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>>I lost 20 years of healthy life for a wasteful addiction and it started in 1991 when I was 16. Do you mean you smoked for 20 years, or that you lost 20 years
by enraged_camel 11y ago
>>I lost 20 years of healthy life for a wasteful addiction and it started in 1991 when I was 16.
Do you mean you smoked for 20 years, or that you lost 20 years of lifespan due to smoking?
If it's the latter, I remember reading in a medical study that the adverse health effects of smoking are mostly reversed several years after the person stops smoking. :)
- skissane 11y agoMaybe it was the amount of money lost spending on cigarettes all those years? (Not just the money itself, but think of the possible investment returns if it had been invested instead of smoked.) I used to be a reasonably heavy drinker, then I quit more or less cold turkey, didn't drink a drop for over 6 months, and even though I've now gone back to drinking a bit, I'm very careful now to limit my intake to well within the health guidelines (i.e. no more than one or two a night, no more than a couple of nights a week). Not only has this done good things for my health, it's done great things for my finances.
- forgotpwagain 11y agoI seem to recall it being that one's risk of lung cancer due to smoking drops to being very close to a non-smoker's risk after refraining from smoking for 10 years. Other damage is certainly done to the lungs that can cause other issues--emphysema, cardiovascular problems, etc--but the risk from the "scariest" threat out there is greatly diminished.