The benefits of quitting smoking

• Your blood pressure goes down, your pulse drops and your hands and feet get warmer.

• The carbon monoxide level in your blood drops to normal and the level of oxygen in your blood increases to normal.

• Your chance of having a heart attack begins to fall.

• Your lung capacity has already improved.

• Your senses of taste and smell improve. Your breath, hair and fingers are noticeably cleaner.

• Because your lung function and circulation are improving, it’s easier to walk. As the hairlike structures lining your airways recover, they remove more mucus from your respiratory passages, which you’ll cough up at first as your lungs and sinuses clear.

• You notice less coughing, congestion, fatigue and shortness of breath.

• Your risk of heart attack and stroke are back to normal.
 

• Your risk of lung cancer falls to half that of continuing smokers. Your risk of other associated cancers drops.