Tobacco - Your Body Will Forgive You

My daughter brought this home from school. They got it as a hand out
from the Manitoba Lung Association and I thought it was pretty dang
good. Hope you do too.





Now I wish I'd paid more attention to when I quit! I'm guessing it must
have been about eight years now. Only seven more to survive!


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Tobacco - Your Body Will Forgive You




One of the exciting aspects of quitting smoking is that, in time, we
can actually reduce our risk of acquiring smoking-related diseases to
that of a non-smoker.





Don't ever think that it's too late to quit smoking. Remember your body will forgive you; no matter how long you've been at it.





Thirty minutes after you quit: blood pressure, heart rate and temperature of hands and feet become normal.





Eight hours after you quit: carbon monoxide and oxygen levels in the blood return to normal.





Twenty-four hours after you quit: risks for heart attack and stroke decrease significantly.





Forty-eight hours after you quit: nerve endings in our mouth and nose regrow.





Seventy-two hours after you quit: bronchial tubes relax and breathing is easier.





One week after you quit: nicotine is flushed from our bodies.





Two weeks after you quit: circulation, breathing and lung function improves.





One month after you quit: coughing, sinus congestion and shortness of breath decrease.





Two years after you quit: risks of heart attack drops to that of a person who has never smoked.





Five years after you quit: risk of stroke drops to normal, risk of lung cancer decreases by half.





Ten years after you quit: risk of most types of cancer drop to normal.





Fifteen years after you quit: your risk of dying is similar to a person who has never smoked.