Quitting smoking quickly reduces mortality from cardiovascular disease, cancer and lung disease. The risk is reduced by more than 60 percent in the first ten years.
A recently published scientific study by American experts could serve as fodder for good New Year’s resolutions.
“It’s never too early to quit smoking. But it’s never too late. Today is the day to do it, regardless of age,” said Blake Thomson of Stanford University in California.
Great health benefits after a short time
Within the first decade of literally putting away the last cigarette, there were major health benefits: ex-smokers had a 64 percent lower death rate from cardiovascular disease than people who continued to smoke. At the same time, mortality from cancer (all malignant diseases) fell by 53 percent and mortality from respiratory diseases by 57 percent.
The curve continued to point downwards. Thirty years after the last cigarette, cardiovascular mortality is the same as that of never smokers. When it comes to cancer, they have only a seven percent higher mortality rate than non-smokers, and when it comes to mortality from respiratory disease, they have only a three percent higher risk.
According to Statistics Austria (2019), almost 21 percent of people over the age of 15 still smoke in Austria.
Source: Krone
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