Side Effects Of Quitting Smoking

• It is a very well known fact that smokers who quit smoking, over time, become healthier than those who don't give up this habit. But it is only the brief period after quitting to smoke that one needs to battle. This is so because, the few initial days after you actually quit smoking, the withdrawal symptoms are most prominent.
• A person who has left smoking will feel anxious, irritable, confused and may be even depressed. Also, a slower heart-beat than normal and increased appetite might result from the lack of cigarettes.
• For the first few days, the blood sugar level is also bound to go down quite a bit. As a result of this, one might feel dizziness, concentration lapse and other such behavioral changes. One might also want to have lots of sweet food as a result.
• Because the blood is not getting its regular supply of nicotine, the low blood sugar level will then result in less supply of oxygen to the blood stream and brain. As a result, one might feel light-headiness and nausea as well. It is interesting to find out the relation between the blood sugar level in the body and nicotine. Many people might believe that nicotine supplies sugar to the body, but that could not have been farther from the truth. It simply excites some specific organs as a result of which the amount of sugar that is stored in our body is released.
• The blood pressure and the pulse rate might increase temporarily after you quit smoking which might feel like one is having an anxious and nervousness attack but it is actually the body's way of coping with the situation. The immediate phase after quitting is mainly characterized by a number of gains for the health of a person.
• After about 8 hours of quitting to smoke, the oxygen level in the body begins to go up which reduces the amount of carbon monoxide level. After a day or 24 hours have passed by without a smoke, the chances of heart attack decrease noticeably.
• Regular smoking causes harm to the nerves of the body. After about 48 hours of non-smoking however, the repairing process of the nerves begins. 

Now, that the side-effects of smoking are in front of you, it will serve you really well to quit smoking and start to live healthy.