14. What are the health benefits of stopping smoking?

As soon as you stop smoking, the body starts the healing process right away and helps in regaining the vitality of non-smokers.

After you stop smoking, you will always have more energy because every cell in your body will be healthier, and there will be more oxygen in your body.

What happens within twenty minutes?

Benefits

    • Your blood pressure is normal, as any other non-smoker
    • Your pulse rate starts to return to normal
    • Hands and feet body temperature return to normal

What happens within eight hours?

Benefits

    • The level of Carbon Monoxide level in the blood lowers down to normal
    • The level of body oxygen spikes and comes to normal
    • The specific smoker’s breath is gone

What happens within twenty-four hours?

Benefits

    • The chances of heart attack have already decreased

What happens within forty-eight hours?

Benefits

    • Your nerve endings are now starting to regrow
    • The ability to smell and taste is now enhanced

What happens within seventy-two hours?

Benefits

    • Relaxation of the bronchial tubes makes breathing easier
    • The lung capacity increases, which eases physical activity

What happens within two weeks to three months?

Benefits

    • Improvement of circulation
    • It’s now easier to walk around
    • Lung functioning is now better by 30 percent

What happens within one to nine months?

Benefits

    • There is a decrease in coughing, sinus congestion, fatigue, and shortness of breath
    • Better body energy levels
    • Regrowth of cilia, which increases the ability to handle mucus and helps in cleaning lungs and reduces infection

What happens within one year?

Benefits

    • Coronary heart disease risk is half that of someone who smokes

What happens within two years?

Benefits

    • No more heart attack risk; it’s back to normal

What happens within five years?

Benefits

    • Lung cancer death rate has been reduced to half
    • Stroke risk lowered
    • The risk of mouth, throat, and oesophageal cancer is reduced to half of that of smokers

What happens within ten years?

Benefits

    • Same death rate as that of non-smokers
    • The replacement of pre-cancerous cells

What happens within fifteen years?

Benefits

    • Coronary heart disease risk is the same as that of someone who does not smoke