One Year :
Your risk of heart disease will now roughly half that of a current smoker . The risk will continue to decline past this point .
15 Years :
Your risk of a heart attack will be the same as someone who has never smoked tobacco .
10 Years :
Your risk of developing lung cancer drops to half that of a current smoker .
Where does vaping fit into all this ?
If you want to stop smoking , there are plenty of options out there , from nicotine replacement therapy ( NRT ) to hypnotherapy .
However , a number of recent studies have shown that e-cigarettes are much more successful than traditional NRT and keeping people from smoking , especially when used in conjunction with behavioural support . A 2019 Queen Mary University ( QMU ) study found that smokers are twice as likely to successfully quit with e-cigarettes than with nicotine patches or gum . The randomised controlled trial was the first of its kind to compare traditional nicotinereplacement therapy ( NRT ) with e-cigarettes , which are not licensed medicines .
All participants were also given behavioural support . By the end of the year , 18 percent of the e-cigarette users had successfully quit smoking , compared to 10 percent of the NRT group . Also in 2019 , a cross-sectional survey of almost 20,000 quit attempts revealed that vapers were 95 percent more likely to successfully quit smoking than those who went cold-turkey . Traditional nicotine-replacement therapy ( NRT ) such as patches and gums had a quit rate of just 34 percent . NRT was only successful when prescribed , reinforcing the importance of stop-smoking support for this quit method . No wonder they are the most popular smokingcessation aid in the UK .
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