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If you’ve been smoking for a while, you might be thinking of quitting smoking even worth it? Maybe the cravings and nicotine withdrawal put you off the whole idea. You wonder, “The damage is done, so does it make any difference now?”
Cigarette smoking is one of the leading causes of death in the United States, and all over the world. Smoking releases thousands of chemicals into your body including more than 7,000 chemicals in tobacco smoke, and 70 of them can cause cancer. The result is damage not only to your lungs but also to your heart and many other body structures.
But even if you’ve smoked for many years, you can inverse these effects and experience good health benefits from the early hours of your last cigarette to the decades after you quit.
Your body has an amazing ability to heal itself, and it happens rapidly than you think. Health benefits after quitting cigarettes begin slowly continue to improve over time.
Some key points and detailed facts before starting:
Quitting cigarettes means breaking the cycle of addiction and essentially rewiring our minds to stop craving nicotine.
To be successful, smokers that want to quit need to have an executable plan to beat cravings and triggers.
