Body Starts To Heal Immediately When You Quit

Written by Stuart Stevens | Wednesday, 14 May 2008

A huge study into the effects of smoking in women has recently been released and shows that the health benefits of quitting smoking are immediate and significant. Many people believe that they won’t experience health benefits from quitting smoking immediately and that it takes years for your help to improve but this new study bunks that myth.

Around 100,000 females were looked at between the years 1980 and 2004 and it was seen that a 50 percent reduction of dying from heart disease as well as a huge reduction in the likelihood of dying from lung cancer was experienced within the first five years. It was seen that you reduced your risk of dying by thirteen percent overall in the first five years of quitting smoking.

Over the long term the health benefits improved and the researchers said that by the time twenty years were up the risk of dying from heart disease went down to a level which was similar to that of women who had never smoked in the first place.

Professor Kenfield from the Harvard School of Public Health explained that the body can start to heal itself when cancer agents and other harmful chemicals are removed from the body and that the biggest benefits to the body occur in the first five years of staying smoke free.  The other statistic which should come as a bit of a shock to smokers is that almost 2/3 of smokers die from an illness directly linked to their smoking.

In America smoking and tobacco use are statistically the most likely preventable causes of death in men and women. Smokers often try to ignore the statistics because they don’t want to face the reality of their smoking habit and because they are heavily addicted however they should face up the facts and realise that smoking is more than likely going to kill send them to an early grave.

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