Younger-looking and healthier body after quitting smoking
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Younger-looking and healthier body after quitting smoking
When you quit smoking, you'll reap many physical benefits.
- Your taste buds come back to life.
- Your sense of smell improves.
- Your voice may improve as irritation of the voice box (larynx) from cigarette smoke is reduced.
- Your hair and breath will no longer smell like smoke.
- You can breathe more deeply.
- You will have more energy and stamina.
You'll look younger and healthier.
- People who smoke have more wrinkles and other signs of aging.
- People who smoke are 4 times more likely to have their hair turn gray prematurely.1
- Men who smoke are twice as likely to be bald or balding as people who do not smoke.1
References
Citations
Mosley JG, Gibbs AC (1996). Premature grey hair and hair loss among smokers: A new opportunity for health education? BMJ, 313(7072): 1616.
Credits
| Author | Debby Golonka, MPH |
| Author | Caroline Rea, RN, BS, MS |
| Editor | Susan Van Houten, RN, BSN, MBA |
| Associate Editor | Michele Cronen |
| Primary Medical Reviewer | Kathleen Romito, MD - Family Medicine |
| Specialist Medical Reviewer | John Hughes, MD - Psychiatry |
| Last Updated | July 24, 2007 |
| Last updated: | July 24, 2007 |
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| Author: | Caroline Rea, RN, BS, MS |
| Reviewed By: | Kathleen Romito, MD - Family Medicine, John Hughes, MD - Psychiatry |
| Editors: | Susan Van Houten, RN, BSN, MBA, Michele Cronen |
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