What Happens To You After You Quit Smoking

In this topic I want to talk about the positive things that happens to your body & health the moment you decide to quit smoking.
Let's get right into it.

The Checklist

20 minutes:

After just 20 minutes your blood pressure & pulse drop back to normal.
You may get extreme cravings after 1 or 2 hours, just know it's a mind battle, your pulse & blood pressure are still at normal rate.

12 hours :

You have half a day behind you! Just take it day by day to be a better you. After 12 hours your body cleanses itself of the excess carbon monoxide from the cigarettes. 

By now the amount of carbon monoxide & nicotine in your blood has dropped to half of what it was & your blood oxygen level has increased to normal. What a great start!!

24 hours :

You are a hole day in right now!! Keep it up & be proud of yourself, just know the urge to smoke will eventually leave. You don't even notice it but your body is working hard to get rid of all the toxic chemicals you've poisoned yourself with. Your lungs are working hard to get rid of the mucus &
the risk of a heart attack begins to decrease

48 hours :

Due to smoking your nerve endings responsible for smell and taste are damaged. These nerve endings starts to regrow and heal. Your senses of smell and taste are returning back to normal. By now you will taste and smell way better than you could during smoking. Imagine what it would be like after 1 year without smoking.
Also there is no nicotine left in your body. Keep up the good work & keep on being nicotine free!

72 hours :

By now you may noticed that breathing has become a lot easier  and you  have more energy due to the increase of your levels of energy. You feel more active during the day so it's important to know to what you will commit yourself when you feel this energy, spend more time on your hobby's or develop new ones, fitness & exercise more. meet up with friends, work harder towards your goal. Just know you will have to make yourself do & think about something else when the urge pops up.

1 month :

You are a month in now. You don't even know how grateful your body is, you finally decided to leave those things alone.  You blood flow has improved a lot and is still improving, also your lungs are stronger and clearer.

2 to 9 Months :

That ugly smoker cough is way less to non- existing and so is the shortness of breath, this makes exercising and just going about your day a lot easier.

1 Year

After one year without smoking your body is way healthier than it have ever been since you've started to smoke. you may have experienced another life since quitting.

After one year your risk of a heart attack, heart disease & stroke has dropped to half of what it was a year ago.

5 Years :

Keep up your healthy life, you non-smoker. How great is it to say, 'Oh no, I don't smoke'. Your risk of getting a stroke or cervical cancer is the same as that of a non smoker.

10 Years :

Ten years in and your body is still recovering from all the damage you've done to yourself.  You risk between 30% - 50% to be diagnosed with lung cancer, and you're half as likely to die from lung cancer compared to someone who still smokes. Your risk of getting cancer to the mouth, throat or pancreas has dropped.