Health Benefits of Stopping Smoking
Within 1 day of stopping smoking
The nicotine levels have dropped in your bloodstream, however it may take up to 3 days for the nicotine by products to leave your body.
The heart rate slows down and blood pressure goes down a little.
Efficiency of the lungs improves as carbon monoxide is excreted from the body.
Within 1 week of stopping smoking
You feel and look better and fresher. Your sense of smell and taste is returning.
The cilia, little structures within the lungs begin to recover.
These cilia are the lungs own cleaning mechanisms, so you may start to cough up phlegm as they begin to clean the lungs.
Within 1 month of stopping smoking
You are able to do more exercise more easily than before, as your lungs are working noticeable better for you.
Blood pressure has returned to normal.
Within 6 months
You have more energy, as your lung function is improving more and more.
Your immune system is getting stronger and stronger each day.
The blood flow to your limbs has improved and continues to improve.
After 1 year
The risk of sudden death from a heart attack has dropped to nearly that of being a non smoker.
After 5 years
Your risk of cancer of the mouth, throat and oesophagus is halved to that of a smoker’s.
After 10 years
The risk of you dying from lung cancer (unless it is already present) and any other illness caused from smoking, has dropped to half that of a person who smokes.
After 15 years
The risk of you getting coronary heart disease is nearly the same as that of a person who has never smoked.
