Stop Chewing Recovery Timetable

The body’s ability to mend itself after quitting dip is a beautiful thing to behold.

Timeline

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.
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