benefits of quitting
Benefits of quitting after a cancer diagnosis:
- Longer life expectancy
- Increased chance of successful treatment
- Less serious side effects from treatment
- Surgery
- Chemotherapy
- Radiation therapy
- Faster recovery time after treatment
- Lower risk of developing other cancers
- Lower risk of infection
- Better quality of life
Continuing to smoke after cancer diagnosis may cause:
- Worse side effects from surgery
- The heart
- Lungs
- Slower recovery
- Worse side effects from chemotherapy.
- Infection
- Fatigue
- Weight loss
- Worse side effects from radiation therapy
- Mouth sores
- Loss of taste
- Bone and soft tissue problems
- Increased chance of the cancer coming back