There has been a lot written about the side effects of quitting smoking. These side effects come about because when you quit smoking, your body goes through a process of detoxification. It is looking to get rid of all the poisons that you have been putting into your body from cigarette smoke for all your smoking years.
As you read through this article you will find out the side effects when you decide to quit smoking. But they are meaningless unless you have something to compare it to. That is always what we do with information. We compare it to other things that we know or learn. And in that comparison we then make decisions on what to do. So I’ve included some important additional information for comparison.
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Anyone who has ever smoked has tried to quit at some time or another. When you try to quit, you do have some options. You can try nicotine replacement therapy, inhalers, and even going cold turkey. Here we will talk about each method separately.
Nicotine Replacement Therapy
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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.
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