• 10 years
Your risk of death from lung cancer has declined by almost half if you were an average smoker (one pack per day). Your risk of cancer of the mouth, throat and esophagus has now decreased.
  • 15 years
Your risk of coronary heart disease is now that of a person who has never smoked.

... so long as you stop smoking in time




Sources for the above stop smoking recovery data include the 1990 U.S. Surgeon General's Report on the "Health Benefits of Smoking Cessation, " U.S. National Institute of Health, Medline Plus