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Every Day, Hundreds of Thousands of Hoosiers Think About how to Stop Smoking.
Think about it:
20 minutes after quitting, your blood pressure drops.
Carbon monoxide levels in your blood drop to normal eight hours after you quit smoking.
Your chances of a heart attack decrease just twenty-four hours after quitting.
Within three months of quitting, your lung function can increase by thirty percent.
Coughing, sinus congestion, fatigue and shortness of breath decrease in one to nine months after quitting.
Ex-smokers have fewer health complaints, better self-reported health status and reduced rates of bronchitis and pneumonia.
After 15 years off cigarettes, the risk of death for ex-smokers returns to nearly the level of persons who never smoked in the first place.
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