How does quitting smoking effect your heart? -
I-ve recently (about a month) quit smoking, and my PA suggested I see a heart specialist because my numbers didn-t look right, so I did, and he says she must have got a bad reading, so do you think quitting smoking may have had an effect on the reading?
Your answer doesn-t give details about what kind of tests you had done, but I can tell you that one of the biggest risks of smoking is atherosclerosis (hardening of the arteries). Atherosclerosis, in turn, causes a plethora of health problems in almost all body systems (ie. diabetes, heart attack, renal failure, stroke, etc etc!)
As I said before, I don-t know what type of tests your doctors performed, so I-ll bet that atherosclerosis is one of your problems, but I can-t give much more speculation than that.
Congratulations on quitting smoking, as this will dramatically improve your health (the longer you go without smoking, the greater your benefits will be).
Depending on how old you are, how long you have been smoking, and how much you smoked, will depend on how much of a long-term effect smoking has had on your Cardiovascular system.
Smoking decreases the oxygen levels in your blood, narrows your blood vessels, makes your blood more sticky and fatty, and damages the vessel walls. All of these things lead to increased work load for the heart, and predispose you to heart attack and stroke (and other infarcts)
It is a GREAT thing that you have stopped smoking. I can not stress that enough. You and the entire world should be proud of you, and i wish you the best of luck in your (hopefully longer now) non-smoking life.
However, it takes a while for your body to reverse the damage that smoking has done. Not knowing your detailed history, i can not say what exactly the reason for your abnormal reading is, but quitting smoking definately did more good than harm.
Quitting is the absolute best thing you could have done for your heart and your body.
It depends on how long you have been smoking.If you have smoked for years ,yes , I do believe that it could be deadly to your health.