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When you or your loved one was diagnosed with lung cancer which describes your/ their experience of smoking?
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Total shock as his parents had never smoked, he had never smoked and I was the same.
My cancer is Carcinoid, therefore not linked to smoking at all.
My husband was diagnosed with SCLC a few months ago and he has never smoked in his life and neither have I - total devastation is how we felt but have got to make the most of life now x
I was diagnosed August 24th, 2016 with NSCLC. I am 52 years old and smoked as a young adult. I quit for many years than became a closet smoker only having one every few months if I was stressed . I never smoked a lot.
I am currently taking Iressa and will have a CT SCAN this month o see if there is any reduction in the tumor.
I will also have my first PET scan in November as well. I actually feel prety good most off the time . I use a shampoo I got at Target called CLEAR. I used all the other expensive shampoos and none of them worked. Within 3 days all of my dry spots on my scalp were gone and no more itching.
I also have the acne rash and was given tetracycline oral pills for it.
I got official cream at My local dispensary called Mary Jane beauty cream that contains cannabis oil and within the second day of using it my dryness and acne started clearing up. Its completely gone and my face is cleared up.
I smoked for 32 years. I stopped completely in excess of 15 years ago. I thought rather smugly that I had ‘got away with it’ It was a shock on the 25th April 2018 that I had lung cancer . I have on the 4th July had my left lung I removed. Now waiting for chemo.
My husband had stopped smoking for over 20 years when he was diagnosed with NSCSCLC three years ago. At the time he stopped, the current thinking was that if you stopped by the time you were 40 you were unlikely to suffer long-term effects (cancer of the lung from smoking). He was given 6months to a year, had two courses of chemo and then two years ago started Pembrolizumab. The tumour shrunk swiftly and has not increased in size since, despite having to stop the immunotherapy nine months ago because of severe adverse skin reactions. He copes well, plays golf once or twice a week and remains positive
Lol. Minor point of grammar. Should be, ‘when you or your loved one WERE diagnosed’. Not was. My cancer was not caused by smoking, but I was a smoker. Not now though. I stopped straight away because so many people are trying to save my lifesnd I feel it would be direspectful to them to carry on.
