Benefits of Quitting Smoking

Wondering about the benefits of quitting smoking? Read on!

Considering how devastating smoking is to your body, it’s completely amazing how fast it starts to respond and regain its health.

Think about this:

• Stop smoking for just 20 minutes and your heart rate will start to return to normal
• Smokers’ lungs are filled with carbon monoxide (a poison). Within half a day of quitting, your lungs will have the same level of carbon monoxide as a non-smoker
• Sometime in the first three months of quitting, your chances of heart attack drops
• As fast as within one month of quitting, your shortness of breath decreases
• One year after quitting, you have half the chances of heart disease as a smoker

And the benefits continue as you stay quit…

• Your risk of stroke returns to that of a non-smoker
• Your risks of various cancers (lung, mouth, esophagus, bladder, stomach) decrease
• Stay quit for 15 years and you have the same chances of developing heart disease as someone who has never smoked

But none of this is going to happen unless you quit.

So, … start today. Quit!

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