What happens when you stop smoking

I found this great tool on the women’s health section of a government web site. It starts a clock when you visit the page and shows you what happens when you stop smoking right now, and then in time intervals shows you what happens to your body, 20 minutes from that point, weeks, months, and so on. Risk of heart disease, for starters, falls very fast to begin with, and then falls gradually as the years pass. 6 months from now I see that you can look forward to a better respiratory condition, and in 5 years you will have just as high or low risk of getting a stroke as someone who hasn’t smoked.

The social aspect of smoking
The people you have always smoked with are always going to remind your smoker’s brain of all the good times you had, and you might actually need to build an elaborate plan to avoid seeing those people in the smoking situations you saw them in before. Creating a well thought through plan is not really that difficult, but you will need it to cope with the social pressures you or your environment place on your self.

Keep trying, don’t give up
If you were trying to set a world record and found that progress was difficult, would you blame yourself for how slow your progress was? To quit smoking is really a big deal and a path you should stay on until it is completed.You need to go about it not like it was anything you’re expected to do. You need to go about it like the backbreaking achievement it really is. The facts about smoking, and it’s side-effects, are simply to many to ignore!