Effects of smoking on heart rate

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#1

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When doing the graphs for the quantified flu data visualizations it occurred to me that I accidentally did an interesting experiment this year by ‘quitting’ smoking twice (for 3 weeks in January and now for nearly a week). So I decided to make a quick heart rate plot analogous to the sickness symptom plots around the dates I stopped/started smoking.

And the effect is very neat! Just a few days after quitting my resting heart rate and nightly sleeping heart rate decreases for around 10 bpm. And of course the same effect holds vice versa, a few days after starting to smoke again my HR shoots up 10 bpm again.

Either way, for now I hope I’ll not add to that data collection any more. :wink:

#2

Beautiful visualization and so clearly depicts the positive effect of stopping smoking! Bastian would you by any chance mind sharing the code to make this beautiful plot?

#3

Thanks, glad you like it!

Here’s the notebook with the whole code: https://exploratory.openhumans.org/notebook/86/

It’s a rather ugly mixture of Python for the data processing and R/ggplot2 for the visualization :slight_smile:

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