About Stop Smoking

TO KNOW MORE

20 min

• Blood pressure and pulse return to normal.
8 hrs

• Oxygen levels return to normal.
• Nicotine and carbon monoxide levels in blood reduce by half.
12 hrs

• Carbon monoxide levels in blood drop to normal.

24 hrs

• Carbon monoxide will be eliminated from the body.
• Lungs start to clear out mucous and other smoking debris.
48 hrs

• There is no nicotine left in the body.
• Ability to taste and smell is greatly improved.
72 hrs

• Breathing becomes easier.
• Bronchial tubes begin to relax and energy levels increase.

3 – 9 months

• Coughs, wheezing and breathing problems improve as lung functions are increased by up to 10%.
12 months

• Excess risk of coronary heart disease is reduced by about half and declines gradually hereafter.
5 yrs.

• Risk of heart attack falls to about half that of a smoker.
• Risk of stroke returns to the level of people who have never smoked (5 – 15 years).
10 yrs.

• Risk of Lung Cancer falls to about half that of a smoker.
15 yrs.

• Risk of lung cancer is reduced to close to that observed in non-smokers.
• Risk of coronary heart disease falls to the same as someone who has never smoked.
• If you have quit smoking before age 50 you have halved the risk of dying in the next 15 years compared with continuing smokers.