How Does not smoking affect your health?

How Does not smoking affect your health?

Improved circulation, lower blood pressure and heart rate, and better oxygen levels and lung function all reduce your risk of a heart attack. 1 to 9 months after quitting, you’ll feel less short of breath and cough less. Coughing, shortness of breath, and sinus congestion will decrease.

Does smoking cause health problems?

Smoking causes cancer, heart disease, stroke, lung diseases, diabetes, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), which includes emphysema and chronic bronchitis. Smoking also increases risk for tuberculosis, certain eye diseases, and problems of the immune system, including rheumatoid arthritis.

How does smoking affect the health of people around you?

Smoking not only impacts your cardiovascular health, but also the health of those around you who don’t smoke. Exposure to secondhand smoke carries the same risk to a nonsmoker as someone who does smoke. Risks include stroke, heart attack, and heart disease. The more obvious signs of smoking involve skin changes.

What kind of diseases can be caused by smoking?

Did you know? Tobacco use is the one risk factor shared by 4 of the main categories of non-communicable disease. These include cardiovascular disease, cancer, chronic lung disease and diabetes. Smoking causes most lung cancers and can cause cancer almost anywhere on the body.

Why are smokers more likely to develop heart disease?

Smokers are more likely than nonsmokers to develop heart disease, stroke, and lung cancer.1 Smoking causes diminished overall health, increased absenteeism from work, and increased health care utilization and cost. 1 Smokers are at greater risk for diseases that affect the heart and blood vessels (cardiovascular disease). 1,2

Why is smoking an issue for non-smokers?

Article 8 of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, recognizes that exposure to tobacco smoke causes death, disease and disability, and asks countries to adopt and implement legislation that provides protection from second-hand smoke.