QUIT on CAMPUS
Want to stop smoking?Stop having to stand outside in the cold this winter to have a smoke?
Be able to breathe easier?
Save those dollars for a healthier outcome?
You will feel the benefits of quitting straight away as your body repairs itself.
Depending on the number of cigarettes you smoke, typical benefits of stopping are:
- After twelve hours almost all of the nicotine is out of your system.
- After twenty-four hours the level of carbon monoxide in your blood has dropped dramatically. You now have more oxygen in your bloodstream.
- After five days most nicotine by-products have gone.
- Within days your sense of taste and smell improves.
- Within a month your blood pressure returns to its normal level and your immune system begins to show signs of recovery.
- Within two months your lungs will no longer be producing extra phlegm caused by smoking.
- After twelve months your increased risk of dying from heart disease is half that of a continuing smoker.
- Stopping smoking reduces the incidence and progression of lung disease including chronic bronchitis and emphysema.
- After ten years of stopping your risk of lung cancer is less than half that of a continuing smoker and continues to decline (provided the disease is not already present).
- After fifteen years your risk of heart attack and stroke is almost the same as that of a person who has never smoked.
These benefits apply to people with and without smoking-related diseases. So it is worth having a go.
See also the QUIT home page.
The Counselling Service is able to arrange for an Information Seminar, and/or a one hour, 8 week QUIT program to be offered in your workplace at a negotiated time and reasonable cost.
For more information, call the Counselling Service on 8344 6927.