Heal Your Body When You Stop Smoking

Video Transcript

"The body is very resilient and it begins to kind of heal itself almost immediately after you quit smoking. About 20 minutes after you have had a cigarette your heart rate and your blood pressure return to the level as before you smoked. After 12 hours the carbon monoxide level in your blood returns to normal. In about one month your lung function increases and maybe in about three months the cilia in the lungs begin to function normally again so they are better able to clean the lungs. A year after you quit smoking your risk of coronary heart disease is half that of a smoker. After five years your risk of a stroke is the same as that of a nonsmoker so all these benefits you will see over time. Ten years after you quit your risk of lung cancer is about half that of a nonsmoker so it really is from 20 minutes to up to ten years your body is continuing to heal itself. Some immediate effects you will notice of course that food is going to taste better. Your sense of smell is going to increase and become stronger. You are stop yellowing of your teeth and your fingernails and stop things like premature aging and wrinkling of the skin, yellowing of the teeth those kinds of things and then of course there is the immediate benefits of your clothes and your house and your hair and your car aren't going to smell like smoke."