• Smoking and Prostate Cancer

  Filed under Smoking Cessation
  Jul 26
  In news that chalks up yet another reason you should immediately quit smoking if you still indulge in the habit, there is a lot of evidence that prostate cancer, one of the most common cancers in men, is a lot more agressive in smokers vs. non smokers.

  This really isn’t surprising when you consider that smoking is actually linked to several different types of cancers, and continuing to partake in the habit only worsens cancerous cell growth.  What continues to amaze a lot of people, and doctors is that, a lot of people still continue to smoke after diagnosed with cancer.

  It’s like giving the cancer a helping hand at taking over your body because it helps to kill healthy cells and spawn even more unhealthy, rapidly dividing cells.  Cancer is basically bad, mutated cells that turn on you and rapidly divide and multiply, taking over the healthy cells and, if left unchecked or untreated, ultimately lead to death.

  Cigarette smoking is a top notch carcinogen. It is one of the worst cancer causing agents out there, and the ironic part is that we choose to either do it or not do it to ourselves.

  Prostate cancer is just one of the cancers that is aggravated, or even partially caused by, cigarette smoking.  Men who are diagnosed with prostate cancer who are smokers are much more statistically likely to die or to have a much more agressive form of the cancer than men who are diagnosed that are non smokers.

  Smoking can definitely advance the cancer faster, and it can also make it into a much more agressive form of cancer, that divides and multiplies even more rapidly than if it did not have the help of the carinogenic by-products produced by cigarette smoke with stay in the blood stream.

  This is yet another reason to quit smoking if you haven’t already and you are a smoker.  There are some excellent herbal smoking cessation products out there that can help you get through the most trying stages of quitting for good.

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