48 hours after quitting smoking, carbon monoxide will be eliminated from the body. Lungs start to clear out mucus and other smoking debris.
Stopping smoking reduces the chances of the children in your house suffering from bronchitis, pneumonia, asthma attacks, meningitis and ear infections.
The average smoker has 13 cigarettes a day, which is 364 cigarettes a month. This costs £141 a month, which is £1,696 a year.
If you smoke 1-4 cigarettes a day, you are 5 times more likely to die from lung cancer than a non-smoker.
Lung cancer risk increases with smoking duration and amount; duration has the most effect: smoking one pack of cigarettes a day for 40 years is more hazardous than smoking two packs a day for 20 years.
As soon as you stop smoking, your risk of lung cancer starts to go down. 10 years after you’ve stopped smoking, your lung cancer risk is half that of someone who has continued to smoke.
Smoking cigarettes is the single biggest risk factor for lung cancer. 90% of lung cancers are caused by smoking.
Work as a family to stop smoking as it affects all of you – not just health but behaviours, attitudes and finances.
If you and your partner smoke 10 cigarettes a day, it will cost you £2,400 a year. Over 20 years, you can use that £48,000 paying off bills, your credit card or mortgage.
Non-smokers have more disposable income than smokers. That means more holidays, more days out with the family and greater choice in spending on what you want to spend on.