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The Tobacco Reference Guide |
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| | Chapter 22 Smoking and tobacco cessation |
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| | Smoking and tobacco cessation: Health benefits of quitting |
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| | Smoking cessation even after many years of the habit has immediate positive health |
| | benefits. The risk of coronary heart disease is reduced 10 to 15 years following |
| | cessation to that of lifelong nonsmokers. A lifelong smoker who quits at age 50 |
| | reduces by 50% his or her chances of dying before age 65. One year after quitting, |
| | half of the excess heart disease risk is gone. |
| | The Health Benefits of Smoking Cessation, 1990 Surgeon General Report |
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| | Male smokers who quit between ages 35 to 39 add an average of 5 years to their |
| | lives; female quitters in this age group add 3 years. Even lifelong smokers (male and |
| | female) who quit at age 65 to 70 increase their life expectancy by one year. |
| | 1990 Surgeon General report |
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| | Ten years after quitting, the death rate of former smokers declines to about the same |
| | as those who never smoked. |
| | 1990 Surgeon General report |
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| | Smoking cessation would increase overall life expectancy by 2.4 to 4.4 years among |
| | men, and from 2.6 to 3.7 years among women. |
| | Archives of Internal Medicine, August 8, 1994, p. 1697 |
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| | "On stopping smoking, former smokers removed one-third of the excess risk of total |
| | coronary heart disease incidence within 2 years of cessation. The risk among former |
| | smokers declines to the level of never-smokers during the interval of 10 to 14 years |
| | following cessation. The risk of total stroke incidence among former smokers |
| | approaches the level of never-smoker during the interval of 2 to 4 years following |
| | cessation." |
| | Changes in Cigarette-Related Disease Risks, p. 562 |
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