In him World No Tobacco Day There is nothing better than being reminded of the benefits that quitting smoking brings to our health.
We are talking about a habit that is linked to more than 50,000 deaths each year in Spain alone, and that despite these data they are not reduced as would be desirable.
In any case, and in case you can summon the intelligence of more than one to help you make up your mind, here they are consequences, scientifically provenabout what we can achieve for our health through efforts that will certainly be important but temporary: stop smoking
Once we get over the habit of smoking, we realize that we don’t need to light a cigarette to feel better, to reduce anxiety, or to calm down…
Not counting the savings it will mean to our economy and our family’s economy.
So here we collect a list of benefits produced by our experts and collected, many of them, on the website of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
And first of all, the enormous speed with which we can begin to observe an improvement in our state of health.
Improve our health from the first minutes
We don’t have to wait for our body to start noticing the benefits of not smoking. And here’s a general list of what we’ve acquired over time:
First minutes: Heart rate is reduced
24 hours: The level of nicotine in the blood drops to zero
The level of carbon monoxide in the blood is reduced to the level of a non-smoker
From 1 to 12 months: Reduces cough and shortness of breath
From 1 to 2 years: The risk of a heart attack drops sharply
From 3 to 6 years: Added CHD risk cut in half
From 5 to 10 years: The added risk of mouth, throat and larynx cancer is halved
It reduces the risk of stroke
After 10 years: The added risk of lung cancer was halved
After 10 to 15 years: reduces the risk of bladder, esophagus and kidney cancer
More than 15 years later: The risk of coronary heart disease is reduced almost to the risk of a person who does not smoke
After 20 years: The risk of mouth, throat and larynx cancer is reduced almost to the risk of a non-smoker
The risk of pancreatic cancer is reduced to almost that of a non-smoker.
The added risk of cervical cancer is reduced by about half.
General benefits of quitting smoking
The most important thing to know is that the benefits of quitting are true, no matter how old you are or how long you’ve been smoking.
improves the condition overall health and quality of life.
It reduces the risk of premature death and can extend life expectancy by up to 10 years.
It reduces the risk of of many adverse health effects, including:
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Poor reproductive health outcomes
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Cardiovascular diseases
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Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)
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Cancer.
Benefits for people who already have a diagnosis of ischemic heart disease or epoch.
Good for health pregnant women, fetus and child.
It reduces the financial burden on smokers, healthcare systems and society.
While the health benefits are greatest the earlier in life you quit smoking, Quitting smoking has benefits at any age. Even for people who have smoked for many years or heavily.
Quitting smoking is the best way to protect your family, co-workers, friends and others from the health risks associated with inhaling second-hand smoke.
Heart benefits of quitting smoking
The relationship between smoking cessation and a reduction in the risk of cardiovascular disease is one of the most important measures and one of those with the most scientific evidence.
Among them, the following can be highlighted:
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Reduce markers inflammation and hypercoagulability.
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kindness rapid increase in HDL-C cholesterol levels.
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Reduce cases atherosclerosis subclinical and slows its progression over time.
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It reduces the risk of ischemic heart disease. With an intense decline in the first two years after smoking cessation and more slowly in the long term.
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It reduces the risk of disease and death from stroke and this risk may approach that of people who have never smoked.
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Reduce presentation risk and abdominal aortic aneurysmand this risk continues to decline over time without smoking.
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You can reduce the risk of having atrial fibrillation, sudden cardiac death, heart failure, venous thromboembolism and peripheral artery disease.
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Stop smoking it can also be helpful for people who already have a diagnosis of CHDbecause in these cases:
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It reduces the risk of premature death.
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It reduces the risk of dying from heart disease.
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It reduces the risk of a first heart attack or another heart attack.
Respiratory health benefits of smoking cessation
It only takes a while to smoke or live with a smoker to realize that tobacco clearly affects people’s respiratory health in a very unpleasant way.
Repeated coughing, choking, phlegm, wheezing and starting again with another cough…that we have surely suffered or seen are more than evident.
And these are the improvements that smoking cessation brings with regard to respiratory diseases.
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Reduce presentation risk epoch.
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In people with COPD, it reduces the progression of the disease and reduces loss of lung function overtime.
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Reduces symptoms respiratory (coughing, production of sputum, wheezing).
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Reduces infection respiratory (e.g. bronchitis, pneumonia).
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To be able to improve lung functionreduce symptoms and improve treatment outcomes in people with asthma.
Cancer benefits of quitting smoking
Quitting smoking is one of the most important steps people who smoke can take to reduce their risk of cancer.
So much so that experts don’t hesitate to say that quitting smoking reduces your risk of at least 12 different types of cancer, including the following:
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Acute myeloid leukemia (AML)
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Bladder
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Pulmonary
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cervix
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colon and rectum
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esophagus
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kidney
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liver
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Mouth and throat (oral cavity and pharynx)
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pancreas
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From the stomach
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from the larynx
In addition, specialists have observed countless times that in cancer survivors, quitting smoking can improve their prognosis and reduce the risk of premature death.
Reproductive health benefits of quitting
Quitting smoking is one of the most important steps women who smoke can take to have a healthy pregnancy and give birth to a healthy baby.
The best time for women stop smoking before trying to get pregnant.
And if they can’t get it done sooner, getting it done anytime during pregnancy is beneficial for both mother and baby.
If you manage to do it before or at the beginning of pregnancy, reduce the risk of having a small child for gestational age.
If they do this during pregnancy, they can reduce the risk of the baby being born underweight.
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