Rewards of Quitting Smoking
Kicking the tobacco habit and Quitting Smoking, offers some benefits that you’ll notice right away and some that will develop over time.
The rewards of Quitting Smoking improve most peoples’ day-to-day lives a great deal:
- Breath smells fresher
- Stained teeth get whiter
- Bad smell in clothes and hair vanish
- Yellow fingers and fingernails disappear
- Taste improves considerably
- Sense of smell returns to normal
- Everyday activities are much easier
Furthermore, smoking cessatioon improves health status and enhances quality of life. Thus, it reduces the risk of premature death and can add as much as 10 years to life expectancy.
Also, quitting smoking reduces the risk for many adverse health effects, including poor reproductive health outcomes, cardiovascular diseases, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), and cancer.
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