Why is it when you quit smoking you get cancer or worse?

Why is it when you quit smoking you get cancer or worse?But people like George Burns smoked all the way up to 100yrs old. Should I quit now and take my chances or just keep smoking?

Smoker for 30yrs.

byderule
shut up ,you freak
reported

i just gave up smoking after 40 years
havent stopped coughing since

Manny D
because you were smoking in the first place.

the effects don't stop after 30years of it!

but the benefits of stopping are still there i'm sure u know the things: taste, finance, fitness, after 10 years its almost like you never smoked at all... & all that

so i say yes, take your chances, its the only choice you've got, but Better them by quitting.

Kimberly
Being a RRT, the benefits of quitting smoking are never to early. While the damage is done to your lungs already, you can only prevent further damage by quitting now. You have to understand that cancer is pre-determined, so it is not that when you quit smoking you will get cancer, and it is not the smoking that gave you cancer it's the carcinogins in the tabacco. Some of us are just more likely to end up with cancer than others, but you can only increase your chances of not developing it, by stopping today.

Recently I had a patient who never smoked a day in her life and ended up with stage 4 lung cancer and died, so as you can see it's the chance you take. Either you will continue to smoke and if you end up with cancer or something worse you can blame it on the cigarettes, or you can stop now and say hey I have done everything I can do to prevent it...and be proud to say you quit the habit!

Best of Luck to you,
Kimberly, RRT

craigtamborella
Quitting doesn't make you get cancer worse, its the smoking that does it. It is just probably coincidence that it seems to happen that way. The cancer was already there and quite active by the time a lot of people decide to quit.

fireflame39
I say it depends on what you are smoking. George Burns smoked a domestic cigar known as El Producto. Also, he was working until 1994 which probably also helped with his longetivity that he was out and about. So you may want to switch to cigars or take your chances and quit smoking. My grandmother quit on and off, finally stopping in 1982, and she's going to be 88 this year.

I feel it is a roll of the dice, depending on how your body is and how you were before you started to smoke.

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