If I keep smoking a pack a day?(sometimes more)?

Question

At what age,estimated...do you think it'd start affecting me?

I want to quit,but I really find it VERY hard to do so.

I've tried the gum,and even tried cold turkey..but it didnt work out.

I'm 16,btw. I started smoking when i was 14. I smoke marlboro reds.

Answer 1

I have Emphysema from Smoking , I am 64. Read about it then you decide ok

Answer 2

When your dealing with cancer and various lung ailments, its a matter of probability.

Your probability of these various ailments increased SLIGHTLY with your first puff. Its additive. Every puff makes it more likely. Its true that at some point the probabilities start increasing faster, but at different points for the various different diseases.

Do you know the game of Russian Roulette? Every puff adds a bullet to the gun. If you keep playing the game, it WILL kill you. The only way it won't happen is if something else kills you first.

Of course there's another element to this: Every puff makes it harder to quit so even ignoring threshholds for the various diseases there is a multiplicative effect (rather than just additive).

Yes, as a smoker, you might die of something else. In some ways it can be worse: Smoking can incapacitate you but NOT kill you, so that you spend the rest of your life gasping for air while speaking with artificial vocal chords.

Even if you do die of some apparently unrelated disease, its known that long term smoking has a deliterious effect on your body's immune system. That is, smoking makes it more likely that some infection that you could otherwise have fought off will kill you.

Answer 3

It may have affected your health already. Everyone is different. I started at 14 also, never smoked a pack a day (usually about 5 cigarettes a day) and by the time I was 20 I was getting strep throat and bronchitis at least 3 times a year (had to get the tonsils removed and the dr said that he had never seen them so damaged on someone my age). Still, even today (quit smoking about 4 years ago) if I even breath a hint of someone else's smoke I get a sore throat. I know this is all due to smoking.

Answer 4

Everyone thinks of lung cancer, but you should also read about emphysema. Surely you have seen individuals in motorized wheel chairs with the green tubes in their noses. The vast majority of them were heavy smokers whose lungs now function only marginally.

Smoking is very habit forming, nicotine is very addicting. Make every effort to stop.

Answer 5

It is affecting you now. With every puff! The affects are so subtle you don't feel them or realize they are happening until one day you wake up with pain or you can't get your breath and then a doctor is going to tell you something VERY SCARY!!!!! Stop now any way you can but definitely STOP!!!

Answer 6

It started affecting you the first time you smoked a cigarette...

Answer 7

now is when it's affecting you every time you light up you take 5 min off your life

Answer 8

It's affecting you now.

It will never get easier than it is now. Keep on trying - you can do it!