WATERVILLE - Connie Coggins, HealthReach President & CEO, is happy to announce a new partnership between HealthReach Community Health Centers and The MaineHealth Center for Tobacco Independence (CTI). CTI administers the statewide tobacco treatment contract on behalf of the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Maine Department of Health and Human Services. Under this
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What happens when you quit smoking?
Becoming completely tobacco-free, including smoking, vaping or other tobacco use, is the best thing you can do for your health.
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No matter how old you are or how long you’ve smoked, quitting can help you live longer and be healthier. It will be one of the best decisions you make for your health.
Within 20 minutes of smoking that last cigarette, your body begins a series of changes that continue for years.
In 20 minutes:
•Pulse rate drops to normal
•Body temperature of hands and feet increases to normal
Quit today, start living tomorrow
Quitting smoking and vaping is hard, but you can do it. No matter how long you ve smoked or vaped, quitting can help you live longer and be healthier.
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Smoking harms nearly every organ in your body and negatively impacts your overall health and well-being. It is known to cause heart disease, stroke, lung diseases, osteoporosis, cancer, and death. Becoming completely tobacco-free, including smoking, vaping or other tobacco use, is the best thing you can do for your health.
can do it.
• Quitting can reverse the damage that smoking has had on your health and reduce your chance of dying from smoking-related disease.