So if smoking a cigarette takes 11 minutes off your life, and you quit, youve still lost all that time right? -
Just wondering if there are any studies about this, and if no, what kind of formula would be used to determine the benefits of quitting smoking, after smoking for say 10 years, and what effect that would have on how long you continue to live. Interesting?
hi mike..
Therese a bunch of figures out there..im sure they have some medical studies.. that ten year figure alluded too by another is the most common one i have heard..
in the online support community folks use -quit meters- these enumerate the money saved cigarettes not smoked, and there is a place life saved.. from what i have been told, that life saved is figured 10 Min-s per cigarette..
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That-s just an average, and it assumes you keep smoking. The reality is somewhat more complicated, forex, if you stop, your life expectancy starts to go back to what it had been before you smoked and with every year it gets closer. So you do get some of those minutes back.
Yeah. It doent matter how long you smoke, or If you quit. Everytime you smoke, The cigarette Releases A certain amount of -- bad oxygen -- or whatever you want to call it. I would say if you smoked about 10 years and quit.... youve lost about maybe a year of life. It deoends how many times a day you would smoke.
The risk factors of dying of smoking related diseases will go down significantly after 10 years. It doesn-t take the villi in the lungs too long to recover after quitting and the lungs heal themselves.
Good question. I know that your lungs start healing just a soon as you quit so I would guess that you would get at lease some of those minutes back.