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  • with over 7,000 chemicals released each

  • time you light a cigarette it's no

  • surprise that smoking is one of the

  • leading causes of preventable deaths

  • worldwide but with 1.3 billion people

  • actively smoking what actually happens

  • when you stop smoking within the first

  • 20 minutes of quitting your blood

  • pressure and heart rate return to normal

  • this is because the nicotine in

  • cigarettes released epinephrine and

  • norepinephrine which increased your

  • heart rate and narrowed blood vessels

  • these effects also caused smokers

  • extremities to feel colder but by now

  • your hands and feet have returned to

  • their normal temperature 2 hours in and

  • the nicotine cravings begin causing

  • moodiness drowsiness tense feelings and

  • even difficulty sleeping because

  • nicotine also releases more dopamine

  • than normal these are expected

  • physiological responses to the decrease

  • in its release eight hours after

  • quitting and the inhaled carbon monoxide

  • clears allowing oxygen levels in the

  • bloodstream to return to normal carbon

  • monoxide and oxygen compete to bind to

  • hemoglobin in your blood which stretches

  • the circulatory system so as it clears

  • there's more room for oxygen however for

  • long-term smokers this carbon monoxide

  • exposure causes red blood cells to

  • increase in size making the blood

  • thicker and causing higher blood

  • pressure and increased chances of

  • developing blood clot surprisingly 24

  • hours after quitting coughing will

  • actually increase which is your body's

  • way of clearing out all the toxins from

  • the lungs additionally at this point the

  • risk of developing various coronary

  • artery diseases decreases all within 24

  • hours after 48 hours when nicotine and

  • its metabolites are completely

  • eliminated from your body damaged nerve

  • endings begin to regrow the tar and

  • other chemicals and cigarettes leave

  • fewer taste buds that are flatter with

  • less blood vessels they now begin to

  • regain their sensitivity making food

  • tastes better although chronic smokers

  • may often have irreversibly damaged

  • taste blood at the 72-hour mark nicotine

  • withdrawal peaks with headaches nausea

  • and cramps as well as emotional symptoms

  • like anxiety and depression these

  • symptoms can be seen by most addictive

  • substances

  • cluding caffeine but after this period

  • the worst is officially over after one

  • month the risk of developing type 2

  • diabetes cancer and cardiovascular

  • diseases has already decreased in three

  • to nine months the damage Celia and the

  • lungs are almost fully repaired which

  • are hairlike structures that help sweep

  • away dust and debris and as a result

  • symptoms such as coughing and shortness

  • of breath are almost completely

  • eliminated and around one year the risk

  • of developing heart disease as a direct

  • result of at the Roma formation which

  • are deposits of fatty material or scar

  • tissue from deteriorating arterial walls

  • decreases by almost one-half in 10 years

  • the chance of developing lung cancer

  • decreases to half of someone who did not

  • quit smoking and in 15 years time the

  • risk of heart attack decreases to the

  • same as someone who has never smoked

  • their entire life of course this

  • guideline is not definitive and the

  • average amount you smoke per day or year

  • will play a role in how well your body

  • recovers unfortunately there will always

  • be some irreversible damage to the lungs

  • and increased susceptibility to

  • developing various lung diseases and

  • while quitting may be difficult the

  • benefits greatly outweigh the initial

  • withdrawal ultimately the best way to

  • prevent this from happening is to not

  • begin smoking at all need some extra

  • motivation check out our videos to your

  • lazy people which might give you the

  • boost you need to kick your habit or

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