How Long After I Quit Smoking Are There Benefits?
20 Minutes After Quitting
Your heart rate drops.
12 hours After Quitting
Carbon monoxide level in your blood drops to normal.
2 Weeks to 3 Months After Quitting
Your heart attack risk begins to drop.
Your lung function begins to improve.
1 to 9 Months After Quitting
Your Coughing and shortness of breath decrease.
1 Year After Quitting
Your added risk of coronary heart disease is half that of a smoker’s.
5 Years After Quitting
Your stroke risk is reduced to that of a nonsmoker’s
10 Years After Quitting
Your lung cancer death rate is about half that of a smoker’s.
Your risk of cancers of the mouth, throat, esophagus, bladder, kidney, and pancreas decreases.
15 Years After Quitting
Your risk of coronary heart disease is back to that of a nonsmoker’s.
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5 Responses to “How Long After I Quit Smoking Are There Benefits?”
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October 30th, 2009 at 4:12 pm
immediately. you’ll have more money.
October 30th, 2009 at 5:24 pm
Life long…Kevy…life long…you can breathe easier and after just one short/long week you already start to feel healthier…..I won’t lie to you it is hell and you will crave it..I still do and I quit in November last yr…but I feel so much better and my endurance….if u know what I mean…
October 30th, 2009 at 7:26 pm
Within the first day you’ll feel energized! Within the next couple of days you will breathe much easier. Within a week you can start smelling things you couldn’t smell before. And down the road you start feeling more alert and healthier.
October 31st, 2009 at 12:45 am
it depends how long youbeen doing it one thing you will much better off.
October 31st, 2009 at 3:12 am
As soon as you smoked your last cigarette.