HEALTH SERVICE

Smoking Cessation

Have you ever wondered what will happen to your body if you quit smoking? You will be astounded to know that the health benefits starts almost immediately.

Why Quit Smoking

After 20 minutes: Your blood pressure and pulse decrease. The temperature of your hands and feet increases. After eight hours: The carbon monoxide level in your blood returns to normal. Oxygen levels in your blood increase.

After 24 hours: Your chance of heart attack decreases.
After 48 hours: Your ability to taste and smell starts to return.
After 72 hours: The bronchial tubes (airways) relax.
After two weeks to three months: Your circulation improves.
After one to nine months: Cilia (tiny hairs) in the lungs regrow, increasing the lung's capacity to handle mucus, clean itself, and reduce infection. Coughing, sinus congestion, fatigue, and shortness of breath also decrease.
After one to five years: Your risk of dying from heart disease is cut to half that of a lifelong smoker's risk.
After 10 years: Your risk of dying from lung cancer drops to almost the same rate as that of a lifelong nonsmoker. Your risk for mouth, larynx, and other cancers decreases. Another important motivator for you to quit smoking is knowing quitting smoking can benefit your friends & family too.

What is Second Hand Smoke?

Secondhand smoke is smoke from burning tobacco products, such as cigarettes, cigars, or pipes but it is alsosmoke that has been exhaled, or breathed out, by the person smoking.Children & adults who never smoked are at risk of serious health complications as well.

Take the leap to a New You now.

Step 1: Find a good reason to quit! (That shouldn’t be hard after all the facts listed here)
Step 2: Talk to your family & friends to get their support (and maybe get some of them to do it with you!)
Step 3: Explore ways on how to succeed by consulting our friendly pharmacists in-store!
Come in and talk to our pharmacist not only for yourself but also if you are trying to get your loved ones to quit as well.

They can give you advise on how to get over the difficult early stages of quitting smoking, the right products to help you quit smoking & how to handle relapse.

References

http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/fact_sheets/secondhand_smoke/general_facts/index.htm
http://www.webmd.com/smoking-cessation/quitting-tobacco-use-getting-ready-to-quit