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Giving up smoking (Again)
MissMud08:
Good luck!
andyb:
This 'health benefit timetable' helped me when I stopped 3 years ago.
Within 20 minutes your blood pressure and pulse returns to normal.
Within 8 hours nicotine and carbon monoxide levels in blood reduce by half, oxygen levels return to normal and circulation improves.
Within 24 hours carbon monoxide and nicotine are eliminated from the body.
Within 48 hours the ability to taste and smell improves.
Within 3 days your breathing becomes easier as your bronchial tubes begin to relax.
Within a few weeks your fingers lose their yellow stains and your skin looks better.
Within 1 month your appearance improves - skin loses its greyish pallor and becomes less wrinkled.
Within 3-9 months coughing and wheezing declines.
Within 1 year the risk of heart attack reduces by half compared to that of a smoker.
Within 10 years the risk of lung cancer falls to about half that of a smoker.
Within 15 years your risk of coronary heart disease is the same as a non-smoker.
When I get asked how do you stop smoking. I just say "just stop". Thats it. Just stop smoking. Grit you teeth and get on with you life. Don't think about how long it has been since you last smoke, just remember the timetable above and look forward to the next benefit milestone.
Yoshi:
well i am doing it cold turkey (whilst eating cold pork!) lol
Skibum346:
Get down to your practice nurse and ask her for "Champix" the magic bullet pills. Wife used them to great effect.
They work by blocking the nicotine receptors rather than replacing the nicotine. With the receptors blocked you get no hit even if you have a sly fag... she stopped dead after three days and that was a yeasr ago. The only thing she has had to cope with is what to do with her hands when driving etc.
Good luck
Skibum
biggerlandy:
ive got a good one for what the wife can do with her hands ;)
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