Welcome to the Dr. Berg's Healthy Keto and Interminate Fasting Podcast, where Dr.

Berg takes you on the journey for the truth about getting healthy and losing healthy weight.

So, the question is, how fast do the benefits occur when someone stops smoking?

And this may motivate you to stop smoking.

Within 20 minutes, your blood pressure starts to reduce.

Your heart rate starts to come down.

Within 12 hours, you get the full cleansing effect of carbon monoxide, okay?

What is carbon monoxide?

Well, it's slightly different than carbon dioxide, but what it will do, it locks up the

hemoglobin in your blood and reduces your ability to carry oxygen.

So we don't want carbon monoxide in our blood.

But if you stop smoking within 12 hours, that effect goes away.

Now within 24 hours, one full day, your risk for heart attack starts to decrease.

You get an increase in HDL, which is the good cholesterol, right?

We have a decrease in risk of getting a blood clot.

And your blood pressure comes down further and you get more oxygen.

Now at 48 hours, it's two days, you get the healing or resetting of your nerve

endings, which is going to increase your ability to smell and taste.

Now within 72 hours, it's three days, you deplete your nicotine levels, okay?

So we get rid of the nicotine, but this is where you get withdrawal symptoms,

okay, irritability, moodiness, et cetera.

So what can you do to counter some of these effects?

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