Do you know anyone with a health illness due to smoking?

Hi friend! I am not a smoker but I know someone who did and have quit it years ago. He now suffer from stroke, heart attack and high blood pressure for more than 10 years. Smoking is dangerous. We might say that there are many other causes to serous disease but I tell you that smoking is one of it. So stop smoking even if it is hard and difficult to do so. Don't be like others when the suffer from it they start complaining about their lives say that life is unfair and forget about what they have done to their lives that makes them suffer that way.

Both me and my Sister have asthma because my Mom smoked when she was pregnant with us, as well as smoking inside her house while we were infants. My older sister had it much worse then me, and the both of us became really allergic to all sorts of animals and plants because of it. But still, both me and my sister started smoking in our youth, because we had always been around it, and it wasn't tough to steal them from my Mom. With me, I've still been a bit of an addict, but now I can't keep going with them, because now everytime I get back into smoking for only a week or two, I end up getting really bad breathing problems, where it's tough to breathe at all, and my medication that I have to take every day doesn't help enough. The worst it's gotten to has been giving me bacterial pneumonia, and who knows where it'll go in the future, but it'll probably be even worse. I gotta stay away from them, or else my chances of things like lung cancer or emphasyma just go through the roof. Smoking really isn't a good thing.

My mum has just recently been told that if she doesn't Stop smoking she will be lucky if she lives a year and if she gives up now she would be lucky to live 2years... she has two large holes in her lungs from smoking. She's been smoking since she was a teenager and now in her late 50's. She was diagnosed with chronic bronchitis 30 years ago and now has emphysema. She struggles to breath and catch her breath. She has a bad lasting cough, which she has had for as long as I can remember. If she laughs she starts coughing and struggles to breath. I used to smoke in my teens and it was only because my family did and as I got older it became more of a social thing and then when I found out I was pregnant at 21 I went cold turkey and gave up completely... I'm glade I did! I don't see allot of people smoking as I used too nowadays.. places have tried to ban it and that helps I think. I know its a hard habit to kick, but don't shorten your life by doing it. Smoking has NO benefits except for killing you.. its so sad really!

I do know many people that are suffering from smoking with lung cancer, emphysema, pleursey etc. I myself have emphysema (not sure if I spelled it right or not either) and asthma. I have tried many times to quit but I have not had any luck. I am trying chantix now. I agree that it is a disgusting habit and a costly one health wise and money wise too. Good luck.

I smoke. I already quit. Lots of times. There was a time when I quitfor a little over a year. I'm not proud of it but I'm now I'm back to smoking. It's so hard huh? I should stop. We all should stop. It's bad for us and bad for our loved ones.

My father is a smoker,e never quit ever since he started trying it.He has lung problem but this does not bother him, even he was rushed to the hospital several times because of it. Like my father,I myself is also a smoker.I've started smoking since I was a 1st year high school.I consumed 2 packs a day.In fact I'm asthmatic but and was rushed to the hospital often times because of my lung problem but I can't really stop smoking even I tried to do that.I've try a lot of medicine that could help me to stop it but none of those worked. I'm still hoping to quit smoking....

I can honestly say that I've never met anyone with health problems solely due to smoking. I have smoked for over forty years. While I appreciate the risks of smoking, I feel it is being unfairly singled out as a harmful habit without any proven facts. It is easy to say smoking causes cancer - but how do we know that when we don't know the cause or the cure! Yes I have quit - well almost! It is a disgusting, smelly, costly habit but we enjoy it. Why? Now THAT is the unknown part!

I don't smoke. And yes I know one person who recently got health problem due to his long time smoking habit. He having some infection in stomach because of the smoking. It is not the big problem but it could be. He already left the smoking after that.

I never smoke neither does my husband, fortunately. But my elder brother has been a smoker for the past thirty two years because my father used to be a chain smoker when my elder brother was in his teens. He just followed what my father did. Right now, my father was able to quit smoking successfully since more than twenty years ago. But my brother is still a smoker and was hospitalized a few years ago due to emphysema. He is said to have a lingering cough and other respiratory illness.