The benefits that are obtained when stopping to smoke are multiple and immediate, and as the old Chinese aphorism says: "The man that can conquers itself, is worth more than the one that has conquered a thousand times a thousand armies"
The benefits of stopping to smoke are many, and they embrace many aspects among which we can highlight: It improves your health, it improves your body aspect, and it improves your economy
How Does Your Health Improve
* Stopping to smoke only 20 minutes, recovers the normal level of the arterial pressure, the heart frequency and the feet and hands temperature.
* 8 hours after stopping to smoke we begin to have a better lung oxygenation normalizing the monoxide of carbon and oxygen levels.
* After 24 hours it diminishes the risk of a sudden death.
* After 48 hours you begin to recover the senses of smell and taste
* 72 hours later, the breathing function is normalized
* 1 to 3 months later, your physical capacity will be increased, that is to say that you will be less tired
* 9 months later the risk of infections will decrease and the bronchial drainage will improve
* Only 5 YEARS after stopping to smoke, the risk of suffering a lung cancer will be similar to that of the non smokers
* 10 years later the risk off having mouth cancer, throat cancer, esophagus and bladder will low to one half
* Only 15 YEARS after having stopped to smoke you will have the same risk of having a coronary inadequacy that a person that doesn't smoke.
How Does Your Body Aspect Improve
* Your breath, hair and clothes will stop having tobacco scent.
* Your car, house and work place, will stop to have tobacco scent
* Your fingernails and hands will stop to have yellow color
* Your skin will improve in all senses, it will change the coloration becoming rosier (the skin of the smokers is grizzly), it will improve its smoothness and become more hydrated, and as a consequence of that you will have less wrinkles
How Will Your Economy Improve
Obviously this point depends on the quantity of cigarettes that you consume daily, but a person that smokes during 30 years a package per day, does not spend less than 15,000 dollars in cigarettes, plus lighters, matches, ashtrays, burnt clothes, treatments against the asthma, treatments against the allergy, bronchitis and cold treatments, etc.
Some companies prefer to hire non smokers, because the smokers get ill more frequently and they cause more maintenance expenses, since the scents of the cigarettes should be eliminated, and the residuals of the smoke stick in the curtains, carpets and cloths in general. |
