why  when you stop smoking you still end up getting lung cancer ten years later?
472490
cause you caused the  cells to mutate in to canserus ones. when you smoked
534519
The main way it affects it is this.  Smoke particles block up the alvioli in the lungs and that is where the exchange of oxygenated and deoxygenated blood cells take place - the more are blocked, the less oxygen can get into the bloodstream and the less oxygen gets to the body's vital organs.  Cigarettes also contains tar which also blocks up the lungs and small traces of arsenic (a poison) which is stored by the body and builds up over a period of time.  As to diseases:\n\nAsthma, Emphysema, permanently stained teeth and fingers, Gingivitis, Gangrene, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), acute myeloid leukemia and cancers of the cervix, kidney, pancreas and stomach; abdominal aortic aneurysm, chronic bronchitis, cataracts, periodontitis and pneumonia, colorectal cancer, liver cancer, prostate cancer or erectile disfunction, increased chances of getting breast cancer, cancer of the bladder, eosophagus, larynx, lung, mouth, throat, linked to chronic lung disease, chronic heart and cardiovascular disease as well as reproductive problems. Expect to die 10 to 15 years earlier than non-smokers. \n\nHope that helps.
73675
I honestly have no idea, when I quit smoking I never had that problem. It probanly has to do with the concept of nicotine withdrawl, you running really low on it, and your body is tring to cope with it, which increases stress (when i quit, i got extremly mad over really stupid stuff), and stress is a common trigger of canker sores (HSV Type 1). Other than that, smoking is bad for the tissue on your mouth, it can cause mouth cancer, just like chewing can, and your body might just be fighting off some irratants in your mouth, which again causes stress.
712866
Your risk of several types of cancer are increased, and more so if you have a genetic predisposition to cancer causing cells. Besides that and, of course, the fact that it isn't legal for you to smoke, you are young and the damage you do to your body will reverse itself if you quit. Your are changing your body's ability to breathe, distribute oxygen to your brain and other organs, circulate blood properly and about thirty other things that your body does involuntarily to keep you alive. So, you need to ask yourself, why do you smoke? While at your age some people (also mostly your age) will form a certain opinion about what kind of person you are, once you hit about the twenty to twenty-two age group and older, most people think you just look weak and ignorant for not knowing what you're doing to your body and too lazy to help yourself (much in the same way most people view those who are morbidly obese). The fact that you're smoking such a small amout says to me that you don't need it, you just like it. I know. We can smell our own. When I quit I promised myself I would light up one or two whenever the mood struck me-this idea helped me quit cold turkey. I had one a couple of months later, a few a couple of months after that, another one about six months later, etc. The more time that passes the less I feel like I like it so the less I smoke. But the only reason I ever did smoke was because I liked it, the feel, the flavor, the smell even. If you can't pinpoint why you do it at all-then why do you do it at all?
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There are so many things that smoking does to the body. The really sad fact is that it does not just hurt the smoker. It really does effect all persons around them. \nA smoker has increased risk of respiratory and vascular complications. Smoking actually creates a tar substance in the lungs and decreases the persons capacity to take in oxygen. Also smokers veins and arteries are constricted from chemicals in the cigarettes. This puts them at a higher risk for blood clot causing stroke.\nMothers who smoke when they are pregnant usually have smaller babies. A nonsmokers umbilical cord (which supplies nourishment to the baby) is usually about wide as a roll of quarters and the smokers umbilical cord is about as thick as a pencil. \nChildren who grow up in the home of a smoker are at higher risk for developing asthma and/or allergies. They can develop lung cancer just as easily as the actual smoker can. Not to mention that growing up with parents who smoke puts them at higher risk for becoming smokers themselves. \nI have a grandfather that smokes. He is eighty. The last several years he has been on oxygen. He wakes up at night because he can't get his breath. He has a barrel chest because that is what your body does to try and help you get more oxygen. Your lungs try to get bigger so they can take in more oxygen because the cigarettes have destroyed portions of the lungs over the many years of smoking. Some people would say he has made it to eighty and that is a long time for a smoker to live. You have to keep in mind that most of his family lived into or close to their 100's. They say that every cigarette takes five minutes off your life. There is no telling how long he could have lived if he had just been able to stop smoking.
805567
yes.  stop smoking.  you'll live longer.  well, not that much longer.  i mean, you could get hit by a car or struck by lightening.  or the flu could do you in.  no matter.  regular smoking will take 10 years off your life.  of course the last 10 are usually pretty crappy, but you see my point.  i sure don't.
200687
you can get cancer at any age whether you smoke or not! Passive smoking (IE breathing in somebody's smoke) is just as bad as doing it yourself. The best thing to do is don't start or give it up NOW! It takes years for your lungs to get back to normal!
18075
Smoking dramatically increases your chance of getting lung cancer (amongst other cancers of the mouth and throat) but is not the ONLY cause of cancer. Sometimes cancer develops not due to smoking. Cigarettes contain cancer CAUSING agents.
735280
According to my mother, who even had a lung transplant thanks to many many years of smoking and its effects - it doesn't stop.  You, howver, choose not to do them anymore.\n\nIt was a habit for you, something that was an intregal part  of your life, as much as your parents, spouse, child are part of your life.  You would never stop missing them; likely you will never stop missing cigarettes.\n\nSeems harsh, doesn't it?
43036
depends on how long you smoked but probably never doesnt mean you shouldnt. dont make things worse; a million other side effects besides your lung damage will be avoided.
115059
I believe that most people, anywhere in the world (almost),\nyoung and old alike, have been inudated with the trials and tribulations of smoking.  It's a shame that this product, which has been a major cause of lung cancer, hasn't been able to get the point across to "everyone", but it hasn't.\nI read that cigerette smoking is more addictive and harder to quit then heroin.  I smoked for 43 yrs. When I was told I had COPD I quit - cold turkey.  My lungs are the age of a 93 yr. olds. They won't get any worse, but they won't get any better. It's not easy to get the point across because there are so many people out there, like me, who really don't believe it will happen to them.  I believe this feeling is lots stronger when we are teenagers.
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Try this link.\n\nhttp://www-medlib.med.utah.edu/WebPath/LUNGHTML/LUNG068.html\n\nThis is how your lungs will look like when it is all too late to quit smoking. Feel free to browse around. There are plenty of cancer images of lung, liver, kidney, colon, and majority of these cancers are at least in part caused by smoking. However, you need a certain degree of knowledge in anatomy and pathology to understand the contents.\n\nTry this link also. \nhttp://www.morehead.org/wellconnected/000041_1.htm\nThis is not as technical as the previous link but it has all the info you need for a good project/report/presentation. They dont have real photos but they have nice drawings.
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You do not know what will be the reason you die until you do. I have known many people who smoked for many years and lived to ripe old age and died a natural death. \n What I find so interesting is that more people are getting sicker and at younger ages no matter what they are doing in their lives.\n Certainly smoking is not good for you. I do not believe people think it is cool anymore to do so as they did back in maybe the 50's. But then it was common to come home and have your wife hand you a martini after work too. Times change,attitudes change\n Habits change, lifestyles change. \n  And guess what there are smokers who actually enjoy smoking and are healthier than some of their contemporaries..\n As I said you do not know what will cause your demise. Their are many things we do and are exposed to in this world of ours that cause many health problems and Social problems (like alcohol)\n You certainly don't hear about the guy who smokes his cigerette then smacks his kids or wife around? Or woman doing that either for that matter? Yet everyone jumps on the cigerettes are bad for you bandwagon.  \n Oops off my soapbox here... Some of these issues really are so petty and are blown out of proportion that it makes me sick.....
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sure there are....\nLet's see... you can get either Lung cancer, Cancer of the Mouth, Cancer of the Larynx, Cancer of the Esophagus, Cancer of the Bladder, Cancer of the Pancreas, Cancer of the Reproductive Systems (and if your a guy... you'll have a slight chance of becoming impetent) and/or other cancers and all you have to pay is probably over $2500 for the increasing rate in which cigarettes/cigars are sold!\nAND if that isnt enough for you, let's add to the fact that smoking can increase your risk of getting coronary heart diseases, emhphysema, chronic bronchitis, acute myeloid leukemia, arteriosclerosis, stroke, and/or other diseases. \nALSO, a decade of your life will be wasted and your body will be in poor health by the time you reach the 40s (assuming you're not already there) because smoking also affects your cardiovascular and respiratory systems.\nPHYSICAL effects of smoking can cause your skin to wrinkle faster than nonsmokers, bad breath, yellowing teeth, and etc. \nThe person above me pretty much described smoking during pregnancy and secondhand smoke so I'm not going to go there...\nSO... my answer would be "yeah... you get tons of shit and all your doing is throwing your life away"\n\nplease note that my answer is sarcastic (for those slow people out there...) but the facts are facts... they're true!\n\nP.S.- Smoking is the number one preventable cause of death out there... and yet it kills more people than suicide, homocide, car accidents, AIDS, alcohol, and illegal drugs COMBINED. Keep that in mind...
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Hey, Sonya, you need more than just a yes or no answer here. So let me give it a try.\n\nFirst, awesome job on quitting, you cut your chances of getting cancer from smoke inhalation and direct exposure to poisons by 70 % at least. Nice going. You can still get cancer, you can absolutely get it from second hand smoke, for those who don't believe that, well, you need to do some reading, I feel sorry for you. So, if you are asking if you have affected your chances the answer is yes, you have. You have less chance now of getting cancer than you did when you were smoking. You smoked for a year and stopped.  A lot of it depends on how much you smoked and for how long. If you weren't a major chain smoker and you quit, you should be fine. Unfortunately there are other kinds of cancer out there, but you shouldn't live your life just trying to avoid cancer types. You should take good care of yourself and enjoy the good things in life while you can. My father is still smoking, he has lung and skin cancer and emphysema. \n\nOn Mary Jane: No, not linked to cancer causing, though used as a treatment for cancer.  MJ is still not good for you though, it impares your judgement and while it has claimed less lives than alcholol and tobacco, it has still claimed it's fair share by those who drive while under the influence. MJ prevents oxygen from getting you your brain and kills brain cells as a direct effect. Your brain will heal some from the effect, but not all the way. So good for you on quitting and don't worry so much about the rest. Enjoy your life!
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Environment is easily the primary cause of lung cancer.  I'm not even aware of any genetic disorders that are associated with lung cancer.\n\nSmoking is the primary cause of lung cancer.  Before smoking was common, lung cancer was exceedingly rare.  Back in the early 1900's (1904 I believe), a doctor in the US found a man with lung cancer, and he wrote to all of his doctor friends to gather them so that they could have a part in this "once in a lifetime" chance to see a lung cancer patient.\n\nI wish I could photograph some of my textbooks to show you the correlation between smoking and lung cancer.  \n\nThe main causes of lung cancer are smoking, asbestos inhalation, and radon inhalation.  Each of these works via a completely different mechanism.  Smoking works by causing mutations in DNA with chemical carcinogens.  Asbestos works by causing excessive proliferation of certain lung cells, which increases the chance of a transcription error.  Radon works by emmitting alpha radiation, which causes DNA mutations by breaking DNA strands.  Radon then half-lifes into polonium, which adheres to the cells in your lungs and continues to emit radiation, causing more damage.  All three of these mechanisms have only become important within the last century.  Smoking was not popular until the 1940's or so, asbestos was not used prior to the 1950-60's or so, and radon accumulation in homes was not a problem before a similar timeframe.\n\nThere is really no contest between environmental and heredity effects on lung cancer.  Before smoking, asbestos, and radon, there was virtually no lung cancer at all.
52095
there are definately addictions from nicotine, which means you crave it and you'll have withdrawls if you stop. bigger concerns are second hand smoke which is more harmful to the people around you than just smoking is to you. there are carcinogens in ciggarettes, which are substances that cause cancer. how much do you really care about the people around you? smoking is also a behavioral thing for some people. especially night time smokers might be in the habit of smoking as a behavioral thing more than anything else. when my dad stopped smoking 11 years ago, he had to replace that action of smoking with something else, and he chose sugar free hard candy. it really helped him through it.