According to Mayo Clinic, quitting tobacco can: slow your heart rate just 20 minutes after your last cigarette reduce the levels of carbon monoxide in your blood to a normal range within 12 hours improve your circulation and lung function within 3 months cut your risk of a heart attack by 50 percent within a year reduce your stroke risk to that of a nonsmoker within 5 to 15 years Quitting smoking can be tough, but its possible
Behavioral interventions for tobacco cessation designed for a specific cultural group produce significantly better results and are more effective than interventions that are not culturally tailored 22,23
Although data on the duration of SLT use, frequency and quantity of SLT consumption, and the quantification of the chemical compounds in the urine of the respondents could guide preventive approaches more accurately, these evaluations were also outside the scope of this study
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