Smokers or Doctors Let me ask you a question about Smoking Please?!
Question: Smokers or Doctors Let me ask you a question about Smoking Please?
anyways, i went to my doctor and she listened to my lungs and gave me a spirometer test. she said i was ok but without a MRI couldn't gaurentee anything.
so my question is most likely im fine right? i mean i hope iv only sustained minor repairable damage. nothing serious like emphysema. i dont smoke anymore.
Answers:
You have increased the chance of getting lung cancer and emphysema. Six months at three a day is a very small increase, so small that we can't measure it effectively. But if you keep going for a few years, then the increased risk is real and measureable.
Getting an MRI won't tell you anything about cancer. If you smoke for another 10 years and in 20 years you get a strange cough the MRI can tell you if you have cancer. The MRI can't tell you now if you might get cancer.
I've smoked for 52 years without any ill effects. Don't worry about it, you'll be OK.
your fine dude.
depends on what odds your life is worth. 50%? 60% 80%.