I'm 19 and started smoking 6 months ago.
Today is the 25th anniversary of my grandmother's death from ovarian cancer and it got me thinking about what I'm doing to myself every time I light up. She was a smoker, but quit about a year before she got sick (my mother doesn't think she completely quit though). I'm wondering if anyone has any information about just how much damage 6 months of "casual" (a pack every 2 weeks or so) smoking can do to your body, especially concerning cancer risks.
Also, I know the women in my family have a genetic predisposition for both ovarian and breast cancer, with the ovarian cancer skipping generations... I do realize that with my family history I am one of the LAST people who should be smoking.
Thanks for your help!
Welcome agoelz13.
I believe in two things, or maybe three.
1. We can't change what is hereditary and there is hereditary cancer in your genes.
2. I believe what brings Cancer on is stress, excessive stress.
3. There are thousands of harmful chemicals going into your body, it reduces your rate of living by at least 10 years, but can clear your lungs completely if you give up within a 10 year period but almost immediately, start to mend.
Every cigarette does damage, to your teeth, your wrinkles as you get older, your lungs for emphysema, and cancer is a risk but not necessarily the cause if one was to get it.
I smoke, I wish I didn't I will stop... I know all of the above inside out.... AND I WILL STOP.
So, I am not a reformed smoker, nor a non-smoker telling you this, rather a smoker.
Quit, 6 months is easy to trick the brain that you are a non-smoker... it's when you have been doing it for years, you will stop, start, stop, start .. you don't need that it will "stress you"...
Your young, so do it now...
In Australia, our cigarette packets have pictures of gangrene, pictures of a child with a breathing operatives, to remind us....
It's not pretty to look at.
CW
Do we not realise that in order to find a soul
It doesn't happen over night
if truth were to be told.
Like everything in life that's hard to achieve
you must believe!
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