Social smoker and my future health

trunksshortsman · 2019-11-07T23:12:10+00:00

Yes smoking even 1 cigarette might do a little damage in your future Health depends on your genes

FearGarbhArMait · 2019-11-07T23:21:22+00:00

Realistically, if you stop doing what is damaging your body, rest and eat you recover quite well.

vondoom900 · 2019-11-07T23:29:18+00:00

You barely fucking smoke. You're in the position where you can recovery in a few months; see the infographs on recovery.

5 years smoking 10 a day is when you're basically committed to death related smoking. Even then I think if you worked your ass off you could get back what you lost.

Hardcore smokers get COPD eventually in pre stage.

SeasonedRP · 2019-11-07T23:35:25+00:00

Yes, it can, but the absolute risk will be quite low if you stop now. There is research about the health benefits of quitting smoking, and even long time heavy smokers benefit from quitting.

Massap24 · 2019-11-07T23:37:11+00:00

Lol just quit and move on no point in worrying about what hasn’t happened. If you get cancer when your in your 50s are you going to think “damn if only I didn’t smoke 30 years ago”. You don’t know until you know, People get sick/cancer for a million different reasons how likely is mostly gene dependent.

Edit: example had a great aunt that lived to be 90 smoked everyday at least a pack. Had a cousin that never smoke or drank his entire life died from pancreatic cancer at 53. All you can do is try to be as healthy as possible.

elf_knife_love · 2019-11-08T00:04:27+00:00

Medical science has not reached a point where it can actually answer this question.

Anecdotal evidence suggests that yes and biology suggests that yes.

The only life-long effects of smoking are:

DNA damage, both genetic and structural (can be repaired, not that great, mainly in the lung/heart where it's not that relevant to being with due to a host of reasons)
Lifestyle issues (e.g. inhibits your ability to exercise, you can recover from it in < 10 days)
Hard to eliminate substances (e.g. heavy metals) embedding themselves in your various tissues (usually your body stores them in fat cells)... this sounds bad, and is bad, but smoking a pack a day is not necessarily worst than eating a can of minced tuna a day in this regard.

But, overall, smoking makes you feel like shit if you don't do it regularly and becomes impossible to escape if you do do it regularly, so you should still quit, but for "higher level" causes, not necessarily for the health benefits. Realistically speaking smoking 1 cigarette a day doesn't matter that much, but nobody smokes just one cigarette a day in the long run.

Title	Social smoker and my future health
Author	imadruid
Upvotes	0
Comments	6
Date	November 7, 2019 11:03 PM UTC (6 years ago)
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