What Happens When You Quit Smoking?
6. Within 9 months, you will experience significantly less fatigue, boredom, weakness, frustration and headache. You will have far less respiratory problems as by now your lungs will have attained significantly improved functionality. The risks of lung infections will also decrease drastically.
7. In a year’s time, your risks of heart attack and other heart diseases will reduce up to 50% of what it was when you were a smoker.
8. After five years, you will no longer be under the threat of having a stroke – it will now be same as that of a non-smoker.
9. By 10 years, risks of cancerous cells developing in several parts of your body will reduce enormously – including your mouth, throat, esophagus, gall bladder, kidney and pancreas. The risk of lung cancer becomes similar to that of a non-smoker.
10. In 15 years, your physiology will be similar to a person who has never smoked before. All threats to your health, whether it is cancer or any heart related disease, will be wiped off and you have a higher chance of dying as someone who has never touched a cigarette.
But apart from the various health benefits that you get when you quit smoking, you also do a lot of good to those who live with you or stay in close vicinity – your family members and children, for instance. When you smoke in their presence, they also suffer the same health risks as you do, so when you stop smoking, you also stop harming them – especially little children.
