13 Wonderful Ways Your Body Changes When You Quit Smoking

Forty-Eight Hours After You Quit Smoking Your Food Will Taste Better

Taste buds allow humans to experience the range of taste perception including sour, salty, sweet, bitter and umami. The human tongue has two thousand to eight thousand taste buds. Smoking changes the shape and ability of the taste buds to function properly. Studies have shown that smokers' taste buds are flatter than non-smokers' and their sense of experiencing taste is dulled. Smokers compared with non-smokers could similarly recognize the tastes sweet, sour and salty, but they were significantly less able to recognize bitter tastes even small amounts. Some researchers have even concluded that smoking can eventually permanently kill off the taste buds. Just 48 hours after quitting smoking, the nerve endings on the taste buds will begin improving and once again, you will soon be able to experience smells and tasting to the fullest.