Long term effects of smoking

Want to know about the long term health effects of smoking? Learn the terrible truth about the irreversible effects of smoking in this report.

It's a well known fact that smoking increases the risk of cancer, it's also a fact that giving up smoking will reduce the risk of cancer over time.

But what about the damage that smoking does, that can never be undone, even after giving up. The most severe long term effect of smoking is Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).

This causes many deaths to smokers every year (though not as much as cancer or cardiovascular disease). It does happen to be one of the slowest deaths in that it's a slowly deteriorating condition.

The two most common types of COPD are emphysema and Chronic bronchitis.

Emphysema

Breathlessness caused by damage to the air sacs (alveoli). The chemicals in cigarettes stick to the air sacks in the lungs making them less able to absorb the oxygen.

Chronic bronchitis

Smoking causes an increase in the amount of mucus produced. This causes irritation and swelling to the respiratory passages.

How do you tell if you've got chronic bronchitis?

Lots of Coughing

Shortness of breath

Thick sputum, difficult to cough up

These are possible signs but only a doctor can tell for sure.

What can you do if you have Chronic bronchitis?

Unfortunately the damage is permanent but there are many things you can do to limit any further damage.

Exercise

Quit smoking - it's never to late (see end of article for help in giving up smoking)

Get any infections in the respiratory channel treated

Avoid passive smoking - easier now with the public smoking ban

What should you do if you don't have Chronic bronchitis but still smoke?

Stop smoking to reduce the effects (COPD occurs in everybody eventually but smoking greatly speeds it up).

How do you stop smoking?

There are many different ways but most of them are very hard.

Is there an easy way to quit smoking?
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