Smoking, smoking cessation, and lung cancer in the UK since 1950: combination of national statistics with two case-control studies

By R. Peto, S. Darby, H. Deo, P. Silcocks, E. Whitley, R. Doll. British medical journal, 2000

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A life course approach to chronic disease epidemiology. (2005, background): “The age at smoking cessation is the key to reducing risk, which declines fairly rapidly after cessation (51, 105, 154, 193).”
Understanding the potential of teachable moments: the case of smoking cessation. (2003, background): “A host of health events are associated with cigarette smoking (e.g. heart attack, diagnosis of cancer) (Peto et al., 2000; US Department of Health and Human Services, 2000), a number of which, such as poor pregnancy outcomes and cervical cancer, are specific to women (US Department of Health and…”
Age and Cancer Risk (2014, positive): “One study from the United Kingdom found that smoking cessation even up to age 60 years significantly reduced the risk of developing lung cancer.(87)”