![]() Within 15 years, your risk of heart disease is that of a non-smoker. Within 10 years, your lung cancer death rate is about half that of a smoker. Within 5–15 years, your stroke risk is reduced to that of a non-smoker. Within 1–9 months, coughing and shortness of breath decrease. Within 2–12 weeks, your circulation improves and lung function increases. Within 12 hours, the carbon monoxide level in your blood drops to normal. After just 20 minutes of quitting smoking, your heart rate drops. ![]() The benefits of quitting tobacco are almost immediate. Quitting can be challenging, especially with the added social and economic stress that have come as a result of the pandemic, but there are a lot of reasons to quit. When evidence was released this year that smokers were more likely to develop severe disease with COVID-19 compared to non-smokers, it triggered millions of smokers to want to quit tobacco. Tobacco causes 8 million deaths every year. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Office on Smoking and Health, 1989. Reducing the Health Consequences of Smoking: 25 Years of Progress. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Office of the Surgeon General, 2001. Women and Smoking: A Report of the Surgeon General. JAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association 2004 291(10):1238–45. Actual Causes of Death in the United States. Mokdad AH, Marks JS, Stroup DF, Gerberding JL.Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report 2013:62(08) 155. QuickStats: Number of Deaths from 10 Leading Causes-National Vital Statistics System, United States, 2010. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Office on Smoking and Health, 2010. How Tobacco Smoke Causes Disease: What It Means to You. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Office on Smoking and Health, 2014. The Health Consequences of Smoking-50 Years of Progress: A Report of the Surgeon General. Smoking is a cause of rheumatoid arthritis.Smoking causes general adverse effects on the body, including inflammation and decreased immune function.The risk of developing diabetes is 30–40% higher for active smokers than nonsmokers. Smoking is a cause of type 2 diabetes mellitus and can make it harder to control.AMD is damage to a small spot near the center of the retina, the part of the eye needed for central vision. ![]() It can also cause age-related macular degeneration (AMD). Smoking can increase your risk for cataracts (clouding of the eye’s lens that makes it hard for you to see).Smoking affects the health of your teeth and gums and can cause tooth loss.They are also at greater risk for broken bones. Women past childbearing years who smoke have weaker bones than women who never smoked.Smoking can also affect men’s sperm, which can reduce fertility and also increase risks for birth defects and miscarriage.Sudden infant death syndrome (known as SIDS or crib death).Stillbirth (death of the baby before birth).It can also affect her baby’s health before and after birth. Smoking can make it harder for a woman to become pregnant.Smoking harms nearly every organ of the body and affects a person’s overall health.
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