What Happens When A Smoker Quits

[Premium Parrots]

In a nutshell..........








carry on

[Snusdog]

That is a pretty facinating breakdown........never seen it put like that

[Frosted]

Ive noticed that none of these things ever say that when you give up smoking your cancer risk becomes that of a non smoker.

[Skell18]

Ive noticed that none of these things ever say that when you give up smoking your cancer risk becomes that of a non smoker.

because its impossible to say that, just like its impossible to say someone who never smoked in their life will not get cancer, so many other factors involved you can never say you will or won't.

[Ainkor]

Here you go

[GoVegan]

I have seen people get lung cancer 10-15 years after quitting. I think once the damage is done, your screwed.

[Premium Parrots]

lmao, yea thats probably a bit more accurate....

Here you go

[Frosted]

Here's a graph that explains something. Remember seeing this a couple of years ago. Look what happens if you keep smoking after 40.

http://www.cancerresearchuk.org/canc...nd-cancer-risk

[Faylool]

Maybe for some people but not all of them. Depends on genes and other stuff etc. It's still better to quit the smoking even if it's to just breath better. Our bodies decline enough aging but to breath well certainly helps out while trudging the path downwards to our decline,

I have seen people get lung cancer 10-15 years after quitting. I think once the damage is done, your screwed.

[dman21]

I wonder, how much of this applies to someone, like most of us here, who quit smoking, but still continue using nicotine?

[Fazer]

I'm around 7 years now, so i'm doing ok

[Faylool]

Pretty sure I'll be ok. I starting quitting at twenty. I started 7-ish times and quit again before going a whole long time smoking because smoke stinks, ade me cough and tasted bad. At 50 I quit again using Nicorette gum.chewed that 10 years and now I'm loving snus and snuff and vape. But I don't use any of them a whole lot. I've especially cut down on vaping. It was like ALL the time. Not convenient. But good. It's nice to have all three. Give the mouth a break and give the nose a break and enjoy vaping more when it's time

[Chiliphil1]

I've read that if a person stops smoking before age 30 then their lungs will heal to the point of what a non smokers lungs would be.. I sure hope so!

[Darwin]

I wonder, how much of this applies to someone, like most of us here, who quit smoking, but still continue using nicotine?

I'm fairly confident that the incidence of smoking related disease will contract at rates almost exactly the same as in the illustration. The vanishingly small amounts of carcinogens in snus are not going to have much effect on the rates of malignancy occurence. Nicotine itself is obviously addictive and has some effect on the body but it unlikely to result in any statistical increases in cancer rates all by itself. When divorced from the toxins of cigarette smoke nicotine constitutes a very minor health risk.

[crullers]

I have seen people get lung cancer 10-15 years after quitting. I think once the damage is done, your screwed.

This is true, my grandmother died of lung cancer 25 years after she had quit.