The body's ability to mend is beauty to behold.
| Within ... |
You can expect ... |
| 20 minutes |
... your blood pressure and pulse rate to return to normal. The temperature of your hands and feet will also have returned to normal. |
| 8 hours |
... your blood oxygen levels to have increased to normal limits and carbon monoxide levels to have dropped to normal. |
| 24 hours |
...your risk of sudden heart attack to have substantially decreased. |
| 48 hours |
... nerve ending to start healing and your sense of smell and taste to begin returning to normal. |
| 72 hours |
... your entire body to test 100% nicotine-free with over 90% of all nicotine metabolites to have now passed through your urine. You can also expect the symptoms of chemical withdrawal to have peaked in intensity. |
| 10 days to 2 weeks |
... your body to have adjusted to the physical functioning without nicotine and the 3,500 particles and more than 500 toxins present in each chew. |
| 1 to 9 months |
... your circulation to have improved substantially, any sinus congestion, fatigue, and shortness of breath to have decreased. Your body's overall energy will have increased. |
| 1 year |
... your excess risk of coronary heart disease to drop to less than half that of a Chewer. |
| 5 years |
... your risk of stroke is reduced to that of a non-Chewer at 5-15 years after quitting. |
| 10 years |
... your risk of death from cancer to have decreased by almost half if you were an average Chewer (one can a day). Your risk of cancer of the mouth, throat and esophagus is now half that of a Chewer's. |
| 15 years |
... your risk of coronary heart disease to now be that of a person who has never chewed. Your overall risk of death has returned to nearly that of a person who has never chewed. |
Sources for the above stop chewing recovery data include the 1990 U.S. Surgeon General's Report on the "Health Benefits of Chewing Cessation, " U.S. National Institute of Health, Medline Plus
