years. of course, the sooner you quit, the better it is. smoking is not good for you. besides lung cancer and heart disease which will increase by 20%, bladder cancer is one of the things we see all the time as a result practice all the time as a result of this. you wake up one day, you see blood in the urine, you scope and unfortunately it's in the bladder and that's not such a good situation. what i would say is put pressure on your husband to quit smoking now. >> so dr. siegel, i quit smoking, you think you're okay, but you could have complications. >> first of all, i challenge anyone out there to go to an anatomy lab. when we start as medical students, the first thing we see is a black lung. that's how bad it looks if you've been a big smoker. if you quit, i congratulate you. your risk of heart disease goes down by 50% over the first year. your risk of lung cancer goes down, your risk of emphysema goes down. if you're stuck in a house with a spouse that's still smoking,