No matter how long you have been a smoker, it’s never too late to quit. Within minutes of your last cigarette your body begins to recuperate from the damage smoking causes, so the sooner you quit the better!
After Your Last Cigarette…
Within 20 minutes both your blood pressure and heart rate will decrease and the temperature of your hands and feet will increase.
Eight hours after, the carbon dioxide levels in your body decrease to normal while oxygen levels rise.
Your risk of heart attack decreases within the first day, and you begin to regain your senses of taste and smell.
Your lungs and circulation begin to improve within the first couple weeks.
In as little as one month after quitting, you experience decreases in sinus congestion and infections, coughing, shortness of breath and overall fatigue.
One year after quitting you have cut your risk of heart disease in half.
Also, at $4.00 a pack someone who smokes one pack per day saves over $1,400 a year by quitting.
Between five and 15 years after quitting, your risk of having a stroke has been reduced to the same level as non-smokers.
After ten years, lung cancer risk is cut in half and the risk of ulcers and other cancers also decreases.
Fifteen years after your last cigarette, your risk of heart disease and death are nearly the same as people who have never smoked a day in their lives.
