Every 10 minutes the cancer patient continues to smoke

Almost one in ten of those who managed to survive cancer continue to smoke as US researchers found. However, only slightly more than 40% of smokers say they plan in the future put an end to a bad habit.

smoking after cancer

Smoking is one of the principal a plurality of risk factors of cancer diseases, but for some Cigarette smokers are more important than their own lives. Scientists from American Cancer Community published in the journal Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention results of a study involving 2 938 patients who had lived for 9 years from the date of diagnosis.

It was found that 9 of them as much as 3% continue to smoke cancer treatment . A quantity of 83% of the daily smokers, consuming on average 14 7 cigarettes per day. The largest number of smokers appeared in patients survivors of bladder cancer (17, 2%) and light (14, 9%). Both of these diseases associated with smoking and lung tumors in 93% of cases are caused by tobacco.

It is known that smoking dramatically reduces the effectiveness of the treatment significantly increases the likelihood of relapse and shortens survival. Even with end-stage lung cancer, when the hope of salvation gone, quitting smoking doubles the one the length of time that was left in the patient. So continue to smoke cancer patients deliberately kill themselves, despite the fact that the doctor inform them of the need to give up cigarettes.

Of those who continue to smoke, only 46, 6% expressed the desire to someday in the future give up smoking . 10, 1% do not intend to do so, and 43, 3% have not yet undecided. More often after treatment cancer   continue to smoke young women with little education, low income, abuse alcohol. (READ MORE)

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