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The Benefits for health when quitting smoking are immediate and substantial . The circulation of the person begins to improve and the level of carbon monoxide in the blood drops.


This colorless, odorless gas is found in cigarette smoke and reduces the ability of blood to carry oxygen. The pulse and blood pressure of the person, those who are abnormally elevated while smoking, begin to return to normal.


A few days after quitting, the senses of taste and smell of the person return and breathing becomes easier and easier.

 

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There are also many benefits in quitting smoking for people who are sick or who have already developed cancer. When you no longer smoke, you reduce the risk of developing infections, such as pneumonia, which often causes death in patients with other diseases.


In this sense, Dr. Francisco Vázquez Nava, a researcher at the Faculty of Medicine at the Autonomous University of Tamaulipas, explains that there are much more serious diseases derived from smoking and that people who quit smoking reduce the risk of developing and dying from cancer. of lung.


Long-term


People who quit smoking live longer than those who continue to smoke. After 10 or 15 years of quitting, the risk of premature death in a person who smoked approaches that of a person who has never smoked.

About 10 years after quitting, the risk of an ex-smoker to die of lung cancer is 30 to 50% lower than the risk of those who continue to do so.

 

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Women who stop smoking before they get pregnant or in the first three months of pregnancy can prevent the baby's low birth weight and reduce other problems related to pregnancy.


Quitting smoking decreases the risk of other related diseases, including chronic heart and lung diseases. While the possibility of developing cancer, depend on the number of years in which you smoked; cigarettes consumed per day; age at which they started smoking and the presence or absence of any disease when tobacco is quit.
 


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