Stop smoking
Health benefits
Quitting smoking can dramatically improve your health:
- Lung health
- Bone health and healing
- Diabetes prevention
- Kidney failure prevention
- Memory loss prevention or delay
- Sexual function improvement
Did you know:
- Those with heart disease who quit smoking were 32% less likely to experience a nonfatal heart attack than those who continued smoking.1
- Pregnant women who smoked were almost three times more likely to have low birth weight and more than two times more likely to have fetal growth restriction.2,3
- Some estimates show that 16% of all cancers are caused by smoking.4
Sources
1. Go A, Mozaffarian D, Roger V et al. Heart Disease and Stroke Statistics - 2014 Update: A Report from the American Heart Association. Circulation. 2015. Available at: uic.pure.elsevier.com/en/publications/heart-disease-and-stroke-statistics-2014-update-a-report-from-the. Accessed September 3, 2017
2. Vardavas C, Chatzi L, Patelarou E et al. Smoking and smoking cessation during early pregnancy and its effect on adverse pregnancy outcomes and fetal growth. European Journal of Pediatrics. 2009;169(6):741-748. doi:10.1007/s00431-009-1107-9.
3. Salihu H, Wilson R. Epidemiology of prenatal smoking and perinatal outcomes. Early Human Development. 2007;83(11):713-720. doi:10.1016/j.earlhumdev.2007.08.002
4. Sasco A, Secretan M, Straif K. Tobacco smoking and cancer: a brief review of recent epidemiological evidence. Lung Cancer. 2004;45:S3-S9. doi:10.1016/j.lungcan.2004.07.998