What Happens When you Stop Using Tobacco

What Happens To Your Body When You Quit Smoking?

Within 20 minutes

• Blood pressure drops to normal
• Pulse rate returns to normal
• Peripheral circulation increases, returning body temperature of hands and feet to normal

Within eight hours

• Blood levels of carbon monoxide and oxygen return to normal

Within 24 hours

• Chances of heart attack decrease

Within 48 hours

• Nerve endings start to re-grow
• Ability to taste and smell are enhanced

After 72 hours

• Lung capacity begins to increase
• Previously paralyzed cilia hairs resume full functioning

Within three to five years

• Risk of heart attack drops to that similar of a non-smoker

Within 10 years

• Risk of dying of lung cancer drops to that of a non-smoker

(Source: American Cancer Society)