The first step in preventing lung cancer if you are a smoker is obvious. You kick the butt, for good! Quitting smoking is harder than people realize. Once it has become an addiction, it gets on your nerves, quite literally, when you try to quit. Your hands start shaking, headaches frequent your day, discomfort follows and a ‘scratch you cannot itch’ feeling crops up sometimes. Joining a support group does not mean the quitter is a wimp. In fact people have associated smoking with confidence and power, but that is so not true when that ‘confident and powerful’ person is diagnosed with lung cancer.
As for passive smokers, the only known way to be safe from acquiring lung cancer is to keep away from smokers, if you cannot change them. Then there is the workplace, where cancer-causing chemicals are strewn in places least expected. Knowledge is indeed power and knowing these chemicals, staying away from them to prevent accidental inhalation, is key to avoiding the dreaded disease.
As for passive smokers, the only known way to be safe from acquiring lung cancer is to keep away from smokers, if you cannot change them. Then there is the workplace, where cancer-causing chemicals are strewn in places least expected. Knowledge is indeed power and knowing these chemicals, staying away from them to prevent accidental inhalation, is key to avoiding the dreaded disease.
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