Monday, August 16, 2010

How long does it take to develop lung cancer from smoking


How long does it take to develop lung cancer from smoking?

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There are so many variables. Tendency, genetically for cancer, the amount you smoke, what brands (the higher the tar level the higher the chance) Eventually all people that smoke will develop lung disease, COPD, emphysema, chronic bronchitis, asthma and of course cancer. Best not to even start, but if you are a smoker, as am I then quiting is the best hope, lungs respond very quickly and heal nicely, but quiting is so so so difficult. I have been trying to quit for 3 years, but always seem to fail after a short period of time. I truly wish I had never started. Good luck
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ten minutes to 40 years depending upon about 10,000 different things. Just in case consider this - 9 - Try Vitamin C therapy. A few years ago a cancer specialist came out with a paper that said the best cancer/infection fighter found to date was Interferon. At the time it was $15,000 a gram. The paper also said that Interferon was a by-product of the natural breakdown of Vitamin C in your body. Shortly after that the FDA tried to make Vitamin C by prescription only. Guess why? 33 The FDA has the RDA for Vitamin C set at 64 mg a day, just enough to ward off scurvy. Linus Pauling, who got a Nobel Prize for his work with Vitamin C and a second Nobel Prize for Organic Chemistry, said that 1000 mg a day should be the minimum and 2000 mg a day if you are sick or smoke. He played tennis almost daily until the day he died at 96. Personally, I got sick twice a year for 2 weeks at a time, for more than 20 years, with something to this day the doctors have no idea what it was, but for a week in the middle of those 2 weeks I was flat on my back. I started Vitamin C therapy once I gave up on the doctors. 34 I took enough to be asymptomatic for those 2 weeks. Too much and I got diarrhea and too little and I got sick. Within a narrow range, and it followed a bell curve over those 2 weeks, I was not sick. (If you find this useful, copy it and give it to a friend. Somebody got to Yahoo and they delete this as soon as they find it) At the height I was taking 40,000 mg a day and 300,000 over the 2 weeks. After 2 years of that I have not been sick since รข€“ more than 15 years. Vitamin C acts as a natural diuretic so you need to drink a lot of water and watch your body in total, but my kidneys did not dissolve as the doctors predicted, or get massive kidney stones as other predicted. 35 I did not dissolve my bones as some predicted or completely calcify my joints as others predicted. I had no side effects at all. It might be something to consider.
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There's no definitive timeline or guarantee that you will get lung cancer from smoking. True, smoking is a definite cause of lung cancer, and is an AVOIDABLE risk, so don't take chances and just stay the h*ll away from that disgusting stuff!




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