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100 Questions & Answers About How To Quit Smoking |
Below are some more reasons for you to make up your mind to stop smoking.
You will know what Nicotine is and how it affects your body functions and how long Nicotine stays in your body after you have stop smoking.
What is Nicotine?
Nicotine derived from a tobacco plant family called Solanaceae.
It is a naturally occurring organic compound called liquid alkaloid, made out of carbon,hydrogen and nitrogen.
These poisonous chemicals have deadly effects on your body.
Effects of Nicotine on the Body
Nicotine changes how your brain and body works.
After your have puffed a cigarette, the nicotine in the substance reaches your brain within 5-7 seconds.
The absorption of nicotine by your body is through your bloodstream.
Nicotine causes a rapid release of adrenaline, you will experience;
Rapid heartbeat
Increased blood pressure
Rapid, shallow breathing
Nicotine blocks the release of the hormone insulin making you hyperglycemic.
That means, you have more sugar in your blood because less insulin is produced to act upon the excess glucose from your blood.
Nicotine may also increase your basal metabolic rate.
You burned more calories than usually even when you are not doing anything.
In the long run, nicotine increases the level of your "bad" cholesterol called LDL.
LDL will damage your arteries and you are more likely to have a heart attack or a stroke.
How long does Nicotine stay in your body after you stop smoking?
20 minutes after you stop smoking your blood pressure will drop back to normal and your brain will become free of nicotine after 45 minutes.
In 8 hours, the carbon monoxide levels in your blood stream will drop to half and your oxygen levels will return to normal.
48 hours later, your chance of having a heart attack will be decreased.
And all nicotine will have left your body.
Your sense of taste and smell will return to a normal.
After 72 hours your bronchial tubes will relaxed, and your energy levels will increased.
In 2 weeks your circulation will increase, and it will continue to improve for the next 10 weeks.
Coughing, wheezing and breathing problems will dissipate as your lung capacity improves by 10% by third to ninth months.
Your risk of a heart attack will dropped by half in the first year you stop smoking and 5 years later your risk of having a stroke returns to that of a non-smoker.
And 10 years on, your risk of lung cancer will also returned to that of a non-smoker.
Not until the 15th year will your risk of heart attack be wipe out totally.
Now you know how Nicotine from smoking affects your health and the time taken to remove Nicotine from your body.
Take the right step and stop smoking.
By not smoking, not only benefits you but your family, friends and the people around you.
Posted by: Mo Salle
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