Smoking and Cancer?

Question

im 28 years old iv been a full time smoker since age 12, whats the chances/% of me devloping cancer right now???... what are good ways to plan and try to quit?

Answer 1

you have done a great job of increasing your risk of cancer and COPD.
see your doctor for a prescription of Chantix.

Answer 2

The strategy with the best hope of long term success is to simply go cold turkey. What you need is a change of lifestyle. You can't just quit smoking and not change at least some of your habits which contribute to smoking.

You should commit yourself to a healthy lifestyle including eating well and getting regular exercise. One of the best things you can do to quit smoking is to busy yourself with other things and keep your mind off of it. The first couple weeks might be hard, but it gets progressively easier. You also need to avoid places where there are likely to be smokers present.

You can do it.

I know lots of people who've tried and failed. But I also know people who, seemingly against all odds, were able to successfully quit. And they're a lot happier too.

Maybe this will help too - I had an uncle who died of lung cancer. He originally had brain cancer, which the doctors linked to his lifelong smoking. They actually got it in remission and with treatment, he was beating it.

Do you think that was enough to get him to quit smoking?

The cancer came back, this time in his lungs.

I stayed with him the last three weeks of his life, sleeping in the same room to make sure he was okay. Hearing him choking and fighting for every breath as he slept was one of the most disturbing experiences of my life. The only thing that brought him any relief was the morphine fanny pack he wore, pumping an occasional shot into his system.

He smoked up to the day he died.

Answer 3

Your chances of developing cancer right now are slim. But be aware that when you smoke you do a lot of other damage over the long run. One of my carotid arteries is blocked 60% caused by smoking. If you want to quit never say 'I am trying to give it up'. You say 'I don't smoke'. Full Stop. When you feel like a smoke eat an apple, take a shower, go for a walk. After a couple of weeks it will taste like straw.

Answer 4

I think you're on the half way of developing a cancer but better you ask your doctor for you to be examined...Well being a chain smoker have a big risk of developing many disorders in the body and may also cause abnormality to your baby soon.. the first symptom of smoking is usually manifested when your toes on your feet became blueish or jaundice....Eating onions on your food will hepl you little to keep your self away from that smoke but its all in the mind if you really wantr to stop then you can stop it by your own will.

Answer 5

Because people are all different and all that good stuff, it is extremely hard to quantify an exact percentage of chance that you'll contract cancer.

From a statistical standpoint, however, any potentially dangerous behavior that is allowed to continue only increases the potential danger for you.

For example, if someone threw a knife at you, it might miss. If you let them do it 20 times a day for 12 years, you're bound to get hit.

The best way to quit is to just stop. It takes a serious amount of will power, and the real secret is that you have to WANT to stop. Otherwise, you'll just make excuses for yourself.

I did it three years ago, and its the best thing I've ever done for my health.

For support, questions, and other details, check out:

www.quitnet.com

Good luck!!

Answer 6

I quit smoking 4yrs in May this year.I was addicted as bad as a heroine addict &had been trying to quit for 15yrs.
I just gave up & let God take them away from me.
My sister,who was 4yrs younger than me,smoked non filter camels & home rolled to keep others from bumming off her.She quit 3 or 4 times & went back,even after 2 yrs clean once.I lost her May 30th 2006 to multiple myeloma(cancer in various parts of her body).
She didn't always smoke non filtered.For the past few yrs she smoked filtered shorts.
Cancer is a devious disease & can attack all at once or a little at a time.It doesn't have any particular person or race or sex that it destroys.
I wanted to quit so badly that I finally just cried out to God & admitted i was powerless to quit on my own.I fell asleep sobbing & when I woke,I had no desire for any kind of smoke & it was like I had been reborn!
This iswhy I get so sad when folks say there is no God.He really is there & He loves us.I am living proof!
May you have success to quit & God bless you!

Answer 7

The chances could be above 50% I think. Better stop smoking before it's too late. Go for counseling and try some products that can help you quit smoking. Smoking can also cause emphysema, besides cancer. Emphysema causes a lot of breathing difficulties. Oh, my grandpa contracted it too and he died in the bathroom. Want that to happen to you?

Answer 8

your chances of developing cancer are about 90%, the longer you smoke the closer you get to that percentage, if you stop tomorrow, your lungs begin to heal right away, it takes a good while for them to totally clear but 20 min after your last ciggie, you begin to get more oxygen in each breath. mostly your chance of developing cancer gets higher after 40 but you started pretty early, use the patch, chew some of the gum in between times to bolster yourself and get hypnotized in the beginning to help you . good luck.