillaries become less constrained and the cilia or the hair-like fibers surrounding the respiratory organs begin to grow again.
Also, your blood pressure will show dramatic reduction as well as your body temperature. It is said that the moment you stop smoking, you decrease your chances of both a heart attack and stroke by almost 50%.
Finally, after only a few months of not smoking, your taste buds would have fully recovered, and this will finally allow you to taste food as it is. When a person smokes, his taste buds become numbed with the nicotine. Losing your sense of smell during this time also contributes to the loss of your taste buds.
The Bad
Some people relapse into the habit again because of the seemingly bad consequences of quitting the cigarette. For one thing, there is always the withdrawal period where the body craves and craves for the nicotine.
Some symptoms of nicotine withdrawal are dryness of the throat, excessive coughing, shaking (particularly of the hands), alternate periods of extreme chilling and sweating, and more. Some withdrawal symptoms are heavily dependent on the person's current state of health and for how long he or she has been addicted to smoking.
There are some people who have even claimed to experience regular bouts of lethargy and compulsion to eat excessively. This is because nicotine has the tendency to "excite" some cells of the body into repressing the normal insulin and glucose production.
If you remove the nicotine from the equation, these cells go on hyper drive, producing both insulin and glucose to a level that is above normal. This makes you feel both deprived of energy at all times, but hungry as heck. It will take a few weeks or months to get your body to produce normal levels of insulin and glucose.
Now that you know what happens after you quit smoking, why not take the appropriate actions to quit smoking? Visit my Quit Smoking blog at http://www.treatmentforbadbreath.com for easy ways and download your FREE report on the Truth About Smoking.
Your body has been conditioned by years and years of smoking and has literally depended on nicotine for sustenance. Naturally, it might take a while before it acclimatizes itself to the healthier you. Here are the real facts as to what happens after you quit smoking.
The Good
The minute that you stop reaching for the cigarette, your body starts to repair itself, one cell at a time. If you continue to refrain from smoking for the next few weeks, you will notice that you can actually smell things better. Smoking has a way of desensitizing your sense of smell, dulling it so that you yourself do not know how awful the stench of exhaled smoke is.
With that you can also breathe deeper, and can now distinguish between lung filling breath and diaphragm filling breath. That is something which you could not achieve during your smoking days.
This is due to the fact that the cells of your lungs are knitting themselves up to pre-smoking conditions. Airways are becoming more open to non-nicotine laced breaths, capillaries become less constrained and the cilia or the hair-like fibers surrounding the respiratory organs begin to grow again.
Also, your blood pressure will show dramatic reduction as well as your body temperature. It is said that the moment you stop smoking, you decrease your chances of both a heart attack and stroke by almost 50%.
Finally, after only a few months of not smoking, your taste buds would have fully recovered, and this will finally allow you to taste food as it is. When a person smokes, his taste buds become numbed with the nicotine. Losing your sense of smell during this time also contributes to the loss of your taste buds.
The Bad
Some people relapse into the habit again because of the seemingly bad consequences of quitting the cigarette. For one thing, there is always the withdrawal period where the body craves and craves for the nicotine.
Some symptoms of nicotine withdrawal are dryness of the throat, excessive coughing, shaking (particularly of the hands), alternate periods of extreme chilling and sweating, and more. Some withdrawal symptoms are heavily dependent on the person's current state of health and for how long he or she has been addicted to smoking.
There are some people who have even claimed to experience regular bouts of lethargy and compulsion to eat excessively. This is because nicotine has the tendency to "excite" some cells of the body into repressing the normal insulin and glucose production.
If you remove the nicotine from the equation, these cells go on hyper drive, producing both insulin and glucose to a level that is above normal. This makes you feel both deprived of energy at all times, but hungry as heck. It will take a few weeks or months to get your body to produce normal levels of insulin and glucose.
Now that you know what happens after you quit smoking, why not take the appropriate actions to quit smoking? Visit my Quit Smoking blog at http://www.treatmentforbadbreath.com for easy ways and download your FREE report on the Truth About Smoking.
Thursday, October 30, 2008
Over a year later
Over a year later... so what's up with my decision to quit smoking?
Happily, I survived the one year mark without lighting a cigarette. My friends asked me how did I do it, I just told them I decided to quit smoking. I never used any medication to help me do it. Just a purpose to get healthy.
Happily, I survived the one year mark without lighting a cigarette. My friends asked me how did I do it, I just told them I decided to quit smoking. I never used any medication to help me do it. Just a purpose to get healthy.
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