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friends wife smoked for 40 years!
I'm curious about something. If a person has been a smoker since they've been 12 years old, what long term effects would it have on the person? I'm asking because my friends wife is 54 and has been smoking since she was 12. She smokes about 2 packs a day. I think he is worried about her health. I already know that it has prematurely aged her from the outside. She has a very wrinkled face and horrible black and yellow stained teeth. Also does anyone have any solutions as to how she could quit? I hear it's very hard but possible.
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My dad has tired quitting millions of times. For him, it just hasn't worked. I guess it just depends on who you are and how strong you are. My dad doesn't really want to quit that bad, so he doesn't try very hard.
She can try patches or noccotine gum or something like that. Other times you don't even need stuff like that. My aunt quit smoking by chewing regular gum and sucking on peppermint things. I guess it just depends on what your personal situation is.
Cancer is pretty much the biggest long term thing.
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she could get cancer in her lungs and possibly die !! nicotine smoking patches and their gum can be used to help her quit . my grandma had this problem and she gave my grandpa second hand smoking ! but she had a surgery and she ahs stopped, but also put on a lot of pounds because she quit . if your friends' wife quits then make sure she still eats properly and exercises .
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Let's do some math! Each cigerette takes seven minutes off your life. I think there's 30 cigerettes in a pack, so that's 60 cigerettes a day. Which is an average of 1800 cigerettes a month, which is 21600 a year. She's been smoking for 42 years, which is an average total of 907,200 ciggerettes. If each smoke takes seven minutes off your life, that's 6,350,400 minutes, which is 105,840 hours, which is 4410 days, which is 12.25 years. Maybe she's a person who can understand math better than people just telling her to quit. Eh, it's something to try.
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well she has a huge chance of getting cancer and almost any other disease because her immune system is greatly weakened. also there is a good chance of premature death or any of the diseases that dont ussually hit people till later in life
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Well the effects of smoking are very profound. It not only affects everything it comes in contact with (as in increasing the risk of cancer in the mouth, lungs etc etc) but also has been correlated with increased cancer risk in other areas too. My father used to work for the World Health Organisation and I had the "pleasure" or reading many of the studies done on smokers... not a pretty picture. Everything you mentioned yourself holds, but its mainly surface stuff. The real harm comes from risk of cancer, strokes and heart disease.
Now all that being said, I used to be a smoker. Quitting was the hardest thing I have ever done. There is no formula to it. Some people respond well to those patches and gum (my mother quit that way), but for me it was simply stopping. I didnt sleep for a week, my hands were shaking, I had all the symptoms of a freakin junkie. It took about 2 months of hell to control the craving (3 years later it still comes back from time to time).
Another thing to remember is that the later you quit the less you will get out of it. One study showed that if you quit no later than the age of 31 or 32, you would not suffer any increased chance of disease (compared to a non smoker). Any later and it would still (statistically) cut a few years off your life. Make no mistake... its ALWAYS a good idea to quit. Just the earlier you do it (after your early 30s), the better it is.
Also... 2 packs a day is a hell of a lot. She would be in the very high risk group. If I were you I would encourage her to see a doctor and try some of the anit smoking products that he would recommend. The sooner the better. Good luck
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she's probably not healthy. i've seen this smoking commercial & they take someones aora, can't spell, & show whats in it after a smoker at age 32 & it was so gross. i think that alone will stop a smoker. it probably is hard to quit, but since it's been so long, it's not healthy. here's a website-
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