The Many Benefits to Quitting SmokingWritten by Dwayne Garrett
Besides fact that you will no longer smell like an ashtray, quitting smoking, at any age and after any number of years, will extend your life. It will also improve quality of time that you have left. These are things that you need to keep in mind to help you quit and reaffirm decision that you made. The funny thing about quitting is that most smokers want to quit, feel terrible about smoking and proud when they make decision. A few days to months away from product and they start thinking that they want to do it again. A reminder is in order, at this point, of benefits they have and will continue to receive from kicking habit. Immediate benefits are, well, immediate. After just 20 minutes your blood pressure and pulse drop to a normal rate. The temperature of your hands and feet will increase to normal. In 8 hours, carbon monoxide level in your blood drops to normal and oxygen level in your blood goes up to normal. You are no longer hypoxic ( a lower than normal level of oxygen in your blood and body tissues) like you have been daily for years. In only 24 hours, your chance of a heart attack starts to decrease. In 48 hours, your nerve endings begin to re-grow and your sense of smell and sense of taste improve. This is around time that you begin to smell cigarette smoke clearly and realize how disgusting it really is. In 72 hours, if not using any nicotine replacement products like patches or gum, you are nicotine free. It is all downhill from here, even though it may not feel like it yet. Beginning in only 2 weeks and continuing through first 3 months, your circulation will improve and all forms of exercise will become easier. Your lung function will increase up to 30 percent and you will have much more energy. You will also lose that annoying smokers cough and will stop needing to clear your throat all of time due to inflammation in your airway. One month out and continuing through 9 months smoke free, and lungs really begin to heal. The cilia (small hairs) in your lung begin to re-grow and go about their job of keeping your lungs clean and clear. You will get sick with respiratory illnesses and sinus infections much less often than you had in past.
| | Christopher Reeve To Have Promoted Basement LabWritten by Gerald Armstrong
You have my permission to publish this article electronically or in print, free of charge, as long as bylines are included. A courtesy copy of your publication would be appreciatedChristopher Reeve To Have Promoted Basement Lab—Close to Cure Chrisopher Reeve has died. But his vision of a “Cure” has not. Mr. Reeve, who became a quadripilegic after a horse riding accident in 1995, was best known as advocate for stem cell research which promises cures for spinal cord injuries. Shortly before his death he had planned to get behind a little known biotech driven offshore By President Bush’s restrictions on stem cell research. The “Cure” didn’t reach Christopher Reeve in time. But a cure for paralysis that plagued star –and ultimately led to his death may be in test tubes in a basement lab in a small carribean island. People all over world are mouning actor and activist, but scientists at Gen Cells Cures lab were particularly saddened by news. No one except
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