The health benefits of quitting smoking.
Quitting smoking can be the best thing you will ever do for your health.
Check out some of the changes that take place in the body after you choose to quit smoking.
- 20 minutes: Your heart rate is back down to its normal resting rate.
- 8 hours: Oxygen saturation is recovering and carbon monoxide in your blood will have been reduced by half.
- 2 days: All carbon monoxide is gone. Your lungs begin clearing out mucus. Your sense of taste and smell will begin to return.
- 3 days: Breathing may begin to feel easier.
- 2 to 12 weeks: Blood circulation is improved, placing less stress on the heart.
- 3 to 9 months: Lung function has improved by up to 10%, meaning less coughing, wheezing and breathing problems.
- 1 Year: Your risk of heart attack is half that of a smoker.
- 10 Years: Your risk of death from lung cancer is half that of a smoker.