I was close to 50 years smoking, (I honestly don't remember my age when I started), and I can verify as above... NO, IT IS NOT TOO LATE to enjoy benefits from quitting!! You might not get "everything" back (I have COPD), you may not have dodged the cancer or heart disease bullets, but your life will improve immensely when you aren't trying to cram it into the moments between cigarettes!!
I was diagnosed with lung cancer 3 1/2 years after I quit, and my first thought was "Boy I'm glad I won't have to go through whatever lies ahead while scheming to go get a fix!!!" . It ended up not so bad for treatment since I caught it early (GET YOUR LOW-DOSE CT SCAN FOR CANCER SCREENING!!) , but you get the idea. Rushing out of a long chemo session to smoke? NOT FOR ME! (I didn't need chemo, but there's the picture).
In the meantime, you can smell the roses, and claim your life back to spend with family & loved ones instead of with cigarettes. True story: I adore the smell of new-mown grass. So much so that every time hubs mowed, I'd be out on the patio in my "smoking spot" to appreciate it... and immediately light up and spread the stink around the place!! Un be lievable!! Now he and I can enjoy it together without the taint.
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