Stop Smoking Health Benefits Test - Quit Smoking the easy way | Mind Matters

How will your body adjust?

Take a look at this

20 minutes after your last cigarette

Your heart rate will have dropped. (1)

Nicotine is as vaso-constrictor - it constricts arteries.  The heart has to work harder to overcome the constriction.

12 hours after you have stopped smoking

The carbon monoxide level in your blood will have dropped to normal.(2)

2 -12 weeks after stopping smoking

Your circulation improves and your lung function increases.(3)

1 - 9 months as a non smoker

Coughing and shortness of breath decrease;

cilia (tiny hair like structures that move mucus out of the lungs) resume normal function, increasing the ability to clean the lungs and reduce the risk of infection.(4)

1 year after stopping smoking

Excess risk of coronary heart disease is half that of a smoker's.(5)

5-15 years after stopping smoking

Your risk of having a stroke is the same as a nonsmoker.(6)

10 years as a non smoker

The lung cancer death rate is about half that of a continuing smoker's.

The risk of cancer of the mouth, throat, esophagus, bladder, cervix, and pancreas decrease.(7)

15 years after stopping smoking

The risk of coronary heart disease is that of a nonsmoker's.(8)

And the obvious

• Breathing is easier
• Smell and taste improve
• No more smokers cough
• Coughs and colds don't hang around as long
• Physical exercise is easier (and you are better at it)