benefits of quitting smoking

After 40 years and 3 packs a day, I quit smoking 2 weeks ago (with the help of Chantix). I read an article years ago that lists all the changes in your body and long term benefits. It stated how long it takes your body to get rid of all the chemicals that are in cigarettes, cancer risk after so many years, and so on.
Does anyone know what I am talking about and where can I get this article or list?

I think this is what you were thinking of.

Hey, besides all these, your teeth will look better once you get them bleached, your breath will smell nicer, your clothes won't reek, you'll be about $500 a month richer... That's $6K/yr. After 40 years you smoked away a pretty nice house in the 'burbs... You'll wonder what the heck took you so long. Good for you!

Time Since Quitting - Health Benefit

20 minutes - Your heart rate drops.
12 hours - The carbon monoxide level in your blood drops to normal.
2 weeks - 3 months - Circulation improves and lung function increases.
1 - 9 months - Coughing and shortness of breath decrease.
1 year - The excess risk of heart disease is half that of a smoker's.
5 - 15 years - The risk of stroke is as low as a nonsmoker's.
10 years - The lung cancer death rate is about half that of a smoker's.
15 years - The risk of heart disease is as low as a nonsmoker's.

2007-06-16 18:30:33 by looneyvillelibby

www.HowIQuitSmoking.info Quitting smoking can be hard but knowing that your body starts to repair itself almost immediately can really help a lot.

i quit smoking ciggs, but still smoke weed 2-3 times a day...will my lungs still get better and will my lung capacity improve

Yes, your lung capacity will improve but quiting both would improve it more. Also aerobic exercise will improve this even more. If you get regular aerobic activity (30 minutes 3-5 times a week), and quit smoking cigarettes, you should be able to continue smoking marijauna while greatly reducing harm to your lungs.

Also, the addictive qualities of marijauna are much less than cigarettes and more mental than physical, so you should be able to recognize your own body's responses and cut back as much as you need to to achieve the desired effects of your lungs. With cigarettes you are physically addicted and the ability to control the habit is much less.

Most people will inhale much more smoke on a consistant basis with cigarettes than with marijauna. Unless your smoking the equivalence of 20 joints a day or something. Then it would comparable to a pack of cigarettes a day, but I assume your not. That would get expensive.

Also a vaporizor would enable you to use marijauna without getting the smoke with it, as well as an electronic cigarette for nicotine.

http://www.gotvape.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-cigarette
http://www.smokingeverywhere.com/

2009-06-23 12:15:09 by Shaun

Like what happens after 48 hours, 72 hours, etc.

http://www.quitsmokingsupport.com/benefi ts.htm

2007-08-03 12:01:49 by Willalee

Your clothes, house, car and mouth don't stink any more.
You are able to climb satairs without being out of breath.
You can sleep better at night.
You are less susceptible to colds and flu.
Your overall helath imporoves significantly.

I can see that you are building up your resolve to stop. Soon, you will be ready.

Quitting smoking is a great opportunity to learn about ourselves, as you have already observed.
Congratulate yourself on having the desire to stop - then you are over the worst, but still need to maintain your resolve. It's just so easy to start thinking that just one won't hurt, but it does. Just one achieves nothing except feeling the need for another. Whatever you do, don't have just one.
Here's a few home-brewed tips that might be useful.
It's not just nicotine addiction - there are 50+ chemicals in cigarettes. Also the main problem is habit.
We have been used to having body sensations which we translate as 'my body needs something', which we have attempted to satisfy by having a cigarette.
When we try to stop smoking, we still get these 'my body needs something' sensations, and we still feel that we want a cigarette. We have to train our body to be more selective. When we feel we need something, we have to work out what it is that we actually need.
A glass of water is an excellent substitute if nothing else comes to mind, as it helps with the clearance of the toxic substances in our body. Another good substitute is a bag of salted peanuts, used in combination with the water.
Another thing to do is to find an activity which occupies the mind or body. Go swimming - nobody wants to smoke while they are swimming. Slowly, as our body adjusts and translates the 'want something' feelings into something other than cigarettes, then the feelings begin to go away. We know its not a cigarette that the body really needs, because as soon as we've had one we still have the feeling, and want another!
We will have a few bouts of feeling or even being short tempered. We must try to bite our lip, and control; ourselves. Recognise the short temper as being the removal of toxins which are trying to find a way out. They went in through the mouth, and they try to get out that way to. We must learn to keep our mouth closed, and force the toxins out the other way.

After we have stopped for a while we will begin to feel that just one wont to any harm.
All that leads to is a desire for just another one. We must guard very strongly against the desire to have just one.

2006-10-24 07:57:00 by BabyDaddy-U Gone Smell my cologn

Suppose Smoker A is in the early stages.

And

Smoker B is in the advance stages.

I know to many people that has gotten cancer and didn't even smoke, from all ages. If you have cancer please pray. Smoking is bad. Take Vit E and get some grape seeds vitimins from walmart. Maybe this will help. I smoke the non chemical cigs but they still are not good for me. However I don't smoke near as much and I don't cough anymore. Dr, says my lungs are great! been smoking way to long about 38 years and I am tring to quit now, I smoke up to about 6-8 a day. I roll my own. Natrual American Spirit. I get mine at a tobacco store. If you already have cancer just take a lot of VIT E AND GRAPE seed like I said, and Pray try to not smoke. There is a cure just the Goverment don't want you to know. The cure is in the grape seed, God also heals.

2008-03-01 08:34:33 by fsw_amrk