What happens after you quit smoking?!
Question: I started smoking again during a divorce last summer. This past weekend I came down with the flu and have no had a smoke all weekend long.
I mean, I'm partially the way there already, no?
Anyhow, I was always a social smoker, this time around I was a heavy stress smoker. I've started hacking up some pretty gross stuff but feel a difference already, what else should I expect?
Answers: I started smoking again during a divorce last summer. This past weekend I came down with the flu and have no had a smoke all weekend long.
I mean, I'm partially the way there already, no?
Anyhow, I was always a social smoker, this time around I was a heavy stress smoker. I've started hacking up some pretty gross stuff but feel a difference already, what else should I expect?
Quit now if you can and try real hard. I can not stress it enough that smoking kills. Smoking causes lung cancer, high blood pressure, cardiac problems, blood clots which may cause stroke, heart attack and eventually quick death. Once lung cells are destroyed, they are irreversible. So if you quit now, what good lung cells you have remaining can avoid getting damaged. Smoker cough is one sign that damage to your respiratory tract has already been done. Your respiratory tract are lined with little hair appendages that are called cilia. The cilia tend to catch any foreign materials that pass through the tracts and redirects them back out of the respiratory tract. This makes you cough out phlegm or whatever. Once damaged, your lung is defenseless. They loose their pliability and get stiff and thereby you loose your normal breathing patterns. Be more health conscious and take care of yourself because no one else will do that better than you. Now if you don't, doctors and nurses will be there to care for you 'coz you are a job security to them.
3 month's time you get 30% improvement in lung function. Better sense of smell and taste back. I think after a year it goes to 70% lung function. Either way now you will save money. And will be healthier. Keep up the good work.
once you stop, you will have a healthier body. you aren't "partially the way there already" you can't halfass quitting, no i'm not trying to be mean but my dad has been smoking for probably 30 years and he's told my family several times that he's gonna quit and he never does. so you shouldn't be scared of the aftermath of quitting, tell me, would you rather take the side effects for a month or continue to cut your life short? that's how i see it because i'm scared to death of losing my father when i am only 17. (no offense but this needs to be said to motivate you, NOT to make you mad) but you can't be a coward and do things to "lift" the stress from your life. i'm bipolar and i have never smoked, drank, or smoked weed to calm myself down and it takes a hell of a lot to say no when i'm depressed or really mad. you need to go to a doctor and ask him, you can go get a patch from walgreens or something, or you can go to a chiropractor for that acupuncture thing(that helps a lot of people deal with multiple things, helps with losing weight, quit smoking and other addictions, cure anxiety and stress,etc). good luck, remember, you can't "partially do it" you have to go cold turkey and tell yourself you're not gonna be weak and go back to it, i'm sorry you went through a bad divorce i'm guessing, but you need to stop immediately or you can die from lung cancer.be strong and never give up your convictions....i know no one can afford to pay for cancer treatments. do other things to help cope with your stress....otherwise youll just become your own worst enemy.
you will have some withdrawls