Changes you will feel after quiting

Here's some of the changes you will feel immediately withing the first few weeks of stopping smoking.

You blood pressure will adjust itself and return toward normal.

You nicotine and carbon monoxide levels will drop to 50% after a day and disappear several weeks later.  Your body will starts its own journey of cleansing your system. 

Oxygen levels in you body will return to normal after 8 hours.

The first few days will see you go through the withdrawal phase. This is nothing more than your body telling you that all is as should be and I am just cleaning and making a lot of sound.  It will not all be cumfortable so perservere and put up with the shit that comes with it. Hey, you've started it! So says the body in its own body language. :)

Your body talks to you in symptoms.  So, just listen to it and let it do its job.  Don't stand in its way nor feed it with any more crap.

Your mind will tell you otherwise.  The mind is the culprit here. Your mind is so easy to trick and it brings itself down, "dragging" the body along with it to the pits of the earth.  Don't pay any attention to your mind in the first week at all. Tell it to get a sock in it.  You will have a constant dialog between yourself all throughout the time during this phase. Don't give into the mind.  Treating the body in kindness by looking after it in the best way possible will keep you in the right track.

After a week or two the world starts to open up to you because your body has regained the faculties of taste and smell that was clogged up for many years since you started smoking.

Your health improves and you're in a better mood and in self control.  Your self confidence jumps back in as well.

Few months later the breathing problems will have improved. You lungs will be better and cleaner but not out of the woods yet. More work required. It's not an overnight process. You've stuff crap into your body and that stuff takes a toll out of your body's functions. So, give it time. You will feel better.

To speed up even further regaining your health back then what you need is to change how you eat food. Food is important to us but like everything else we need to feed the right foods at the right levels of each nutrient to stay healthy and functional.

Food wise you should eat more fruits and vegetables. Almost 80% of your food intake should be fresh fruits and vegetables.  Limit processed foods only if you are unable to get the fresh stuff.

Limit your meat intake too.  As an adult we don't require a lot of protein from animal flesh - we can get them from non-meat products. Besides, cultivated animails contribute to the pollution factor on this planet and make global warming worse.

Don't worry, if you eat correctly you will not gain any weight.  You body will require more food to remove the rubbish that is in your system.  If you find that you are gaining many kilograms or pounds then you need to make sure your food intake has a good distribution of nutrients. Go here to read more about why your body is fat and how to loose it. Reasons behind Fat loss.