People say smoking one cigarette takes 11 minutes off your life (approximately). If you stop smoking early enough does this cancel this out or is the damage already done?
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Cancer is mostly a numbers game. And the time is mostly based on averaging out life expectancy vs number of cigarettes smoked. (I have not verified the accuracy of this number though) If you get lung cancer at a young age it’s more like every cigarette you smoked took hours off your life rather than minutes. But averaged out over everyone it comes down to that 11 minutes.
With that in mind there is still damage that can be undone. Quiting smoking will reduce your chances of cancer by about %40 after 5 years, which is similar to saying 40% of the damage can be canceled out. It’s just a little hard to phrase because we’re talking about risk percent, not actual physical body damage.
But man let me tell you, if you do quit the quality of life goes way up. You’ll feel like you’ve got twice the endurance in a few weeks.
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