I already have lung cancer, why should I bother quitting?

I already have lung cancer, why should I bother quitting?

Linda Hyder Ferry (Associate Professor, Preventive Medicine and Family Medicine, Loma Linda University School of Medicine) gives expert video advice on: Why should I quit smoking?; What are the health benefits of quitting smoking?; What are the immediate health benefits of quitting smoking? and more...

Lung cancer is the most common cancer that a smoker will encounter in their life time, and certain types - the most common type of lung cancer is directly caused by smoking. If you have cancer and you're working with Oncologist, a cancer specialist, to try and beat this cancer, either with radiation therapy, chemo therapy or surgery, I would encourage you to ask their opinion about whether quitting smoking would not increase your risk of 1) Surviving surgery - which we know it does. 2) Having Better effective chemo therapy. 3) Having less complications from radiation, if you're going to have that treatment. 4) In addition, continuing to have exposure to new carcinogens means that even though you may live to survive this treatment and not have this lethal cancer, that does not mean you may not be exposed to a second cancer later on. So, I would really encourage you to give yourself the best chance you can to beat this cancer, to quit smoking and get professional help to do so. It does not have to be that painful to quit smoking.