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Smoking

If you are a smoker aged 50 or over, you are ten times more likely to suffer a heart attack than a non-smoker.

No matter what age you are, if you stop smoking, your chances of contracting coronary heart disease is halved after only one year.

Within 10-15 years of stopping smoking, an ex-smoker’s chance of developing lung cancer is only slightly more than for someone who has never smoked.

Find out how you can stop smoking with the help of NHS Lanarkshire’s smoking cessation services.