When you stop vaping, your body begins to show improvements almost immediately. Within just 20 minutes, your heart rate and blood pressure start to normalize. After 24 hours, your risk of heart disease decreases as your blood pressure lowers, oxygen levels rise, and the negative effects on cholesterol and blood clot formation reduce.
If you manage to quit for a month, nicotine is flushed out of your system, and your lung capacity starts to improve, leading to less shortness of breath and coughing. At the nine-month mark, lung health significantly improves as the microscopic hair-like structures in your lungs regenerate, helping to clear mucus and fight infections more effectively.
After a year, your risk of heart disease is cut in half, and after 10 to 15 years, the risk of lung, pancreatic, mouth, and throat cancer is reduced by 50 percent. Eventually, after 15 years, your risk of developing coronary heart disease becomes the same as a nonsmoker’s.
