Within 20 minutes: Your blood pressure, heart rate and the temperature of your hands
and feet start to normalize.
Within 8 hours: Oxygen and carbon dioxide levels in your blood normalize.
In 1
day: Your likelihood of having a heart attack decreases.
In 2 days: Your sense of smell and taste improves, nerve endings
start to re-grow.
2 weeks - 3 months: Your circulation becomes better and breathing improves becoming easier to walk.
1 - 9 months: Coughing, sinus congestion, shortness of breath and fatigue decrease and you have more energy.
1
year: Happy Birthday! Your excess risk of heart disease is now less than half what it was a year ago.
5 years:
Your risk of cancer of the lung, mouth, throat and esophagus is half that of a pack-a-day smoker.
10 years: Your risk
of dying of lung cancer is similar to non-smokers: precancerous cells have been replaced.
15 years: You are at
no more risk of heart disease than if you had never smoked.
