🦷 Breath and gums: how much does quitting really change?
Your mouth is the closest place tobacco touches. What actually changes for your breath and gums when you quit.
Sitting in a dentist's chair, there's nowhere to hide.
The light is on your face and your mouth is open. Someone else looks at a place you can't see. Behind the teeth, the gum line, the back of the tongue. A mouth you normally don't think about suddenly feels like a record of how you've been living.
The smell of tobacco stays in the mouth.
Not only right after a cigarette. It stays on the surface of the teeth, the tongue, the gums, in your clothes and your breath. You may be used to it, but someone talking to you up close can tell. Bad breath may be the health signal its owner is the last to notice.