During the first few years after you quit smoking,

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Quitting smoking can significantly decrease your chance of having a heart attack. Within a year of quitting smoking, your risk of heart disease decreases by half compared to a smoker. After 15 years of not smoking, your risk of heart disease is nearly the same as someone who has never smoked. However, the toxins that remain in your body from smoking can still affect an unborn child, and the lungs do not fully recover from the damage caused by emphysema. Being more likely to develop a lung tumor than a smoker who has not quit smoking is also not true.

During the First Few Years After You Quit Smoking