Quitting Smoking Benefits

Quit Guide

When (or even before) they decide it’s time to quit smoking, many people think of the hard time ahead of them. This is wrong for one big fat reason:
Thinking it’s gonna be hard will only make it even harder! If you and I had a penny for every single time we made this mistake, we’d both be filthy rich by now… So instead of doing this, everyone should look at quitting smoking benefits – here’s my top 3:

First benefit: did you know that from the first 20 minutes you put out that last cigarette your blood pressure and pulse return to their normal values? In 8 hours or less, the carbon monoxide levels in your blood stream will drop by HALF, and oxygen level will return to normal. And if you’re wondering what carbon monoxide is, like I first did when I read this piece of information, let’s define it now: carbon monoxide is a colorless, odorless and tasteless, yet highly toxic gas. As wikipedia explains it, carbon monoxide combines with hemoglobin in the blood to produce carboxyhemoglobin (COHb), which is ineffective for delivering oxygen to the body tissues (a condition known as anoxemia). I know! It sounds pretty creepy. But enough with this mumbo-jumbo. Point is: you stop smoking, this bad gas goes away. In 8 hours or less! Isn’t that great?

The second benefit of quitting smoking is that all of a sudden, your hands start smelling better; your face and skin start looking better. You will actually have people come up to you and tell you that you look better! If you’re a woman / girl, they’ll probably even ask for cosmetics tips on how to have their skin look so good. I remember I got a huge kick out of this one. If you’re a guy and you couldn’t care less about this, hmm… think again: it’s a great deal for you too to look better, chicks are bound to notice it! ;) So you see, you’re not only doing something beneficial to your health when you quit smoking, but it also shows: you yourself and those around you will literally see the benefits… on your face!

The third benefit – and possibly my personal favorite is that your home, clothes, car will actually look better and smell better. If you’re still a smoker now, I bet this description fits: you’ve got ashtrays that you either keep full for weeks in a row – which makes them smell and look really ugly; or you wash them all the time – which I’m guessing it’s not your favorite task of the day. Same goes for the ashtrays in your car, and for the clothes you wear while smoking – they do tend to suck in all the tobacco smell, don’t they?

So if you’re seriously considering giving up smoking and becoming a healthier, cleaner, better looking individual, stop thinking about how hard it’s gonna be. As long as you’re really aware of the huge quitting smoking benefits, this will be a piece of cake. You will NOT hit your head against the wall every time you crave for nicotine; you will instead be pleased and happy to notice more and more benefits of being smoke-free – every day! You will be proud to have people complimenting you on how good you look, smell and even taste!

So bottom line: it all comes down to what YOU want to make of it: think of becoming smoke-free as a step toward you becoming a better self. Version 2.0 of YOU. The new, improved, face-lifted YOU.