Smoking
The health benefits of stopping smoking become evident within a very short time period.
- As soon as you stop smoking, your body will begin to rid itself of tobacco toxins.
- Your clothes, hair and breath will smell fresher.
- After just 20 minutes, your circulation will improve.
- Within eight hours nicotine levels in the blood will have halved.
- Within a few weeks your sense of taste and smell will improve.
- Your overall general health will improve; you will feel fitter and breathing problems will gradually disappear.
- Within a year or two of not smoking your risk of having a heart attack is reduced by half that it would have been had you continued.
- After three years of not smoking your risk of having a heart attack is similar to that of a life-long non-smoker.
- After 10 years of not smoking the risk of getting lung cancer is halved. The longer you stop the lower the risk.
- You will save money.
- Friends and family will also benefit.
- The sooner you decide to quit the better but remember: it is never too late to quit smoking.
