If you are already have COPD or chronic asthma or have a severely depressed immune system, then you shouldn't start smoking anyway unless you just want to do yourself in quicker.
You are just being paranoid and hypochondriacal by thinking a little smoking caused these irreversible traumas. Lung cancer is such a scary thing. Yet, it is so hard for people to quit smoking! People like me, that smell bad and are spending too much money on cigarettes.
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WHY is that? Bet ya have no answers. I got a answer ITS the air we all breathe.. What if its neither.. Something NEEDS to be done about the fact that lung cancer in people who've never smoked seems to be on the rise. I want a study done on this FACT but it will go ignored. I'm not here to bash smokers. I've never smoked. My husband, John, does. Been married 32 yrs and hope there is more, but, I am not sure.
He's 67 and I'm I just know that smoking since he was about 13, has caught up with him. His coughing is harsh and all day and phlegm is constant. Wheezes and has no energy. He used to eat, but, even that is down to toast and coffee and I make him lunch and supper doesn't interest him. He's lost weight. He does almost all day and is up in the wee hours having a smoke in his bedroom. Used to be ours, but, I sleep on the couch as the coughing and smoke bothers me so much.
But, I hardly sleep. I asked him to see the doctor, but, he won't go. Just lights up and has his beers per night and tunes me out. There is so much I wish we could do, but, he has trouble walking and is irritable a lot. I promised him "in sickness and in health" but I don't want him sick. All he does is watch tv and lay down. I feel him just slipping away every day.
I can't make him go to the doctor's. He's worried what he would be told. He won't give up the smokes. Dear Johns Wife It sounds like your husband has Copd.
I have been looking after my mom for 4 years now and many of the things you describe my mom has had. If he wont quite at least try and get him to smoke out side. Copd is not cure able but if he quits and starts meds the progression of the disease will slow wishing you the best.
My husband had stage four lung cancer has been cured within the Rick Simpson Hemp oil. My husband has been through chemo 3 times, but this time his condition was getting worse that I was afraid it will kill him. When a friend of mine directed me to Rick Simpson at: ricksimpsoncannabisoil outlook. You can contact him through his email: ricksimpsoncannabisoil outlook. Emily smith, United State of America. My name is Lindsay I smoke.. My mother doesn't know if she did I would be done quit because she wouldn't allow that.
I've never felt so terrified in my life I watched my grandmother die of lung cancer and its a slow painful and a suspenseful death. Someone anyone please Just help me. Consult a doctor and ask for advice or a therapist.. I was wondering I've been smoking off and on but just started taking it into my lungs 2 days ago. I'm quitting smoking because I don't want to be addicted to it and don't want lung cancer or anything else.
Do you think I'll be ok? I'm only First off don't listen to "Cga". They're trying to freak you out, and are just being a troll. While I agree that only one cigarette can potentially increase your risk, that doesn't equal 15 years of smoking.
Smoking without inhaling can still lead to medical conditions in the mouth or gums however. I've smoked for 5 years, sometimes I inhale, sometimes I don't.
Quiting now though would greatly reduce the risk of developing a disease later on in life. As people have mentioned it can be a hit or miss. Other factors play a huge part in our overal health like the food we eat, and our environmental location.
The biggest point to make is don't freak out by what "Cga" said. If you truly wish to quit there are helpful sites out there you just need to put in a small amount of research. I have been a heavy smoker for four years now, i actually have started feeling some sot of sharp pains around inside my stomach, in my chest i feel i feel a burning, and whenever i go for anothher cigarrete, i lose water in my mouth.
I really wanna quit this behaviour, please help advice how to start quitting. Am just seeing am dying soon please help. I have been smoking since I was 10 and i am now 19, I smoke e cigarettes sometimes but still smoke a pack of regular cigarettes a day. I started having breathing problems a few months ago and I am thinking of just sticking to the e cig but it seems i still cant breathe on those either, it would be hard for me to quit because my grandmother whom i live with smokes mom, dad other grandmother, etc.
I will smoke cigarettes per day Hey kid, you wana a better, easier to understand version? I am only 20 years old man. I started a social smoker in high school the same as you. I didn't believe anyone about smoking, risks, cancer, or addiction. I smoked trying to be cool. Few here, few there, then I finnished school and got a job. Stress over welmed me. I started smoking more.. From there I got hooked. Didn't have the power to quit.
I went through hell week for the se. Next thing I knew I started coughing up blood, had knots in my throat, weak feeling and more..
Spread to my lympnots.. And keep in mind I'm only 20yrs old right now. For maybe 4 years if that. And almost half of that was social smoking. Took me over a year to quit smoking after I found out about having cancer I lost my job due to my health and then lost my medicare due to obama.
Think about that each puff bro.. Just do it. This is simply wrong unfortunately. Although the percentage may be low if lifestyle is sedentary and stressful Cancer can strike in 30s and 40s as well. Immune system and body is kept busy with physical activity. But in the absence of activities body deteriorates rapidly.
Am a smoker, I smoke a pack per day, but my fear is that how many years does it takes a smoker to start hving the repercussion? My mom smokes cigarettes, but had a mini stroke, is it possible that she could pass in a few years, or no? I'm really worried, but she can't quit. Can she die? Or is she going to live awhle longer? After she got out of the hospital today, she smoked a cig. She won't die anytime soon, can she? I appreciate the information given in the answer by Dr. Brawley, and the statistics regarding frequency of smoking and lung cancer risk, however the question of how long it will take to develop lung cancer was not answered, i.
I quit smoking in after 40 plus years of smoking approx two packs a day. The reason: cancer of the larynx caused by smoking. Before I had a very pleasant baritone voice; now I speak with a rasp and my voice will rise for no apparent reason. It was hard to quit but I am thankful each day that I did. I will not stand on a bandstand but do encourage everyone who smokes to just stop.
Thanks for reading. And good luck! I am forced to put up with second hand smoke in all kinds of places on daily basis, and suffer from allergic reactions because of it, and the thing that I am more frustrated about is why does it take so damn long for smokers do die already of cancer?!!! I see old geezers constantly smoking like a chimney. If lung cancer screening is right for you, your doctor can refer you to a high-quality screening facility.
The treatment for cancer depends on the type of cancer and the stage of the disease how severe the cancer is and whether it has spread. Often, the goal of treatment is to cure the cancer. In other cases, the goal is to control the disease or to reduce symptoms for as long as possible. The treatment plan for a person may change over time. Most treatment plans include surgery, radiation therapy, or chemotherapy.
Other plans involve biological therapy a treatment that helps your immune system fight cancer. Some cancers respond best to a single type of treatment. Other cancers may respond best to a combination of treatments. For patients who get very high doses of chemotherapy or radiation therapy, a stem cell transplant, also known as a bone marrow transplant, may be recommended by their doctor.
This is because high-dose therapies destroy both cancer cells and normal blood cells. A stem cell transplant can help the body to make healthy blood cells to replace the ones lost due to the cancer treatment.
Quitting smoking improves the outlook the prognosis for people with cancer. People who continue to smoke after diagnosis raise their risk for future cancers and death. They are more likely to die from cancer than nonsmokers and are more likely to develop a second new tobacco-related cancer. An ostomy or stoma is a surgical opening made to the body that allows waste to be eliminated from the body.
An ostomy pouch is located around the opening to collect waste for removal. Ostomies are usually done during the first stages of surgical treatment to remove cancer. Permanent ostomies are used when cancer has resulted in the removal of the entire colon or the end of it. The United Ostomy Associations of America UOAA external icon website focuses on the positive quality of life people can attain following ostomy surgery and provides information on a variety of topics, including:.
Skip directly to site content Skip directly to page options Skip directly to A-Z link. Section Navigation. Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Syndicate. Minus Related Pages. Many people think low tar or filtered cigarettes are safer. While you ask about lung cancer, it is important to remember that occasional cigarette use can increase risk of cardiovascular disease dramatically.
This is very pertinent, because cigarette smoking kills more people from cardiovascular diseases heart attack, stroke and peripheral vascular disease than all cancers combined. It is a common observation that a town that makes smoking in public illegal lowers it heart attack rate within six months. This is primarily because the decrease in secondhand smoke exposure decreases the number of heart attacks in nonsmokers.
Just think about the dose of smoke to even a casual smoker over six months compared to a nonsmoker exposed to occasional secondhand smoke. Cigarette smoking is linked to a number of diseases.
Lung cancer is most famously associated, but tobacco smoking causes cancers of the head and neck mouth, throat, sinuses , esophagus, stomach, kidney, pancreas, bladder, uterine cervix and even certain types of leukemia. Fourteen different cancers in all are caused by smoking. Smoking also causes chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, such as bronchitis and emphysema. It worsens asthma. Smoking is linked to high blood pressure, ulcers, osteoporosis, diabetes and reproductive disorders such as infertility, miscarriage and premature menopause.
There are significant benefits to smoking cessation. Most tobacco-related disease can be prevented if one stops smoking by age Even for older people and for those with tobacco-related disease, there is significant benefit to smoking cessation. On average, the increase in cancer risk from cigarette smoking is very large, but pinpointing the size of the risk increase depends on several factors.
The cancer risk also depends on the type of cancer. For example, compared with people who have never smoked cigarettes, a current smoker has a 25 times greater risk of lung cancer and a 2 times greater risk of bladder cancer. These are both very striking increases in risk, but the increased risk for lung cancer is much, much larger than for bladder cancer. Based on the fact that cigarette smoking has been so common, is linked to so many different types of cancer, and causes such large increases in cancer risk, cigarette smoking is estimated to cause almost one-half of all cancer deaths in the United States.
A: Pipe and cigar smoking also cause cancer. The risks of cancer from smoking pipes and cigars are, on average, the risks are less than that for cigarettes, but still quite large. Compared with people who never smoked cigarettes, pipe and cigar smokers have a 5 times greater risk of lung cancer, whereas cigarette smokers have a 25 times greater risk of lung cancer.
Smoking pipes and cigars still leads to a very large increase in risk, but the risk is less than the truly enormous increase in lung cancer risk caused by cigarette smoking. The scientific evidence indicates that pipe and cigar smoke is just as harmful as cigarette smoke. The reason the cancer risk is lower in pipe and cigar smokers compared with cigarette smokers is that pipe and cigar smokers tend to smoke less frequently, and they tend to inhale less deeply compared with cigarette smokers.
This is another example of how cancer risk is related to the dose of exposure to tobacco smoke. A: This is a critical question, but unfortunately right now, this is a very difficult question to answer. You might find it hard to believe, but back in the mids, cigarette smoking was perceived to be safe, similar to chewing gum.
In contrast, e-cigarettes have been around for about 10 years, and the products have already changed a lot during that time. It usually takes many more years of data and lots of research to determine if being exposed to something like e-cigarettes can confidently be labeled a risk factor for cancer.
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