Stopping Smoking To Reduce Your Risk Of Cancer
Pictured to the left is a Cancer Cell.
Cancer is something all smokers fear being diagnosed with, but every time you smoke your risk increases. Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death in the United States. 90% of cancer deaths among men and 80% of cancer deaths among women are attributed to smoking.
Lung Cancer is not the only type of cancer you have to worry about if you use tobacco products. Unfortunately smoking puts you at risk for many types of cancers and each one of them can metastasize and lead to your demise.
Smoking Leads To Many Types Of Cancer
- Lung Cancer
- Mouth Cancer
- Pharyngeal Cancer (pharynx is behind the nose)
- Cancer of the Larynx (you will need a trach for this one, it's your voice box)
- Cancer of the Oesophagus (gullet)
- Stomach Cancer
- Pancreatic Cancer
- Primary Liver Cancer (cancer that started in the liver)
- Cancer of the Cervix (neck of the womb)
- Kidney Cancer
- Bladder Cancer
- Breast Cancer risk is increased
Stopping Smoking To Reduce Your Risk Of Many Ailments
Cancer is not your only worry from nicotine's hazardous effects on your body. There are many ailments you can succumb to when you smoke and all are torturous. Smoking can lead you to dying in a hospital bed, drowning in your own secretions trapped in your lungs. Smoking can take away your ability to take in enough Oxygen to keep your body going. Imagine being out of breath continuously. Constantly struggling just to breathe.
Smoking can do so much and none of it is good. It will not provide you with an easy or gentle death. Smoking will take you down, it is just a matter of time. It is a very rare thing to be an 80 year old smoker that dies from unrelated causes. VERY RARE!
Smoking Can Lead To Any Of These Problems Or A Combination Of Them
- Atherosclerosis (hardening of the arteries)
- Hypertension
- Cardiovascular Disease
- Strokes
- Heart Attacks
- Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (4th leading cause of death in the US)
- Beurger's Disease (acute inflammation and clotting of arteries and veins-affected in the hands and feet and can lead to gangrene and digit removal)
- Heart Disease
- Acute Myeloid Leukemia
- Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm
- Cataracts
- Macular Degeneration (leads to blindness)
- Periodontitis
- Pneumonia
- Erectile Disfunction