Benefits of quitting

If you are a smoker, quitting smoking is the best thing you can do to improve the length and quality of your life. People who stop smoking reduce their chances of developing heart disease, cancer, breathing problems, or infections. You will also have more money to spend on things for yourself and your family.

• In 2006, the average packet of 20 cigarettes costs you about $8.30
• Someone smoking a pack a day would spend over $3000 a year on cigarettes

Within a couple of days you will have saved $16.60

Within a month you will have saved $252

Within three months you will have saved $757

At six months you will have saved $1515

A year after you have quit, you will have saved $3030

Adapted from Quit Victoria Fact sheet: Quit and Save a Packet.

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It is beneficial to stop smoking at any age. The earlier smoking is stopped, the greater the health gain.

• Within two hours of quitting smoking the nicotine is out of your system
• Within 24 hours the carbon monoxide is out of your system and your lungs work more effectively
• After 12 months, your risk of sudden death from heart attack is almost half that of smokers