Your body tends to recover from the ill effects of smoking is one of the best things about quitting smoking. Although, it takes many years for your body to recover completely, but your body starts healing itself within a quarter of an hour. Here are some of the common things that you'll note in the coming days after stopping smoking.

• Normal blood pressure and heart rate within 20 minutes after quitting smoking. Even the oxygen level in your blood will stabilize within 12 hours of stopping. However, the nicotine level in the bloodstream will only stabilize after 20 hour.
• You may feel the anxiety and withdrawal symptoms one day after quitting. Don't get disappointed or turn back; just move on.
• You will experience severe cravings for cigarettes between 2-3 days from the last time you have smoked. Remember that as the time goes the length and intensity of these craving also decreases. You'll be able to breath easily as your lungs are healing.
• You will experience very few symptoms of withdrawal after a week. By this time, your body will be cleansed of most of the addictive properties of nicotine. Make sure to stick with it as it only gets better from here.
• It is possible that within 2-3 weeks you won't feel any withdrawals. You will have taken control of your life again as the urges to smoke will have dissipated by this time. Even the symptoms of irritability, depression and sleeplessness associated with smoking will reduce to a great extent.
• The first month after quitting smoking is considered to be the hardest. Just keep in mind that you'll be rewarded in the end. Inform your family and friends about your decision to quit so that they can understand your irritation in the initial period and understand.