It is never clear when any given patient will be ready to act on a physician’s advice; nonetheless, the diagnosis of lung cancer may present the most “teachable moment” a physician and patient will have and when advice to quit smoking may be most readily heard.
When people quit smoking, they breathe better and cough less.
Every cigarette smoked has more than 4,000 chemicals. These same chemicals are found in car exhaust, nail polish, and window cleaner.
Lungs, especially diseased lungs, do better when they are not exposed to nicotine, tar, and carbon monoxide.
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