Lifestyle changes to prevent stroke make it possible to significantly reduce your risk if approached the right way. Taking small steps and making the right changes gradually can decrease your risk of stroke by 80%. Use this list of five things you can start changing today to reduce your risk for a stroke tomorrow.

1. Get Moving

Just 10 minutes of walking every day helps lower your chances of stroke, heart attack, cardiac arrest, diabetes and so much more. Walking gets your blood moving as your blood vessels dilate during activity, strengthening your heart. Regular exercise can also help you maintain a healthy weight and tamp down high cholesterol. You don’t have to do high-impact cardiovascular exercise to see and feel results.

Walking is one of the easiest ways to get in your physical activity. You can simply get up and walk around your house for 10 minutes between meetings or phone calls every day to get in the recommended 150 minutes of exercise per week or walk for 30 minutes five times a week.

2. Control Your Blood Pressure

High blood pressure accounts for almost half of all strokes around the world. It’s also linked to an irregular heartbeat, which can be a precursor to heart disease such as atrial fibrillation. If you’ve been diagnosed with high blood pressure and take medication to control it, be sure you’re regularly checking your blood pressure from home. Communicate with your physician about your readings so you can be sure medicines are working and your blood pressure stays under control.

3. Focus on Nutrition

Eating a healthy diet, like the Dietary Approach to Stop Hypertension (DASH), is one more way both men and women can prevent a stroke. A healthy approach to food means a hardcore focus on nutrition, not on losing weight. A healthy diet can help lower blood pressure, prevent diabetes and obesity and just make you feel better. The DASH diet focuses on fruit and vegetables, fish, low-fat dairy, whole grains and healthy fats, avoiding saturated fats and processed foods.

4. Limit Alcohol Consumption

If you drink alcohol, the latest research on alcohol consumption recommends you have only one drink per day to lower your risk for high blood pressure and stroke. Portion control is key. One drink means one 5-ounce glass of wine, one 12-ounce beer or one 1.5-ounce glass of hard liquor.

5. Quit Smoking

If you’re a smoker, you need to quit. For every five cigarettes you smoke per day, you raise your stroke risk by 12% and for Black adults, the risk is even higher. The good news is that there are smoking cessation programs your physician can help you with and once you kick the habit, you’ll have eliminated one of the biggest risk factors for high blood pressure and stroke. Bonus, you’ll be helping your heart, lungs and brain out, too, all while reducing some signs of aging.