The Health Benefits of Quitting Smoking

One of the most famous reasons for quitting smoking is health reasons. We all know that smoking can be detrimental to our health – after all it is written on almost all cigarette packets. But what health benefits can we hope to gain from not smoking?

The Health Benefits of Quitting Smoking
There are a wide range of benefits to quitting smoking, some of it well known, some of it less so. Obviously the most famous is that you are far less likely to get lung cancer – and that in and of itself is a perfect reason to give up smoking. But if you want some more we can do that for you.

- Younger looking skin. Smoking releases free radicals into your body, which are responsible for damaging cells and causing aging. When you quit smoking not only do you stop this but you allow more oxygen and nutrients to get to your skin, helping repair the skin cells and make them look younger.

- Better sex! Amazingly sex can be better after you give up smoking. The increase in oxygen take up around the body can allow men's erections to be harder and last longer, and women to have more intense orgasms! Seems a good reason to quit to us.

- Reduce stress. Did you know that smokers are more stressed than non-smokers? The nicotine addiction means that your body becomes stressed between cigarettes, waiting for your next 'fix'. The reason a cigarette seems relaxing is you get more tense wanting it.

- Improve your health. It is not only cancer that you avoid by quitting smoking. Within 2 – 10 weeks of giving up the cigarettes your circulation and oxygen intake increases, allowing a boost to your immune system, meaning you fight off illness and infection better.

- Better taste. When you quit smoking you will find that your sense of taste (and that of smell) will increase dramatically without the smoke, nicotine and hundreds of other chemicals in your body dulling the senses.

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