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Immediate Quitting Smoking Benefits

Brian Leanza — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 14:55:59 +0000

Yes, breaking the nasty habit of smoking cigarettes is a long and trying process. Yet, quite a few quitting smoking benefits can be enjoyed within only a few days or even hours after you put out your last cigarette.
Heart and Blood Pressure Dropping
Only 20 minutes after quitting your heart and blood pressure will drop. Remember, high blood pressure is a pretty serious condition which may lead to heart failure, coronary heart diseases, strokes and many other health issues. After about a month blood pressure will return to a normal level.
Carbon Monoxide Leaving the Body
Smoking poisons your body with carbon monoxide. Carbon monoxide is a taste- and odorless gas which is highly toxic. Within the first few hours after quitting carbon monoxide levels in your body will drop to normal. Considering that this gas is so highly poisonous and that a smoker willingly applies this poison to his body, it is easy to understand that this is a major immediate quitting smoking benefit.
Nicotine Will Leave Your Body
Within only 8 hours of not smoking the remaining nicotine will have fallen to only around 6% of the peak levels of a smoker. Just like carbon monoxide nicotine is a highly poisonous. Did you know that nicotine it only takes 0.5 milligrams of nicotine per kilogram weight for a human to be lethal? You do not want this poison in your body, quit smoking now and imagine how much better you will feel only a few hours later.
Less Stench
Let’s not beat around the bush: smoke stinks, and ‘old’ smoke lingering on your clothes, in your hair, and on your hands even more so. While this is not as serious as the poisoning of your body, smelling better certainly one of the more tangible immediate quitting smoking benefits.

Quitting Smoking Benefits on your iPhone

Brian Leanza — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 12:56:39 +0000

Constantly remembering the quitting smoking benefits can help tremendously when your in process of giving up the nasty habit of smoking. If you own an iPhone there are quite a few applications that might support you in motivating yourself.

While I can’t say that I used them all, out of the five applications I downloaded I found iDontSmoke (app Store Link) by far the most useful and easy to use. This application will let you keep track of goals in an easy and visually appealing manner.

To do so, you simply put down the date and time you quit smoking, how many cigarettes you smoker per day, and how much a pack of cigarettes costs in your currency (of course you only have to do this only once, and not each time you start the application).

The application will then make your quitting smoking benefits tangible by telling you not onyl how many cigarettes you haven’t smoked since you quit, but also how much time has passed and how much money you saved.

The best thing, however, is that iDontSmoke lets you define goals and keep track of them. These goals can be based on a number of cigarettes not smoked, on an amount of money saved, or on the time not smoked since you quit. The main screen will then display the next goal you are going to achieve and in a separate screen you can take a look at all your achieved and future goals.

I found this application almost invaluable when I quit smoking. Having the chance to have a very specific numeric interpretation of my quitting smoking benefits was a major motivational help I wouldn’t have wanted to miss during the harder days and weeks of quitting.

(You can find more information about iDontSmoke on their website at www.ciderware.com)