"True before forty" … the right time to quit smoking

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Doctors are advised to quit smoking before they reach the age of 40: 45 because the heart and blood vessels will not return to normal until after 15 years of age to quit smoking.

Meredith Duncan of Vanderbilt University told a meeting of the American Heart Association in Dallas that she and her team conducted a long-term study on the effects of cigarettes and other nicotine on the health and early death of former smokers. At the start of the study, only 27 years, the participants did not suffer from chronic heart disease or blood vessels, tuberculosis and other diseases affecting the lungs and as a whole were in good physical and mental fitness, according to the site Russia Today.

16 years after the start of the study, it became clear that young people and good health are not a guarantee against the consequences of smoking. For example, most heart attacks and strokes of about 70% were among the old and current smokers who smoke 20 cigarettes each day for 20 years.

It has also been shown that the higher the number of cigarettes smoked by the person, the increased problems of the functioning of the lungs and of the heart and blood vessels, and that the abandonment of smoking strongly affects the person's initial health condition, but in time the rate of return of the indicators to normal.

Doctors point out that even after 16 years, all the effects of negative smoking have not disappeared, indicating that the smoker who wishes to leave the bad habit to take this step as soon as possible.

Five years after smoking cessation, the risk of myocardial infarction and stroke dropped by 38%, Duncan says. According to the data, smoking and bird smoke kill nearly six million people a year. The lungs, but it extends to all organs of the body and accelerates aging and irreversibly alters the shape of the blood vessel wall, making them fragile.