Quitting smoking doesn’t just do good things for your lungs – it does good things for your whole body, and the benefits begin right away. When you quit smoking, you’ll help your heart by:
Lowering your heart rate
Lowering your blood pressure
Lowering your risk for atherosclerosis and blood clots
Your risk of getting heart disease becomes much lower when you quit smoking. In fact, a year after you quit, your risk of heart disease decreases by 50 percent.