Wellness Corner

Most likely you already know that you should probably quit smoking if you're at all concerned about your health. Smoking ages your appearance and can cause significant ongoing health problems in the body. The older you are when you quit smoking, the more damage you'll already have done to your body and the longer it will take to reverse that damage. So there's no doubt that you ought to quit smoking sooner rather than later ... but just quitting smoking isn't a cure-all for your body.

As revealed in a recent study about the impact of smoking on the heart and lungs, different parts of your health will react to the cessation of smoking differently. Heart risk in women who have quit smoking goes down significantly and fairly rapidly. In other words, quit smoking today and you can save yourself from heart disease. However, problems in the lungs that are caused by smoking will take a lot longer to go away in comparison with the risk posed to the heart.

What this means is that quitting smoking definitely results in immediate and long-term benefits to your body. However, the exact changes that will take place as you age without smoking may vary depending upon the areas of the body that have been impacted by your bad habit.

Question of the Day: Why not stop smoking today?

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