extreme pain is greater if they continue to smoke

More bad news for those smokers who have been diagnosed with cancer is that not only do they have a greater likelihood of death but they also have a greater likelihood of a very painful death. Research done in Texas has shown that those people who carried on smoking after being diagnosed with cancer reported significantly higher levels of pain than those people who never smoked or those who quit immediately.

Sometimes deluded cigarettes addicts feel that since they have already have cancer they might as well continue smoking because the damage has been done already but this research shows that by quitting smoking immediately they can save themselves the whole lot of pain and anguish whether they live or die. The research was not just done on patients suffering from lung cancer but from a whole range of different cancers and at the cancer stages I-IV.

The research which was led by Professor Lori Bastian from the Durham VA Medical Center and also Duke University should be used by doctors to encourage cancer patients to quit smoking immediately. By telling cancer patients that the likelihood of him or her suffering from extreme pain is greater if they continue to smoke should be a huge incentive to throw away the cigarettes immediately.

Professor Bastian also commented that "the major strength of this study" was that it was relevant for all types of cancer and for all stages therefore counteracting the obvious argument which would be put forward by reluctant quitters that this research wouldn't be relevant for them.

This study which was published in the medical journal Pain comes on top of the other research which shows that people who continue to smoke when diagnosed with cancer do not respond as well to the treatment and have a poorer quality of life.

At Ukmedix News we find it amazing that some people actually find it within themselves to carry on smoking once they have been diagnosed with cancer. It has been proven that smoking increases the chances of every single type of cancer yet some people choose to smoke rather than to live.  If that doesn't show the power of a nicotine addiction then nothing does!