Why should I stop?

There are many good reasons, but you need to find the ones that will motivate you.

Good for your health

* Within 20 minutes after finishing a cigarette, your blood pressure and pulse rate return to pre-cigarette level.
* After 8 hours, the oxygen levels in your blood will return to normal.
* Within a day, your risk of having a heart attack decreases.
* After 3 months, your circulation will improve and your lung function will increase.
* After one year, your risk of having a heart attack will be about half of what it would have been if you had continued to smoke.
* After 5 years, your risk of stroke will be greatly reduced.
* After 15 years, your risk of coronary heart disease will be the same as a non-smoker's.

Taken from the Health Canada Network
http://www.canadian-health-network....e&c=CHNResource