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.

Christopher 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.