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Rewards of Quitting Tobacco
- Immediately your breath, clothes and hair smell better.
- Embarrassment you may feel from smoking instantly lifts.
- Premature wrinkling of the skin and the staining of your teeth cease right away.
- Within 1 day, your chances of having and dying from a heart attack go down.
- After 2 days, your food begins to taste better and your sense of smell returns to normal.
- Ordinary activities no longer leave you out of breath, within 2 — 12 weeks.
- Within 1 — 9 months, you will feel more energized.
- Your risk of heart disease is half that of a smoker within 1 year of quitting.
- After 5 years, you have a significantly reduced risk of getting lung cancer and your chance of having a stroke is the same as that of a nonsmoker.
- Within 10 years, if you are a pack‐a‐day smoker, you will save about $29,000.