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Evaluate your physical dependency on nicotine, check your lifetime pack-years exposure, and see your potential savings and physical recovery timeline if you choose to quit.
Assess nicotine dependency, lifetime pack-years, and quitting benefits
The Fagerström Test for Nicotine Dependence is a standard tool used by healthcare professionals to evaluate physical addiction to nicotine. A higher score reflects stronger physical tolerance, meaning that biological withdrawal symptoms will likely be more intense.
One pack-year is defined as smoking 20 cigarettes (1 pack) per day for one year. This metric is used by doctors to calculate cumulative tissue exposure and identify screening eligibility for lung cancers.
Calculated Exposure
Significant airway remodeling, chronic capillary damage, and elevated risk of coronary event or stroke. Quitting now is vital to arrest further tissue decay.
COPD & Emphysema
Chronic cigarette smoke destroys elastic lung alveoli and narrows bronchioles, leading to chronic dyspnea. Damage is largely irreversible but stops progressing upon quitting.
Arteriosclerosis & Vascular Disease
Nicotine and toxins provoke chronic arterial inflammation, plaque buildup, and vasoconstriction, which dramatically increases heart attack and stroke risks.
Cellular Mutation (Cancers)
Cigarette tar contains over 70 carcinogens that directly modify cellular DNA, disabling tumor suppressor genes and causing malignancies in lungs, kidneys, bladder, and throat.
of life recovered every year after quitting (based on average 11 minutes lost per cigarette smoked).
1 Month
₹10,640
1 Year
₹1,27,750
5 Years
₹6,38,750
Estimated 10-year cumulative savings: ₹12,77,500
20 Minutes
Blood pressure, pulse rate, and temperature of hands and feet return to normal levels.
12 Hours
Carbon monoxide level in the blood drops to normal, allowing oxygen levels to rise to healthy levels.
24 Hours
Anxiety and craving levels peak, and the statistical risk of coronary heart disease begins to decrease.
48 Hours
Damaged nerve endings start to regrow. Senses of smell and taste begin to sharpen noticeably.
72 Hours
Bronchial tubes relax, making breathing easier. Total lung capacity begins to increase.
2 - 12 Weeks
Circulation improves significantly, walking becomes easier, and lung function increases by up to 30%.
1 - 9 Months
Coughing, sinus congestion, fatigue, and shortness of breath decrease. Lung cilia regrow, improving mucus clearance.
1 Year
The excess risk of coronary heart disease is halved compared to that of a continuing smoker.
5 Years
Stroke risk is reduced to that of a non-smoker. Risk of mouth, throat, and esophagus cancers is cut in half.
10 Years
Lung cancer death rate is half that of a smoker. Risk of bladder, kidney, and pancreatic cancers drops.
15 Years
Statistical risk of coronary heart disease returns to that of a person who has never smoked.