Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. After just an hour of quitting smoking, your pulse rate and blood pressure will start to reduce. (Getty Images) (Javier Zayas ...

Quitting smoking is one of the bravest decisions a person can make. The journey may begin with cravings and mood swings, but your body starts healing the moment you stop. Within hours, your heart rate ...

Even after years of smoking, the body has a remarkable ability to repair itself. Now in a study appearing in ACS' Journal of Proteome Research, scientists report that certain metabolic changes occur ...

A decade-long twin study reveals that an active lifestyle could be the key to managing the growing waistline often seen in people who quit smoking. Study: Associations of smoking status and ...

In a cohort of 13,282 patients with cancer, those who quit smoking within 6 months of their index visit showed nearly double the survival rate compared with those who continued smoking. Only 22.1% of ...

Scientists at the University of Copenhagen discovered that smoking directly triggers the growth of visceral adipose tissue.

Quitting smoking often leads to weight gain due to a combination of decreased metabolism and increased eating. The metabolic boost from nicotine accounts for 31% of weight gain, while increased eating ...