If youre a smoker, we know that its very difficult to convince yourself of the need to quit smoking. But we assure you, there are just so many reasons why you have to quit smoking. So before we proceed with helpful tips to quit smoking, lets enumerate the benefits that youll enjoy once you quit smoking.

Why dont we concentrate on the lighter side first? People who smoke tend to have bad breath and yellow teeth. Once you quit smoking however, youll never have to restrain yourself with a slight smile one that doesnt show your teeth to your disadvantage, that is. And you dont have to worry anymore if youre going to turn your date off with your wonderfully stale breath!

The second advantage that youll enjoy once you quit smoking is that most people would tend to have a better impression of you. Nowadays, only a few people are untouched by nicotine addiction and if youre not into smoking, people would tend to think that youre a disciplined and reliable person.

But those are just the lighter side of things. Lets concentrate next on the cold hard facts. Once you quit smoking, changes could start happening in your life in just twenty minutes.

In less than half an hour, your heartbeat immediately drops and by the way thats a good thing because when you smoke, your heart rate is higher than normal. In half a day, the carbon monoxide level in your body goes back to normal as well. In two to twelve weeks, youll enjoy even more health-related benefits such as improved circulation and increased lung function. In nine months at most, youll be in possession of cleaner and better lungs and the tendency to cough will greatly decrease. Lastly, youll also feel that youre not as short of breath as you used to be.

One year after your decision to quit smoking, your excess risk of having a heart coronary disease is already 50% less of a smokers.

In as early as five years after your decision to quit smoking, the chances that youll have a stroke is already equal to that of a non-smoker!

In as early as a decade, the probability that youll die of lung cancer which is the fate of most people who dont want to quit smoking is half of a continuing smoker already! And in fifteen years time, the likelihood that youll experience heart coronary disease one of the most serious risks that all chain smokers face is that of a non-smokers!