It is designed to give you the support you need to successfully stop smoking. Our Tobacco Treatment Service is here to help smokers quit. Yale Cancer Center, a National Cancer Institute (NCI)-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center, is committed to compassionate, leading-edge care for cancer patients. These benefits still occur, even if the cancer was not caused by smoking. That’s because stopping smoking makes cancer treatments more effective, lessens treatment complications, and decreases the chances of cancer returning-or a secondary cancer from forming.
Oncologists strongly encourage those just diagnosed with cancer to quit using tobacco products as well. By remaining smoke-free for several years, you can lower your risk of chronic diseases such as heart disease, chronic pulmonary disease (COPD), and cancer. Heart rate and blood pressure, which are elevated in smokers, will begin to return to normal levels. Within hours, days, and weeks of quitting, your health will improve. It’s never too late to quit smoking, even if smoking has been a big part of your life.
