You might
think it's too late to quit smoking, but here are some good news:
Why
stop smoking now?
- Within
20 minutes: Blood pressure, body temperature and pulse rate will
drop to normal.
- Within
eight hours: Smoker's breath disappears. Carbon monoxide level in
blood drops; oxygen level rises to normal.
- Within
24 hours: Chance of heart attack decreases.
- Within
48 hours: Nerve endings start to regroup. Ability to taste and smell
improves.
- Within
three days: Breathing is easier.
- Within
two to three months: Circulation improves. Walking becomes easier.
Lung capacity increases up to 30 percent.
- Within
one to nine months: Sinus congestion and shortness of breath decrease.
Cilia that sweep debris from your lungs grow back. Energy increases.
- Within
one year: Excess risk of coronary heart disease is half that of
a smoker.
- Within
two years: Heart attack risk drops to near normal.
- Within
five years: Lung cancer death rate for average formaer pack-a-day
smoker decreases by almost half. Stroke risk is reduced. Risk of mouth,
throat, and esophageal cancer is half that of a smoker.
- Within
10 years: Lung cancer death rate is similar to that of a non-smoker.
The precancerous cells are replaced.
- Within
15 years: Risk of coronary heart disease same as a person who has
never smoked.
(Information
drawn from publications of the American Cancer Society.)
The above
list is a short version of all the damage smoking is known to cause.
It also shows you that your body will heal to the extent possible if
you will only give it a chance.
Latest
research:
Heavy maternal
smoking during pregnacy was linked to a nearly
fivefold increase in early-onset type 2 diabetes and obesity
in offspring. "In utero exposures to smoking during pregnancy may
increase the risk to both diabetes and obesity through programming,
resulting in lifelong metabolic dysregulation, possibly due to fetal
malnutrition or toxicity."
Montgomery
SM, Ekborn A, Smoking during pregnancy and diabetes mellitus in a British
longitudinal birth cohort. British Medical Journal 2002:324, pp.
26-27
Smoking is
bad news, for you, for your body, for your children, for your family,
your friends and for your pocket book. Please Quit Now!
How to
quit smoking now:
Have you
ever tried to quit?
Have you actually quit, and then started again?
Have you maybe gone through this process more than once?
Have you maybe given up hope to ever quit?
Dr. Z recommends
three supplements that will greatly aid you in your quest to finally stop
your addiction to smoking tobacco and to allow your body to return to
optimal health.
- Sulfonil
by Thorne Research
- Pleo-Alkala
powder by Sanum
- Ascorbic
Acid Caps
They have
shown to be highly effective in:
- Lessening
your craving for tobacco
- Lessening
your withdrawal reactions
- Decreasing
the damage done to your body
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