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The Campaign

No Smoking Day is the UK’s foremost annual health awareness campaign in the UK, helping over 1.5 million smokers quit for good over its 25 year history

With No Smoking Day, there’s no pressure.  When smokers are ready to stop, we’re here and ready to help.

With No Smoking Day is built on our commitment to building partnerships with all those who share our vision.  We bring together like-minded individuals and organisations from across the UK to share skills and focus attention on smoking cessation for one day.

The Day’s main messages:

• No Smoking Day is a good opportunity to stop
• Smokers can get help when they want to stop
• There are health and other benefits to stopping smoking

What the Day does:

• Spurs smokers into action - millions took part in No Smoking Day 2007
• Appeals to smokers of all types - whatever their age, sex or social class
• Publicises and explains the help that smokers can get when they want

Health benefits

Smoking is the UK’s number one cause of avoidable premature death, linked to a range of serious and often fatal conditions.

Here’s the good news: the health benefits begins almost as soon as you quit After...

20 minutes      Blood pressure and pulse return to normal.

8 hours            Nicotine and carbon monoxide levels in the blood are halved,

                         oxygen levels in the blood return to normal.

24 hours          Carbon monoxide is eliminated from the body and the lungs start to

                         clear out the build up of tar.

48 hours          There is no nicotine left in the body.

                         Taste and smell are greatly improved.

72 hours          Breathing becomes easier, bronchial tubes begin to relax,

                         energy levels increase.

2 - 12 weeks   Circulation improves, making walking and running a lot easier.

3 - 9 months   Coughs, wheezing and breathing problems improve as the lungs

                         have room to up to 10 per cent more oxygen.

• The risk of developing lung cancer, other cancers, heart attack, stroke and chronic lung disease is reduced - the sooner you stop smoking, the sooner your risk starts going down.
• Stopping smoking at any age increases your life expectancy, provided that you stop before the onset of serious disease.  Even if you have developed a disease, you can benefit from stopping as your body will be under less strain.
• A smoker who has suffered from a heart attack can halve the risk of a second heart attack by stopping smoking..
• Ten years after quitting smoking an ex-smoker’s risk of lung cancer is reduced by 30 to 50 per cent compared with that of a continuing smoker.
• Smokers who stop before the age of 35 have a life expectancy not significantly different from that of a non-smoker.
• Smokers who give up smoking between 65 and 74 years of age have a better life expectancy beyond 75 than those who continue to smoke.

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