What age do you catch cancer if you stop at a certain time?!


Question: What age do you catch cancer if you stop at a certain time?
Hello...I'm 18 and I smoke cigarettes...I've been smoking them for 2 years...I'm scared cause my whole life is in front of me...I'm quiting after this last box but I wanted to know what age will I catch it if I stop now...it was a rumor going around saying "the people who stops catch it faster the people who continue catch it later on in the old life" I wanna go to college for Computer Technolgy that's money! I'm just really scared I should've have never picked one up in the first place...if I do catch it what can I do to get rid of it? Please answer asap...

Answers:

The rumour you heard is nonsense.

the risk factor for smoking related lung cancer.

By quitting now, after only two years of smoking, you'll ensure that before long your risk of developing lung cancer later in life will have returned to pretty much that of a lifelong non-smoker (as long as you don't resume smoking).

Lung cancer is rarely diagnosed in people younger than 40, but after 40 lung cancer rates rise sharply and peak between 75-84 years

Anyone who gives up smoking at any age, even a lifelong smoker aged 60, reduces their chances of developing lung cancer dramatically. The younger they give up, the greater the reduction in risk.

Cancer Research UK says:

'A lifelong male smoker has a cumulative risk of 15.9% for developing lung cancer by age 75. For men who cease smoking at ages 60, 50, 40 and 30 years, their cumulative risk of dying from lung cancer falls to 9.9%, 6.0%, 3.0% and 1.7% respectively .



You don't catch cancer like you catch a cold. There is no way for you or anyone to know if or when you might Develop a cancer. Now smoking , that has been proven to increase you chances that you MIGHT one day develop a cancer. For anyone who develops cancer, there is no guarantee of survival.

The ony way you can lessen the chances is to stop. 2 years isnt that long. Stop now and you could be fine. don't worry so much ok. Your still young. Just stop and go one with your life.



First, lung cancer isn't something you "catch." It's something you get. Some people smoke for decades and never get lung cancer. Some people never smoke or haven't smoked in years and still get it. There's just no way to know. There is no cure for cancer, but there are treatments, like chemo and radiation.



Pretty sure you can't "catch cancer".




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