The benefits of stopping smoking
Stopping smoking will be immediately beneficial. In eight hours, your blood levels of poisonous carbon monoxide returns to normal. In a day, your risk of heart attack begins to decrease. During your first year without smoking, your circulation improves, your sense of taste and smell will be more acute, you will have less lung infections and sinus congestion, and cough less. After one year, your risk of heart disease halved.
The benefits thus add up each year; after four years, your risk of a heart attack is the same as that of someone who never smoked. After ten years, your risk of lung cancer will be almost the same as that of a nonsmoker, while that of developing cancer of the mouth, throat, esophagus , bladder and kidney decreases substantially. To help you quit for good, try the following strategies