Is it too late to stop?

  It’s never too late to stop smoking.

It’s never too late to stop smoking.Stopping smoking at any age increases your life expectancy, provided you stop before you develop cancer or other serious disease. But even if damage has already been done, you can still benefit from stopping.

* Twenty minutes after your last cigarette, your blood pressure returns to normal.

* Carbon monoxide leaves the body 24 hours after the last cigarette and the lungs begin to clear out mucus and debris.

* By the time three months have passed, circulation and breathing should have improved noticeably.

* After five years, the risk of having a heart attack falls to about half that of a smoker.

* After ten years, the risk of lung cancer falls to about half that of a smoker

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