What happens when you quit smoking?

What happens when you quit smoking?

When burned, cigarettes create more than 7,000 chemicals. At least 69 of these chemicals are known to cause cancer, and many are toxic.

Chemicals found in cigarettes:

• Acetone—found in nail polish remover
• Acetic acid—an ingredient in hair dye
• Ammonia—a common household cleaner
• Arsenic—used in rat poison
• Benzene—found in rubber cement and gasoline
• Butane—used in lighter fluid
• Cadmium—active component in battery acid
• Carbon monoxide—released in car exhaust fumes
• Formaldehyde—embalming fluid
• Hexamine—found in barbecue lighter fluid
• Lead—used in batteries
• Naphthalene—an ingredient in mothballs
• Methanol—a main component in rocket fuel
• Nicotine—used as an insecticide
• Tar—material for paving roads
• Toluene—used to manufacture paint

After quitting smoking

20 min- Your heart rate return to normal.

2 hours- Craving returns causing moodiness and tense feeling and difficulty in sleeping.

8 hours- Carbon monoxide level decreases and oxygen level increase in the bloodstream.

24 hours- After quitting coughing will increase which clear all the toxins from the lungs and the risk of heart disease also decreases.

48 hours- Damage nerve ending begin to regrow and the taste buds in the tongs started to regrow make your food tastier.

72 hours- Headache, nausea, and craps start showing.

Worst is over

1 month- The risk of developing type 2 diabetes, cancer, and cardiovascular disease decrease.

3-9 months- Lungs are fully repaired.

1 year- The risk of heart disease decrease by 50%.

10 years- Chances of developing lung cancer decrease by 50%.

15 Years- The risk of heart attack decreases the same as someone who never smoked.

*Varies on the average amount you smoke per day

Fun fact- Cigarette filters don’t do anything they were created as a marketing ploy to make people feel like they were protecting themselves in fact cancer rates are increase since they began using them.