The following health benefits and physiological changes start to happen to your body as soon as you break the smoking habit, as listed by the American Cancer Society:
- After 20 minutes: Blood pressure, body temperature, and pulse rate drop to normal
- After 8 hours: Smoker's breath disappears, carbon monoxide level in blood drops, oxygen level rises to normal
- After 24 hours: Chance of heart attack decreases
- After 3 days: Breathing is easier
- After 2-3 months: Circulation improves, walking becomes easier, lung capacity increases by up to 30 percent
- After 1-9 months: Sinus congestion and shortness of breath decrease, cilia that sweep debris from your lungs grow back, energy increases
- After 5 years: Lung cancer death rate for pack-a-day smoker decreases by almost half, risk of stroke reduces, risk of mouth, throat, and esophageal cancer reduce by half
- After 10 years: Lung cancer death rate becomes similar to that of a person who has never smoked, pre-cancerous cells replaced
- After 15 years: Risk of coronary heart disease is the same as that of a person who has never smoked
If you smoke, or someone you know and love smokes, call today so that these benefits can begin right away!
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