{"id":592,"date":"2015-09-02T12:25:56","date_gmt":"2015-09-02T06:55:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/articles.1mg.com\/?p=592"},"modified":"2026-05-21T14:31:43","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T09:01:43","slug":"reasons-of-quitting-smoking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.1mg.com\/articles\/reasons-of-quitting-smoking\/","title":{"rendered":"9 Reasons Why you should be Quitting Smoking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-181790 size-full\" title=\"9 Reasons why you should Quit Smoking\" src=\"https:\/\/www.1mg.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/586.jpg\" alt=\"Quitting Smoking\" width=\"1500\" height=\"844\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.1mg.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/586.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/www.1mg.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/586-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.1mg.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/586-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.1mg.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/586-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.1mg.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/586-150x84.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px\" \/><\/p>\n<h4>Dr Sajeela Maini, Author: The Last Puff<\/h4>\n<p>As soon as you quit smoking, your body starts repairing the damage immediately, starting a series of countless health changes that will continue for years:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>After 20 minutes<\/strong> your blood pressure and pulse rate return to normal<\/li>\n<li><strong>After 8 hours<\/strong> oxygen levels in the blood return to normal and chances of heart attack start to fall<\/li>\n<li><strong>After 24 hours<\/strong>, harmful carbon monoxide is removed from the body. The lungs start to clear out<\/li>\n<li><strong>After 48 hours,<\/strong> nicotine gets completely washed off from body. You can taste and smell things better<\/li>\n<li><strong>After 72 hours<\/strong>, your breathing becomes easier and your energy levels increase<\/li>\n<li>Within <strong>2-12 weeks,<\/strong> your blood circulation improves and you can walk briskly<\/li>\n<li>Within <strong>3-9 months, <\/strong>your breathing problems like coughing, breathlessness improve<\/li>\n<li>In <strong>5 years<\/strong>, your risk of heart attack is reduced to about half of that of a smoker!<\/li>\n<li>In <strong>10 years<\/strong>, your risk of lung cancer falls to about half of that of a smoker!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-593 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/1mgarticles.files.wordpress.com\/2015\/09\/anti-smoking.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"reasons to quit smoking\" title=\"9 Reasons why you should Quit Smoking\" width=\"649\" height=\"410\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,4897],"tags":[63,149,183],"class_list":["post-592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live-well","category-smoking","tag-at-work","tag-mens-health","tag-respiratory-disorders"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.1 - 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