Does anybody know how much smoking one cigarette can take away from you life?
474049
smoking has not been proven to take away any time from your life.  \n\nBesides......what if you never smoked so you could live as long as you wanted to.....then you step out in front of a city bus and get squashed......that city bus is much easier to measure thatn the 'smoking kills' farce.
884456
it will generally be gone within 30 days, longer if you have more than normal body fat, and not so long if you dont...  this is for regular smoking... if it was only once, then it'll clear up in a week
110406
within the first 8 hours after your last,the carbon monoxide levels have already decreased making the level in your body almost normal. within 24 hours the nicotine withdrawl kicks in and that is why most don't make it past a day. if you make it past the third day you in the clear.that's when you start to cough up all kinds of nasty stuff.a few weeks later and it's all self control after that.
1164117
I thought I couldn't either after smoking for 35 years until my 8 yr oldgranddaughter asked me to quit after she was told at school that smoking would kill her granny.   All I have to do when I REALLY want one one is imagine her hurt and scared face.  i QUIT SMOKING A YEAR AGO NEXT MONTH!!!!   I think I could do it because I found something more important to me.  GOOD LUCK!!
865720
I quit smoking back in February.  I smoked about a pack a day for years.  During the withdraw I had a headache for 3 days, and I was grouchy for about 2 weeks.  They say you have to replace one habbit with another.  What I did was started sucking on jolly ranchers and chewing bubble gum.  I also started exercising.  I have never felt better.  I noticed a difference in my breathing after only 2 weeks!!  Just hang in there, and the days will pass and you won't even think about it anymore.  It's also great to go someplace and not worry about being looked down on because of being a smoker.
538778
Yes! All smokers LOVE doing it. It is probably your deepest love second only to a few loved ones. The diferrence is that this one is killing you slowly. One day you'll have to quit, when it will be more difficult and would have already done more damage to your body. So, here are some tips: \n\nJanuary 1, 1987 I had my last cigarette at 1am, after smoking a pack-a-day for over 20 years. Try the following. It will work. You don't even need good luck.\nLocal hospitals offer week-long programs to make you quit smoking. Then you'll need this trick to not go back to it: Don't have that one cigarette for the rest of your life!\nPeople buckle under the intense urge for a cigarette and think that their problem will go away with one cigarette. But that just makes the problem go away temporarily, only to come back with a higher intensity.\nQuitting smoking feels like a loss of a loved one because to the brain it is just that - a loved one. So be prepared for the longing and the pain. Just endure it. It won't kill you. Actually, it will make you live longer.\nAdapt a new lifestyle i.e. eat fruits, go jogging, etc. Do whatever, but once you have gone through the week-long quit-smoking program, DON'T HAVE THAT ONE CIGARETTE NO MATTER WHAT. If you have that one cigarette, you fail and if you don't then you succeed. It is that simple. You do need that week-long program to launch yourself into the wonderful world of non-smoking though. \nOne more thing: you may need to keep the company of non-smokers for a while i.e. at least one year.
772841
Nicotine has a blood half-life of about 60 minutes.  That is, each hour, your body metabolizes half of what is in your blood.\n\nHow long you need to quit to pass your test depends on how much you have in your bloodstream when you quit.  The second site cited below says that you should stop smoking for 7-10 days.\n\nDo yourself a favor and quit for good, if you can.  (Nicotine addiction is, if I've understood my toxicologist friends correctly, the toughest addiction to break.)  It's a filthy and disgusting personal habit.  You and your clothes and your abode smell bad.  Now, it's expensive enough that you have to budget for it too.\n\nGood luck.
434442
Smoking is addictive.  Cigarettes have many different chemicals in them along with tobacco - stuff like Ammonia, Benzene, Formaldehyde, Arsenic to name a few of the worst.  The longer you smoke the harder it is to give it up and when someone does it is usually because of a major health crises.  I know because I have seen.  I have never smoked but both my parents did.  My father had to give it up when he needed a bypass and his chances were given less than a 50% survival not because of his heart but because of the shape his lungs were in.  Smoking had done so much damage that no doctor was sure he would be able to make it out from under the anesthesia. Luckily he did and hasn't smoked since.  He also used to tell my brother and myself not to smoke because even though he knew the dangers he could not at the time quit.
809027
Smoking. It's an addiction worse than anything!  I tried to quit smoking once & I swear people said they were about to call a priest to do an exorcism LOL
541902
It can take 30 minutes to an hour for the effects of a cigarette to wear off and for blood pressure to return to baseline.
4112
Within 20 minutes of last cigarette: Blood pressure drops to normal Pulse drops to normal rate Body temperature of hands and feet increase to normal \n\nWithin 8 hours: Carbon dioxide level in blood drops to normal Oxygen level in blood increases to normal \n\nWithin 24 hours: Chance of heart attack decreases \n\nWithin 48 hours: Nerve endings start to regrow Ability to smell and taste enhances \n\nWithin 48 - 72 hours: Nicotine leaves the body \n\nWithin 72 hours: Bronchial tubes relax, making breathing easier Lung capacity increases \n\nWithin 2 weeks to 3 months: Circulation improves Walking becomes easier Lung function increases up to 30% \n\nWithin 1 to 9 months: Coughing, sinus congestion, fatigue and shortness of breath decrease Cilia regrow in lungs, increasing ability to handle mucus, clean the lungs and reduce infection Body's overall energy level increases \n\nWithin 5 years: Lung cancer death rate for average smoker (one pack a day) decreases from 137 per 100,000 people to 72 per 100,000 (after 10 years, rate drops to 12 deaths per 100,000 - or almost the rate of a non-smoker) \n\nWithin 10 years: Pre-cancerous cells are replaced Other cancers, such as those of the mouth, larynx, esophagus, bladder, kidney and pancreas decrease (there are 30 chemicals in tobacco smoke that cause cancer) \n\nALL BENEFITS ARE LOST WHEN YOU SMOKE JUST 1 CIGARETRE A DAY!
433456
Smoking.  Haven't had a cigarette in 20 years now.  Tried cold turkey 3 times and failed... but then I got so sick with the flu that I didn't WANT to smoke for three days... and when I got better  the withdrawal was over so I decided to ride it out.  One of the best things I ever did for myself!
18924
Thats going to be 851 hours and 40 minutes (or 51,100 minutes a year) a year exactly.  So, if you smoked for 14 years, that would be 11923 hours and 20 minutes in 14 years.  That equates to 496 days and 19 hours and 20 minutes for the whole 14 years.  496 days is 16 monhts and 16 days 19 hours, and 20 minutes.  This is taken that a month is 30 days.
595258
stop smoking that thing
712218
A long time. It will never really go away completely, but at least you won't be getting worse. I grew up in a family of smokers and now not a single person in my family smokes, its one of the best decisions you can make.
368679
If you lost 2 years of your life for every cigarette you smoke...wouldn't everybody be dead after just a couple of packs?
468817
Yes. Smoking. I was 22 when my grandmother died. She was the first person that died when I was an adult, and death really sank in. I just decided to stop smoking the day we buried her. I did it cold turkey, with the help of those little baby carrots.