Stop Smoking to Prevent Cancer
The major cause of primary carcinoma of the lung or lung cancer is smoking. Tobacco also is solely responsible for cancer of the bladder, pancreas and kidney. Both men and women are equally vulnerable to lung cancer. There are around 32% of men and 25% women who die from cancer every year. Around 90% per cent of lung cancer patients are cigarette smokers. Those men who smoke one packet of cigarettes a day increase their risks of lung cancer by around 10 per cent compared to those who do not smoke. The signs of lung cancer involve chronic cough, persistent cough, chest pain, coughing of blood, an increase in mucous production, noisy breathing or wheezing, shortness of breath, bronchitis, hoarseness, pneumonia weight loss and loss of appetite. If you are a smoker or have been a smoker for many years you have a high risk of cancer however you can also suffer some other associated lung problems. So the longer you smoke the greater risk you have of lung cancer.
Once you stop smoking you greatly minimize the risk of not only lung cancer but also other associated smoking related diseases like heart stroke, emphysema and chronic bronchitis. The development of lung cancer takes a number of years and the disease peaks at around the age of 55 to 65 years of age. There are changes in the lung the moment you are exposed to carcinogenic chemicals. Soon after exposure to smoking begins, there are a few abnormal cells that may appear in the lining of the bronchi that are the main breathing tubes in the human body. When increased exposure to these substances there are more abnormal cells that appear and some become cancerous and they form tumors. When you stop smoking the abnormal cells are replaced by the normal cells and your risk levels of getting lung cancer falls drastically.