Within 20 minutes: Your blood pressure, heart rate and the temperature of your hands and feet normalize;

Within 8 hours: Oxygen and carbon dioxide levels in your blood normalize;

In 1 day: Your likelihood of having a heart attack decreases;

In 2 days: Your sense of smell and taste improves, nerve endings start to regrow;

2 weeks - 3 months: Your circulation becomes better and breathing improves becoming easier to walk;

1 - 9 months: Coughing, sinus congestion, shortness of breath and fatigue decrease and you have more energy;

1 year: Happy Birthday! Your excess risk of heart disease is now less than half what it was a year ago.

5 years: Your risk of cancer of the lung, mouth, throat and esophagus is half that of a pack-a-day smoker;

10 years: Your risk of dying of lung cancer is similar to non-smokers: precancerous cells have been replaced;

And at 15 years: You are at no more risk of heart disease then if you had never smoked!

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