The benefits from quitting smoking are legion and the great thing is that many of them start as soon as you stub out that last cigarette. Let's look at what happens. As soon as you put out that last cigarette, the nicotine levels in your body and bloodstream immediately fall as your body begins to process nicotine. As the nicotine is flushed out of your system, you start to get the withdrawal symptoms and the urge to light up. But hold off just a little and the nicotine in your body gets less and less until it's completely gone and the addiction is over. As the nicotine is leaving your body, your blood pressure gets lower. Your blood becomes cleaner and your circulation more efficient which means your heart can pump more oxygen around your body. Meanwhile, your lungs are beginning to clean themselves in a way they could never do when you were filling them with toxic smoke many times a day. This auto-cleaning process takes a few weeks and may cause you to cough more than you did when you smoked. Don't worry, this is just your lungs finally able to clean themselves. These cardiovascular improvements will show in you daily life. You'll will notice that you can walk and run more easily. Your heart rate stays low when you climb stairs, for example. And you won't get out of breath because your lung capacity is improving. You should find, too, that you get fewer colds,coughs or sinus infection. Within a few months of quitting smoking, you'll have a reduced risk of developing a major smoking-related disease. These conditions include various types of cancer especially of the lungs, mouth, throat, and esophagus, together with heart disease. The benefits from quitting smoking do not extend to you alone but also to your family, friends, indeed anyone that you spend a lot of time with. Not longer will you force them to be passive smokers. Also quitting smoking will allow to you to come in from the cold. Most of society is anti-smoking there days and as a smoker you were always something of an outcast. You no longer have to huddle in the cold with other addicts puffing away at the addictive white sticks. And if all these benefits from quitting smoking were not enough, just think of all the extra money you'll have. Governments know they can raise taxes on tobacco to outrageous levels and there'll still be people willing to pay. Decide today that you're not one of them.