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In reply to the discussion: Treated like a Queen FOR Smoking at Office Christmas Party [View all]Nye Bevan
(25,406 posts)Within 20 minutes: Your blood pressure and pulse rate drops
Within eight hours: Carbon monoxide and oxygen levels in your blood returns to normal
Within 24 hours: Your chance of heart attack decreases
Within 48 hours: Your ability to smell and taste is better
Between two weeks and three months: Your circulation and lung function improves and walking becomes easier
Within one to nine months: Cilia grow again in the lungs, fatigue, coughing, sinus congestion and shortness of breath decrease
After just a year: Your risk of heart attack is less than that of smoker
After five years: Your odds of developing lung, throat, mouth and esophagus cancer drops by almost half
Between five and 15 years: Your stroke risk is reduced to that of a non-smoker
After 10 years: Your lung cancer death rate is similar to that of non-smokers
After 15 years: You have the same risk of heart disease as a non-smoker