Here is a small overview of the quit day by day – your quit smoking timeline.
But first of all, I must remind you of a few things you should do in the days leading up to your smoking cessation. A really good idea is to bring together a lot of the last days of cigarette butts, in a glass jar or similar, and fill it just over halfway up with water. So whenever you are in an emergency and close to fall in and start smoking again, you can take a little sniffer, the smell in itself should give you a little extra time to regain the decision to stop … It is very disgusting, I can promise you.
Of course the quit smoking symptoms described below depends on whether or not you use quit smoking drugs, like quit smoking pills, quit smoking acupuncture or similar stop smoking aids. But the stop smoking benefits – they are guaranteed.
Quit Smoking Timeline – Day 1
You’re on the your way, you maybe feel a little strange, but it is quite normal, remember that it is a new feeling for you not to smoke all the time. Quite a few feels, as if they are about to be sick. You might also find it hard to concentrate, but remember that it is quite normal, and enjoy that your blood pressure, your blood circulation and your skin temperature is already normalized, and the risk of heart attack is much less than before.
Quit Smoking Timeline – Day 2
Most are experiencing day 2 as being very restless, thinking often of smoking, and you are probably also a bit annoying to be near. This is quite normal and is just your body’s signals to you, that it is starting to getting weaned from nicotine. Your blood is now flowing virtually unimpeded through the body again, and this can affect you in many ways, but you just have to push it to side – this should not be so difficult at this time.
Quit Smoking Timeline – Day 3
Today you will again begin to taste the things you put into the mouth, and your sense of smell starts improving… Physically however, this is the day where it begins to become difficult, as your mind and your ego will try to fool you into thinking that this is the wrong decision you have taken, and your body will “scream after nicotine” …
Try instead to take a walk or a run, you already are in a better condition, and it would be good for you to get the pulse a bit raised.
Quit Smoking Timeline – Day 4
Now your body really starts reacting to the lack of nicotine, and many have constipation, or the opposite, it will be hard to find peace… Your throat and lungs starts to become cleaner, and will probably cause you to cough slightly in the next day. However, this is a healthy sign, remember that your throat have been really greasy in and sticky for a long time, and you are not accustomed to a full functioning throat. Just hold out, in a few days is the worst is over. Your body is becoming detoxed, and you are well on track to become a non-smoker for the rest of your life.
Quit Smoking Timeline – Day 5
From this day there will be longer between the feeling that you just need a cigarette, and it becomes increasingly easier for you to stick with your decision … You can also enjoy than you are now breathing a lot easier, and now your senses, smell and taste senses are almost perfect and on the level of a non smokers senses.
Quit Smoking Timeline – Day 6 and 7
Less symptoms every day and your smoking cessation is becoming much easier, 7 days is actually a full week, and now the worst is over. Now you can release the emotional energy which has been used for worrying over your cessation. Consider taking up some kind of sports, start taking walks and get some fresh air.
Quit Smoking Timeline – Day 8 – 10
Now you are at a stage where smokers around you are starting to smell awful, all while you begin to smell better … Your breath will be fresh, and your voice will now also be clean and clear in tone. Now you’re almost home free …
Quit Smoking Timeline – Day 11 – 12
Now you should start getting brighter and more beautiful teeth, unless you consume large amounts of cola, coffee or wine. Your skin now has a brighter tone, and is significantly nicer to touch. At the same time the morning coughing leaves you completely, your throat is almost normal, and only very sensitive people still feels some morning cough or similar.
Quit Smoking Timeline – Day 13 and 14
Now you can actually say that you are free of smoking, since you haven’t smoked for 2 weeks, and you should no longer have any physical reasons to start again. You will generally have more energy, simply because your body is not burdened daily of having to extract the extra poison out of your blood, your immune system is in much better shape, and you will now easily avoid colds and the like. Cigarettes will now take up less and less in your universe, and as long as you understand that just one small cigarette, yes just one or two wheezes involves an imminent risk of finding yourself back in the smokers role again, you are good.
Quit Smoking Timeline – Weeks and months after …
Now it will be reasonably easy to be a non smoker, although the withdrawal symptoms may not entirely disappear until after 3 to 6 months. As a non smoker, you may be tempted to smoke just a little – to a party or on a holiday, but statistics show, that only 1 in one thousand former smokers can keep it up as a “party smoker” without falling back into dependency.
Do not let yourself fall into the trap, stay off smoking the rest of your life, and enjoy a healthier and richer life!
Why not treat yourself with a t-shirt to celebrate your accomplishment?
It’s only fair to warn off your social circle 
Good luck with your smoking cessation!
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