To think that giving up smoking can actually CAUSE cancer

when I was quitting I joined a forum and on there was a man who was diarying his quit journey. A few months after quitting he was diagnosed with lung cancer. I had heard you theory before but thought that the link was perhaps more simple. That those who quit after many years smoking may do so because they already sense they are I'll subconsciously and this leads them to quit - with an inevitable diagnosis shortly after. The cancer must already be there to get a diagnosis so soon after quitting. I think, anyway.

yes this is not an argument to encourage smoking - it is always far healthier not to start! but once someone has been smoking for a number of years we do need to look into if giving up actually then encourages cancer cell growth! too many people die suddenly once they have given up and it needs looking into

Is anyone still on here? I was just reading through evreyones messages. As my mum was diagnosed in December last year with small cell lung cancer that is very aggressive. She stopped smoking for 4years before diagnosis. It does make me think. As when she got diagnosed I stopped smoking myself now I’m thinking what if it was stopping that caused it..

Absolute bloody tosh. Are u sponsored by Imperial Tobacco?

I've never smoked in my life through choice.
Cigarettes have always turned my stomach.
I've never been a big drinker. It just doesn't interest me.
However my thoughts are "Youve got to die of something". Therefore you might as well enjoy your vices. If the grin reaper doesn't get you one way. He'll get you another way.

It really isn’t. Even the doctors told us that stopping smoking for the first few months after is a big shock to
Your body.

How daft are people! Smoking causes lung cancer and many other illnesses including throat and mouth cancers.
Many smokers are in denial because of their addiction but it is irrefutable.
People will have had cancer growing inside for ages. It rarely happens overnight.

1) This was a bizarrely fuckwitted thread
2) It’s a zombie
Please stop and let it return to the undead

Actually it did kinda happen just over night it’s a fast growing cancer that can kill within 2 months without treatment. So after stopping smoking your suppose to be such less risk and more healthy how can someone get such an aggressive cancer st the age of just 48

Holy fuck you really can’t cure stupid

I know this is a zombie thread but I wanted to comment as there is some truth in what the OP said. Whatever the reasons may be, it is more common to be diagnosed with lung cancer after giving up. But the way to combat it is not to carry on smoking, but just to not quit “cold turkey”. Anyone who is a heavy smoker should look to reduce their smoking over a period of time before finally giving up. Same as a heavy drinker would. When you think of all the crap that cigarettes are full off, of course stopping suddenly is going to be a shock to the system. And yes increasingly research is highlighting that this is a problem.

I’m not stupid in th slightest Thankyou. I was just saying what the doctors have been saying.

The smoking has already caused the damage and the illness have shown up after the cessation

I have a relative who was diagnosed with a different type of cancer recently. Although he had only started having any symptoms (minor, but the sort they say you should get checked out) in the few weeks before the first appointment, the specialist said the cancer might have been growing slowly for 6 or 7 years! I can't be certain lung cancer behaves in the same way, but it does sound as if maybe anyone who is diagnosed quite a short time after giving up smoking might have had it for quite some time before they gave up. I wonder if the tell-tale sign that made them seek advice was that the "smoker's cough" didn't disappear after stopping smoking!

flissmumsnet having read some of the rubbish being spouted on this thread I don't think any of us are in any doubt as to the absence of medical training, expertise or indeed basic common sense of some of the posters and their amazing cancer theories. but thanks anyway.

look, if you smoke for 45 years, give up and die of cancer 4 months later I'm pretty sure the cancer developed whilst the smoking was still going on and your FIL just gave up too late after smoking too long 5inthebed

^^This.

There's some evidence to suggest that vaping may be highly carcinogenic as well, so giving up smoking may be not be as good for you if you vape heavily afterwards.