benefits of giving up smoking?

Question

without long cut and paste please tell me the benefits as i gave up 3 days ago, after smoking for 9 yrs.

Answer 1

Immediate improvement in skin tone and elasticity (you're not so dehydrated), longer term - less risk of dozens of cancers, heart disease, thrombosis, strokes. You name it - you're less likely (although no-one knows exactly how much less) to get it. Oh, and your clothes, hair and mouth won't stink any more!
Congratulations. Very good news for you and yours.

Answer 2

No point in going on about health benefits, I'm sure you know them as well as anyone. But there is the other side, where smoking inhibits your life. Avoiding things where you would not be able to pop out for a smoke for a long period. Dreading a long bus journey or flight, avoiding traveling in other people's cars because you wont be able to light up. Avoiding going to a friend or family home where nipping out for a smoke is difficult or awkward. There are the times when a neice or nephew come up to you just after a smoke and want a hug and you suddenly are very aware of the smell, then you see it on their faces, they don't say it, they just look with a very honest face and then move off your knee to do other things. No mind reader is needed, you know yourself that child moved away from you because of the smell. Smokers are usually unaware that that smell remains on their clothes, even after washing. It takes a few washes for it to wear off, everyone else can smell it. But there are times when you know they can smell it, you feel dirty. Teeth, you have to work hard to keep your teeth white, have to buy the special toothpaste, the sort of toothpaste that is abrasive, you know that and you don't like the idea, but it's the only toothpaste able to fight this particular battle. But still, your teeth are slowly but surely changing colour. Then you see a picture from a family BBQ, an unexpected close up, and you are surprised by the colour, they didn't look that yellow or ginger in the mirror, but the camera shows the colour that it saw, the same colour everyone else in the room sees every time they see you. There, now that I have depressed you a bit, sorry, to the non smoking. Hardest thing you will do. It seems a mountain to climb, how long does it take, will I need to stock up on sweets and all the other questions we ask. Well actually it only takes about a week. You see the brain does what it is told to do and also anticipates your desires. So when you stop smoking you are teaching your brain that you no longer want this, once it gets the message it will help you to not want it. But nature doesn't like a vacuum, so you need to fill the space with something else. Personally I would say get to the gym and work, daily, harder than you have worked in your life. Push them weights hard. Afterwards you will be cooling down and the brain will ask if you fancy a smoke, shake your head and say 'no'. By shake I mean, shake that thought out of there vigorously (hopefully in private). It wont be long before your brain stops offering that one and instead offers something else, wait until it offers what you want. It will learn.

Answer 3

You will no longer smell
You can breathe better
Will get less wrinkles
Healthier teeth and gums
Save lots of money
Will not have to stand out in the cold when the smoking ban comes into force
No more coughing
You will actually find food tastes better

Answer 4

1 live longer
2 breath easier
3 exercise easier
4 taste food again
5 not stink
6 not have tobacco film on everything you own
7 over $1300 back in your pocket per year (1 pack per day)
8 stopping a mind control that big business created

21 yr smoker....and look to quit myself this year....no more mind control. Good luck and more power to you.

Answer 5

Your skin will look better, your teeth won't be stained, your hair and clothes won't smell like an ashtray,your risk of smoking related diseases is drastically reduced, you'll be welcome in all the clubs and pubs that have banned smoking and you will have loads of extra money. I know all these things, so why can't I give up!! Keep up the good work and congratulations.xx

Answer 6

You save:

1) Money
2) Your lungs
3) Your immune system
4) Your clothes from stinking (you'll notice this more and more form other smokers, the longer it's been since you quit)

*Note*: Here is a bit of info you may not know....... between the 1-8 months after you quit, you might get sick (chest and head cold) more often than usual. It happened to me as I got sick 3 times in 6 months. The doctors told me it is due to your lungs shedding the outer layer of dead mucus. The fresh/new pink layer of lung tissue underneath is exposed for the first time and temporarily more suceptible to becoming infected from common airborne bacteria or fungus. After 6 months, I haven't been sick a day since.

Best of luck to you. Remember it's all willpower.

Answer 7

There are many, many benefits, so I can only list some. You have a lesser chance of dying young, having heart disease/heart attacks, emphysema, lung cancer, you will sing better, more people will want to be around you, and you will stop putting tar and rat poision (as well as 3,998 other deadly chemicals) into your lungs and body.

Any questions?

Answer 8

You'll save money and smell better immediately. Long term the benefits to your health and looks will be great. Good on you - I'm still smoking cos I enjoy them too much !

Answer 9

I gave up smoking 5 years ago and since have been able to run more than a mile at a time, my teeth do not stain as fast, and, heres the shocker, I finally got pregnant.

Answer 10

My mom died of lung cancer at 50 and missed 3 grandchildren brought into the world.

My dad suffered a major, life threatening heart attack at 55 and just had his second one at 65.

Lung cancer is an awful painful death. Good Luck

Answer 11

It's gives you a valid excuse to be really irritable with everyone! Anytime you upset someone by yelling at them, just say sorry but you have just given up somking and hey presto! Sympathy.