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Motivators
Better Health
The good news is when you quit smoking your body immediately starts to transform into a non-smoker. Check it out, within...
- 20 minutes: Healthy Heart - Blood pressure goes down. Pulse slows to normal. Temperature in feet and hands goes up to normal.
- 8 hours: Just Breathe - Carbon monoxide level in blood goes down to normal.
- 24 hours: Hit the Showers - Breath, hair and body stop smelling like smoke.
- 72 hours: I'm Free! - The body is basically free of nicotine.
- 1-3 weeks: Tasty - Sense of taste and smell goes up. Never endings are back doing their thing.
- 1-9 months: Full of Hot Air - Coughing, congestion, fatigue and shortness of breath goes down. Cilia regrow into the lungs, increasing your ability to fight off infections. Energy goes up.
- 1 year & beyond: I'm So Over It! - Risk of heart attack, stroke, lung and other cancers goes down, usually to the level of a non-smoker.
Your friends', family's, and others' health
Do it for them! Your smoke from the end of your cig and what comes out of your mouth and nose hurts people around you. People who hang around smokers and breath their smoke can get lung cancer or a heart attack, too. Little kids who hang around smokers can get lung problems like asthma and more infections.
Your good looks
Smokers have more wrinkles than non-smokers. Smokers also get yellowish-brown fingers and fingernails on the hand that holds the cig. Smokers get yellow teeth.
The social factor
Let's face it, it's hard to be a smoker these days with all of the no-smoking rules and laws, anti-tobacco campaigns, health hazards, etc. Have you ever felt funny about lighting up when no one else around you was smoking? Do people sometimes look at you with disgust or start coughing just because you are smoking? Do you ever have to walk outside and hide to have your cig? Or, have you ever felt like maybe someone didn't want to date you or get to know you better because you smoke? These are all factors that have motivated smokers just like you to quit. Is this something you've thought about?
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