Let’s Quit Smoking

Any smoker who’s contemplating putting down cigarettes always wants an answer to the question “What happens when you quit smoking?” This isn’t surprising, as there’s always a great deal of information circulating – some of it good, but plenty of it bad – about what happens in a persons’ life and in his or her body when smoking is stopped for good.  What can’t be denied, though, is the fact of the good being far more plentiful than the bad.

So, indeed, what happens when you quit smoking?  To answer this question fully, we need to break down what happens into a few different categories.  The first up is what happens in the first three to ten days, which are crucial in the actual kicking of the physical addiction to cigarettes.  This addiction is due to the presence of the chemical nicotine, by the way.

Nicotine in the cigarette makes its way into the body through the process of inhalation of the cigarette’s smoke.  What it does once it arrives in the body is complicated, but what we can say is that it can be quite addictive.  In this regard, explaining what happens when you quit smoking is more a matter of first describing the body’s response to withdrawal of nicotine as something which was once regularly introduced into the body, and brain, but which has now been eliminated.  Classic withdrawal symptoms ensue, of course.

What these withdrawal symptoms manifest as can be dependent upon the individual person.  Some people who successfully quit smoking report little trouble with withdrawal while others say it was extremely difficult.  Again, this can make describing what happens when you quit smoking somewhat more difficult in a general way.

Of course, if a person can make his or her way through the initial seventy-two to ninety-six hours of smoking cessation, the chances for success increase markedly, at least from a physical standpoint.  For the sake of brevity, let’s say he or she was successful in putting down cigarettes for good.  Then the matter of what happens when you quit smoking becomes one of explaining how the body almost immediately begins to heal itself.

What then, begins to occur?  What happens when you quit smoking, at this point?  For starters, the lungs begin a process of repair.  This can start in as little as twenty-four hours after cessation of smoking, which is a testament to the recuperative abilities present in this wondrous organic system we call the human body.  Within a short time, a person generally can feel an increased ability to breathe more freely, too.  This increase in respiratory efficiency is a common effect.

There are several other physically – and emotionally – beneficial effects that are evidence of what happens when you quit smoking.  The skin might take on a healthier, less-blotchy, tone.  Hair may become less brittle and more amenable to styling.  Fingernails seem to lose a little of the sickly-yellow look reported in some smokers’ nail beds.  All are good things.

Lastly, the most pleasing answer to the question of “What happens when you quit smoking?” is this:  Physiologically, you will eventually regain all those minutes and days and years you lost to cigarette smoking.  This is a medical miracle, but it’s actually also a fact.  Given just that, why wouldn’t somebody want to immediately quit smoking?

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Talk soon,

Wayne J

“What happens to your body when you quit smoking?” is a question most medical professionals and others involved in helping people to put down cigarettes love to answer.  Ideally, the question – in order to more effectively aid people who are thinking of quitting – needs to be answered in terms of phases of what happens to your body when you quit smoking. 

For instance, the matter is different in the withdrawal phase than it is in the long-term, or maintenance, phase.  In withdrawal it’s easy enough to explain what happens to your body when you quit smoking.  The answer, of course, is withdrawal.  And this process can take many forms, ranging from mild and hardly noticeable to severe and extremely demanding.  

Which form of withdrawal occurs depends many times on the physiological makeup of the individual quitter.  Generally, however, what happens when you quit smoking at first may involve mental anxiety, physical trembling, headaches, mild-to-moderate blurring of vision (rare) and a feeling of loss or emptiness.  Nicotine as a drug acting in the body presents a number of physical and mental challenges to a person when it’s withdrawn, and that’s a medical fact.

In the longer term, over the next three to ten days, what happens to your body when you quit smoking… Continue reading »