Discover the short term benefits of quit smoking as well as scientific studies backing them up.

1. Short Term Benefits of Quit
Smoking
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2. Introduction
• You don’t have to wait months or years to
see some of the benefits of quitting.
Research has revealed that some of the
benefits of quitting smoking are almost
immediate and that your body begins to fix
itself few minutes after your last cigarette
and continues in the years that follow. This
article will examine some studies on the
short term benefits of smoking cessation
and discuss their conclusions.

3. Short term benefit no 1
• Your breathing can feel better and you will have
fewer respiratory problems
• This benefit is buttressed by a
study published February,2012. The study
reveals that coughing and other respiratory
challenges get better within weeks of quit
smoking. The research, published in Pediatric
Allergy, Immunology, and Pulmonology, a
quarterly peer-reviewed journal, stated
specifically that 18 to 24-year olds who stop
smoking for at least 14 days report significantly
fewer respiratory indications, particularly
coughing.

4. Short term benefit no 1(2)
• A research team comprising Karen
Calabro, DrPH and Alexander Prokhorov,
MD, PhD, from the University of Texas
MD Anderson Cancer Center,Houston,
analyzed self-reported respiratory
indications among two groups of college
students who smoked 5-10 cigarettes a
day for 1-5 years. One group dropped off
cigarettes for 14 days or longer and the
other group failed to quit smoking.

5. Short term benefit no 1(3)
• Harold Farber, MD, MSPH, Editor of Pediatric
Allergy, Immunology, and Pulmonology and
Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Section of
Pulmonology, Baylor College of Medicine,
Houston, TX lauded the fact that the benefit of
stopping smoking begins in days to weeks–not
years or decades. While stressing that health
care providers can counsel young smokers that
their breathing can be better soon after they quit,
Harold said, “this can help to motivate young
adults to stop smoking before the severe
damage is done.”

6. Short term benefit no 2
• You will be happier and contented with your
health.
• This benefit is supported by a study which
examines life after cigarettes, and concludes
that quitters are both happier and contented with
their health. The research, which focused on
whether smoking cessation can improve the
psychological well-being of quitters, was
published online Dec. 9, 2011 in the Annals of
Behavioral Medicine.

7. Short term benefit no 2(2)
• Smokers have strong beliefs about how smoking
cessation will reduce their quality of life (disrupts
routines, interferes with relationships, leads to a
loss of smoking-related pleasure), but this
research reveals that life without cigarettes is not
all gloomy. In fact, successful quitters are more
satisfied with their lives and feel healthier, both
one year and three years afterwards, than those
who continue to smoke.

8. Short term benefit no 2(3)
• Overall, this new research by Dr. Megan
Piper, from the University of Wisconsin
School of Medicine and Public Health
in the US, and her team provides
substantial evidence that quitting smoking
benefits well-being compared to
continuing smoking.

9. Short term benefit no 3
• Quit smoking will aid your everyday memory
• Aside being good for your health, smoking cessation is
also good for your memory. And this is coming straight
from Northumbria University. A research published in
the September,2011 online edition of Drug and Alcohol
Dependence reveals that
smoking cessation can rejuvenate everyday memory
to virtually the same level as people who had never
smoked before. Academics from the Collaboration for
Drug and Alcohol Research Group at Northumbria
University tested 27 smokers, 18 former smokers and
24 who had never smoked on a real-world retention test.

10. Short term benefit no 3(2)
• Participants were asked to recollect pre-
scheduled tasks at specific locations on a tour of
a university campus. Smokers performed
woefully, recollecting just 59% of tasks, while
those who had quit smoking remembered 74%
of their mandatory tasks. Those who had never
smoked remembered 81% of tasks, making
them the clear leader of the pack.
• Even though we are aware of the huge health
benefits smoking cessation brings to the human
body,this study also reveals how quitting
smoking can be beneficial to everyday memory.

11. Short term benefit no 4
• Smoking cessation improves personality change
• University of Missouri researchers have discovered
that those who cease smoking
show improvements in their entire personality.
• The research, which focused on smokers aged 18-35,
revealed that the category of people who stop smoking
in that age group showed significant drops in impulsivity
and neuroticism, two distinct personality traits that are
usually connected with young adulthood. Impulsivity
refers to doing things without thinking about the effects
while neuroticism means being emotionally pessimistic
and nervous, most of the time.

12. Short term benefit no 4(2)
• The study, “Smoking Desistance and
Personality Change in Emerging and
Young Adulthood,” has been accepted by
the journal Nicotine and Tobacco
Research. The study was co-authored by
Kenneth J. Sher, a professor in the MU
Department of Psychology.

13. Other Short term benefits of quit
smoking
• You smell nice. You don’t have to worry about
smelling like an old ash tray.
• You feel better about yourself as a person
because you’re taking care of your body.
• You save a lot of money.
• No nicotine stained teeth or fingers.
• You don’t have to keep leaving a warm
restaurant to smoke outside.
• You have more overall energy and are better
able to enjoy life.

14. Conclusion
• Read a more detailed article on
quit smoking benefits here
• Read Allen Carr’s Easy Way to Stop Smoking
• You Can Stop Smoking by Jacquelyn
Rogers

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