A strategy to stop smoking

You wish to preserve, even improve, your health condition, it has there only one solution, easy and difficult at the same time: to stop smoking. And if you have an adequate support, you will have four times more chances to gain the combat against your nicotinism.
The new countryside anti-tobacco of the European commission proposes a strategy in five stages to remove you from the cigarette.

Stage 1: you prepare
To peacefully face at your first day without tobacco, you prepare in an adequate way: decide on a date (to which you will be held), lay down the reasons in writing for which you want to stop, hold a newspaper…

Stage 2: make you help
If you do not feel size to only take (E), without assistance, this step which can prove very painful, you address to an health professional or an assistance and information center which will deliver an opinion independent to you holding account of your needs and your lifestyle. Will know that there exist substitution therapies nicotinic, private clinics specialized in nicotinic weaning, of the groups of mutual aid and support, etc

Stage 3: you move
In addition to helping your organization to face the state of lack, the physical exercise will increase your confidence in you and your wellbeing.

Stage 4: supervise your weight
If you take weight while trying to stop smoking, act as soon as you are separated. In the interval, increase your amount of physical exercises and eat healthily.

Stage 5: gradually, appreciate the beneficial effects…
To stop smoking produced beneficial effects at the end of:
- 20 minutes: your blood pressure and your cardiac rhythm return to the normal.
- 8 hours: your blood oxygen rates return to the normal.
- 24 hours: the carbon monoxide was eliminated from your organization, your lungs start to get rid of nicotinic mucuses and other residues.
- 48 hours: there is no more nicotine in your body, your taste and your sense of smell improved considerably.
- 72 hours: you breathe more easily, your bronchi slacken and your energy level increases.
- 2-12 weeks: your circulation improves in all the body, which makes easier walk and the race definitely.
- 3-9 month: the problems of cough, breath and breathing attenuate, thanks to an improvement of your pulmonary function being able to reach 10%.
- 1 year: the cardiovascular accident risk is tiny room of about a quarter.
- 10 years: the cancer risk of the lung is decreased by half compared to that which a smoker runs. The cardiovascular accident risk becomes again identical to that of a person who smoked forever.