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As anyone who has stopped smoking can tell you, when you quit there are good effects and bad effects. The bad effects are temporary, but the good effects are, for the most part, permanent and may even get better as you maintain your status as a non-smoker. In the end, the good effects are well worth tolerating the bad effects and not everyone has all the symptoms associated with stopping smoking, or experiences them to a greater or lesser degree than others.

Withdrawal symptoms are the worst of the negative effects when you stop smoking. Some people actually lose the craving for a cigarette within a couple of weeks after they stop smoking, but for the majority of people its much longer. Your appetite may increase, spurring weight gain. You may awaken during the night for a week or so, and experience difficulty concentrating for two weeks or less.

Longer lasting negative effects that usually disappear with in the first month after you stop smoking include depression, restlessness, mild anxiety and irritability, sometimes accompanied by aggression. No, you wont turn into a raving maniac, but smoking is, after all, an addiction, and its withdrawal symptoms effect both the body and emotions. When I quit smoking, I was angry that I was depriving myself of something I had enjoyed so much for 36 years!

There are many more positiveand more immediateeffects when you stop smoking. Within just eight hours the nicotine and carbon monoxide levels are reduced by half, oxygen levels return to normal and your circulation improves. Within 24 hours, both nicotine and carbon monoxide are completely gone from your body and within 48 hours after you stop smoking, your decline in lung function halts, as does the excess risk of lung cancer. You get all these benefits in just 2 days after you stop smoking!

Your skin tone will improve in just a month after you stop smoking. You will lose the grayish tinge of your skin gained while you smoked, and it will look smoother because some of the wrinkles caused by constant internal and external exposure to the chemicals in cigarette smoke. Somewhere between 3 and 9 months the coughing and wheezing you experienced before you stopped smoking will cease, but you will have been breathing easier since just a few hours after your last cigarette.

A year after you stop smoking your risk of heart attack is only half that of when you were a smoker. Within 15 years after you stop smoking your risk of heart attack is the same as if you never smoked at all. Two years after you stop smoking, the build-up of tar is completely gone, and the bronchial alveoli (oxygen sacs) function returns to normal.

Youll feel better about yourself. Its quite an accomplishment to stop smoking, and is something you have the right to be proud of! Your body, hair, clothes, home, car, and even other family members will no longer smell of cigarette smoke. Your sense of smell will improve and youll be less likely to experience dry eyes. Aging of the skin frequently slows down for people who stop smoking, too, and they are less prone to colds and other respiratory illnesses than people who smoke.

As you can see, the benefits you gain when you stop smoking far outweigh and are longer lasting than the negative effects. Now can you really say you still have a reason to not stop smoking? If you're looking to quit smoking and you're actually looking for a way to do it ON THE FIRST TRY, then CLICK HERE to Learn The Step-By-Step System that led over 95% of smokers to quit on their very first try!