SMOKERS EXPERIENCE A RANGE OF BENEFITS WHEN THEY QUIT SMOKING
When people give up smoking, they experience a range of short, medium-term health benefits: 1
- In a few days, their heart rate drops, their sense of smell and taste improves, and their blood levels of carbon monoxide and oxygen return to normal
- In a few weeks, their risk of sudden death from a heart attack is reduced, their lung function improves, and they are less short of breath
- In a few months, their symptoms of chronic bronchitis improve, and they are at reduced risk of ulcers 1
THE BENEFITS OF SMOKING CESSATION OCCUR THROUGHOUT THE BODY 2
QUITTING SMOKING IS DIFFICULT AND PEOPLE WHO WANT TO QUIT NEED YOUR HELP
- Over recent years, the number of smokers who have reported a positive intention to quit has fallen from 64% in 2015 to 57% in 20213
- Across the same period, the proportion of smokers who made an attempt to quit in a given year decreased from 53% to 46%3
- It is important that people who smoke keep trying to quit. It may take more than 30 unsuccessful attempts before they succeed in stopping smoking4 and so the existence of a wide range of available smoking cessation services across Ireland may help people to continue to try to quit
References
- NHS Inform. Benefits of stopping smoking. Available at https://www.nhsinform.scot/healthy-living/stopping-smoking/reasons-to-stop/
benefits-of-stopping-smoking/. Accessed November 2023. - Stop Smoking National Clinical Guideline No. 28, 2022. Available at: https://www.gov.ie/en/publication/4828b-stop-smoking/.
Accessed November 2023. - HSE Tobacco Free Ireland Programme. The state of tobacco control in Ireland 2022. Available at: https://www.hse.ie/eng/about/who/tobaccocontrol/
news/state-of-tobacco-control-report-2022.pdf. Accessed November 2023. - Chaiton M, Diemert L, Cohen JE, et al.
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IE-CH-1566 Date of Preparation April 2024