Here are just a few of the many benefits of being smoke-free:

• Within 20 minutes of stopping smoking your blood pressure, pulse rate and body temperature return to normal.
• Within 8 hours your carbon monoxide level in your blood drops to normal.
• Your smokers breath begins to disappear and you no longer smell like an ashtray.
• Within three days your chance of having a heart attack decreases and your nerve endings begin to redevelop.
• Your ability to smell and taste improves dramatically.
• Breathing becomes easier.
• Within two months your circulation and lung functions improve. Lungs become cleaner and reduce
• Infection and coughing and fatigue improve.
• Within 2 weeks to 3 months your lung functioning increases up to 30 percent.
• After one year your chances of having a heart attack is reduced by half.
• The chance of getting cancer from smoking is greatly reduced.
• Stroke risk is reduced to that of a non-smoker after 5-15 years
• After 10 years your risk of having a heart attack or stroke is similar to someone who has never smoked.
• You will save thousands of dollars every year. A one pack a day smoker wastes more than $4,000 every year. Multiply $4,000 by the number of years you have smoked.

Overview of health problems include:

Reduced sense of smell Reduced sense of taste Staining of teeth Plaque on teeth Gum disease Increased cavities Ashtray breath Ugly staining of fingers Premature aging and increased wrinkles Anxiety about health problems caused by smoking Eyes sting and water more Blindness and cataracts Itchy eyes Cancers of the lips Cancer of the mouth Cancer of the throat Cancer of the larynx Lung cancer Cancer of the esophageus

Liver cancer Stomach cancer Cancer of the pancreas Colon cancer Kidney cancer Bladder cancer Cancer of cervix Sore throat Cough and increased phlegm Shortness of breath Decreased lung capacity Reduced fitness Increased colds and flu Pneumonia Asthma Inflammation of airways Poor circulation Chronic bronchitis Emphysema Blocks and weakens arteries of the heart

So easy a monkey can do it!
In China, the number 1 cigarette consuming nation, a "smoking" chimpanzee at the Qinling Sarari Park named Ai Ai quit smoking chimp at the Qinling Safari Park in north-China, began smoking cigarettes given to her buy zoo visitors. When her second mate died in 1997 her keepers. But Ai Ai recently kicked the habit through music therapy and exercise. The Xinhua news agency said she "squealed for cigarettes colourful." Her zookeeper said Ai Ai got fried dishes and dumplings at each meal, along with her usual milk, banana and rice. She also got to wear a Walkman and listen to pop music.

Mental addiction. Read through the following list and discover which triggers or smoking associations apply to you. Do you smoke when:

Stressed Bored Lonely After a meal Driving With coffee

Watching TV With alcohol Socially On phone Escape

These situations have all become powerful associations in your life and part of your belief system. Think Quit will help you disconnect the belief that smoking reduces stress or coffee tastes better with a cigarette and all your other smoking associations. When you say to yourself, "a meal is not complete without a cigarette" then this becomes a habit and a belief. The problem is you have conditioned yourself to respond and think in certain ways. Think Quit will assist you in disconnecting all the current connections you have to smoking including the belief you are a smoker. Creating new conditioned responses is easier than you think. You will install new associations and new responses in your subconscious/unconscious mind.