healthier you today

The benefits of quitting smoking begin starting immediately after you put out your last cigarette. The benefits continue to increase day after day from there on out.

Smoking cigarettes causes intense vasoconstriction in small blood vessels. This in turn increases blood pressure and decreases blood flow, especially to your extremities. These harmful effects begin to decrease within the first several hours after you stop smoking

Smoking deadens your taste buds and impairs your ability to smell. Your sense of taste and smell will both begin to recover once you stop smoking.

After you’ve given up smoking for only a few days you’ll notice more money in your pocket. Most smokers don’t keep track of how much money they spend on their addiction, probably because they really don’t want to know how big that number is. Many start saving plans with the money they used to spend on smoking.

Your risk of a heart attack starts to decrease immediately and continually improves. This is because smoking both worsens hardening of the arteries and make your blood more prone to clotting. After 10 years or so without smoking, your risk of a heart attack will have returned to normal.

Quitting smoking benefits continue to increase steadily. You’ll lose your chronic cough. Your chances of asthma or sinus problems will decrease. You’ll find you tolerate physical activities better.

As you’d expect, your risk of lung cancer decreases.

Your home and environment will become cleaner and fresher as the smoke clears. You’ll spare those you love illness caused by your second hand smoke.

Other benefits include increased control of your life and an improved self-esteem.

Quitting smoking also improves your physical appearance. Chronic smoking affects your complexion adversely, stains your teeth and makes you more susceptible to wrinkles.

Yes, you have a lot to gain from quitting smoking.

With all this and more to gain, don’t you think you should seriously consider quitting smoking?