Benefits of Stopping Smoking

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What are the health benefits of stopping smoking?

The risk of getting cancer and other diseases reduces after you stop smoking, including:

• The risk of cancers of the mouth, throat and oesphagus are halved after you have quit for five years.
• The risk of cancer of the lung is halved after you have quit for ten years.
• The risk of heart disease is halved after you have quite for one year, and after fifteen years the risk is almost as low as if you had never smoked.
• The risk of a low birth weight baby is removed if you quit before you fall pregnant or during the first three months of pregnancy.
• Lung function increases by up to 10% between three and nine months after quitting, improving your "smoker's cough" and wheeziness.

For further information, visit ASH (Action on Smoking and Health)