Although this is true, you can recover if you quit when it happens. Why someone would continue once they've compromised their ability to breathe is bewildering.
It really does happen from one moment to the next, not how you imagine it where you sense your oxygen intake gradually diminishing and you look to the future thinking you'll know when you really better quit. It doesn't happen that way. It takes you by surprise. One minute you're fine, the next second you can't catch your breath. Just like that. Now you feel like you're drowning every second of the day and all you can think about is dying.
I know because I quit exactly ten years ago having smoked a pack a day for 40 years. When I was 15 my mom would buy a carton for my dad and a carton for me per week. It was a different world then. Anyway I suddenly lost my breath and knew exactly why. For the last 5 years that I smoked there wasn't a moment I didn't have a cigarette between my fingers. I quit on the spot and struggled for a year and and a half rushing multiple times to the Emerge convinced I'm going to drop dead because I could not breath.
After about a year and a half that levelled off and reversed. It took a couple more years but I now have my breath back and lots of stamina. I can do lots of cardiovascular activity without tiring. I'm a 66 year old drywaller and regularly hang 60-100 sheets of drywall by myself, ceilings and walls. But first I carry it down to the basement non stop. I don't have to stop to catch my breath. In fact I don't stop for breaks or even lunch so I can leave early afternoon. I'm not yet ready to retire. I run my own small business.
I was diagnosed with COPD and have 89% lung capacity a person my age should have. I don't sense any deficit. The medical community assured me I'm no miracle; I recovered because I quit immediately when my breathing became compromised. I can honestly declare I had zero problem quitting. No cravings. I consider it pure poison now. That experience scared the $hit out of me.
Yeah, that's a whole other topic. I've experimented with all kinds of substances. But the thing is, when it stops being fun, why are you still doing it?
Needtubes,
Smoking and other things increase the risks, apparently you are not guilty of raising your risk.
All I can do is wish you the best. Hopefully you can find your best course.
ES
Smoking and other things increase the risks, apparently you are not guilty of raising your risk.
All I can do is wish you the best. Hopefully you can find your best course.
ES
You may already be aware of this but I'll mention it. Radon gas is the second leading cause of lung cancer. It's everywhere in more or less concentrations in the ground caused by the decomposition of uranium. It emanates up through the ground right through your concrete floor. The danger is when it concentrates in your basement. Your next door neighbour may have zero while yours could be dangerous. The Gov. hands out test kits free of charge. It's a charcoal cannister you just put on your basement floor for a few months and then send it back for testing.
Naturally evaluating long term risk is not something we've evolved. No need. In 20 years you can do everything you need to perpetuate your genes...
Many years ago I heard an interview with a cardiologist who said it was basically his job to keep people alive long enough that they had the chance to die of cancer.
Which I took to mean that cancer is there results of natural processes that break down at some point.
We all have a clock, but there are things we can do to delay what is inevitable if we live long enough.
Which I took to mean that cancer is there results of natural processes that break down at some point.
We all have a clock, but there are things we can do to delay what is inevitable if we live long enough.
My father had two siblings, my mother five. Of them only two died relatively young, the two that smoked for many years. Mom's older brother had emphysema due to smoking. Dad's younger sister died of lung cancer. I saw her in the hospital just a day or two before she died. She was just a husk of herself, and too far gone to ever know we were there. I got the message and never took up smoking.
Bill
Bill
I think cancer is not a disease , but an evolutionary tool.Those who die of it are not fit enough to resist chemical asault, stress, background radiation...Black people's skin for example is a very successful adaptation to sun's ultaviolet radiation that kills a lot of northern europeans through skin cancers if left untreated .
Unfortunately we only judge it as individuals, not as part of a species tries...
https://abc7chicago.com/michael-flatley-riverdance-malignant-melanoma-cancer/12694042/
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It says a lot about the power of addictions that people continue to smoke through the hole in their throat where their larynx used to be.
Tom
I believe its from all the toxic pollutions in our environment. Its in our food/water/air/soil/household items. Its in our PLASTIC water bottles that almost everyone drinks from. Floride in the water. Cellphone/cell phone towers and power lines near housing complexes. Its everywhere.
Cancer world wide is a billion dollar industry, imagine finding a cure for cancer, all those billion dollar industry would disappear. 😉
While there are some wrong quotes for some cancer treatments, those who survive naturally without getting sick are the true biologic weapon against the universe adversity.Imagine there are creatures living in sulphuric acid ...
Never liked smoking growing up, and watched it kill my father so I'm somewhat anti.
It's clearly not so bad now, but I always hated the arrogance and selfishness of smokers who saw fit to impose their habit on others in public areas as if it was some sort of inalienable right.
It's clearly not so bad now, but I always hated the arrogance and selfishness of smokers who saw fit to impose their habit on others in public areas as if it was some sort of inalienable right.
I agree about "second hand smoke", my parents both smoked so I basically smoked second hand. I never smoked because of my parents but I do use chewing tobacco or snuf.
Speaking of which I am going to watch the movie "THE LAST OF US", to see the survival of the fittest? 🙂
Ask a Australian smoker what its like to smoke here... @$60+ a pack
Glad I gave up back in 1999 when they were $7 a pack... health befits aside, it'll affect me later probably be because I started smoking at 13(28 when I gave up)
Glad I gave up back in 1999 when they were $7 a pack... health befits aside, it'll affect me later probably be because I started smoking at 13(28 when I gave up)
You are out of dark forest on the sunshine ravine.
It is said that 10 years after quit smoking, you are out of high health risk and 20 years after, your health condition could be comparable to those that never smoked.
My mother smoked 2 packs a day for 30 years. At age of 50, that increased by additional half pack smoked during night (she was waking from sleep to smoke). At age 54 she quit smoking. She will be 89 this month and at this very moment is baking cakes.
Quit that tobacco thing at about 40 years of age. One of the best decisions I've made. Health would be garbage at age 57 now if I'd stuck with it.
I have decided to stop smoking. Best is to not buy it.
Reading all opinions here is an obvious warning to all smokers.
But I will use snuff instead.
I have already ordered some snuff tobacco.
Reading all opinions here is an obvious warning to all smokers.
But I will use snuff instead.
I have already ordered some snuff tobacco.
Yes. I wasn't exactly "fine" but I was still working and living a busy life. Then I woke up on the floor with a sharp pain in my chest, gasping for breath.
There was nothing to think about. I had smoked my last cigarette.
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