Stop Smoking Now

Smoking is responsible for producing a number of fatal disorders and diseases. Smoking plays a key role in increasing the likelihood of a number of diseases that includes lung cancer, prostate cancer, breast cancer, mental illness, and different heart related diseases. Smoking is also involves in discoloring the skin and teeth.

There is an increase in the risk of breast cancer due to over smoking. It has been investigated that women who start smoking in teens and those who have smoked for more than 20 years, both have an increased risk of breast cancer as compared to the women who have smoked almost 100 cigarettes in their life time. Women who do not smoke and married earlier almost before 17 years, to the smokers have a great risk of breast cancer. Those women who smoke and also whose immediate relatives (female) have a diagnosis of breast cancer are at increased risk of breast cancer. Women having breast cancer and continue to smoke are at higher risk of developing aggressive form of disease that is known as hormone receptor negative. Smoking is not responsible for causing the breast cancer but somehow it increases the risk of breast cancer and difficult to treat.

Smoking is injurious to health and is responsible for creating a number of disorders and disease in the body like lung cancer, heart attack, mental illness, and increasing the risk of prostate cancer. Tobacco addiction or cigarette smoking is an important risk factor that is involved in causing lung cancer. In fact the smoke of cigarette contains a large number of harmful chemicals that have been proven carcinogens.

Cigarette smoking increases the likelihood of having lung cancer and other illnesses that are related to smoking. Research has shown that more than half percentage of the individuals who have lung cancer, smoke or have smoked.
The relative risk of having lung cancer drops in the smokers twice than the non smokers after the cessation n of 20 years, but the relative risk remains elevated. Relative risk explains the risk when we compare a group of people who smoke to those who never smoked. The males who are smokers have 23 times more chances of having lung cancer than those who have never ever smoked. The relative risk of having lung cancer to the females is about 13 times more than those who never smoked. So the research has shown the clear cut link of lung cancer and cigarette smoking.

Prostate cancer is a type of cancer that basically affects prostate gland. Prostate gland is a gland that is a part of male reproductive system. When one cell is affected, then this cancer spread from the prostate gland to the other parts of the body like bones and lymph nodes. Prostate cancer is associated with the different problems including erectile dysfunction, sexual intercourse, pain and difficulty during urination. Researchers have shown that there is a link between the smoking and prostate glands. Although smoking is not responsible in causing prostate cancer yet it is involved in making the conditions worse. Furthermore, smoking is also responsible in magnifying the side effects of the cancer treatments such as gastrointestinal disorders and diarrhea.

When an individual having prostate cancer smokes, it gives a fertile environment for these cancerous cells to grow, multiply, and spread rapidly in the body. Smoking is involved in affecting the genes and causing mutation. Smoking is basically a source of cadmium that is basically a metal that reacts with the zinc in prostate gland and causes cancer. Smoking is also involved in creating an imbalance in the level of hormone. Smoking increases the androgen level and making the condition worse for the individual.