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Started by Anonymous at 04-18-2009 6:58 PM. Topic has 1 replies.
  
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 04-18-2009, 6:58 PM
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Anonymous
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Vitamin Substitution For Smokers and other Tobacco Users
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I know smoking strips the body of vitamin C and there is some connection between Vitamin B3 and nicotene, has anyone looked into vitamin therapy for smokers? I have learnt that the smoking of herbs predates brewing and tea making, there must be some adaptation to the habit, but perhaps something is either in the additives, or lacking in our general diet to amplify the health risk. Although smoing has not incresed as a proportion of the popolation since the 1930s cancer is 10X higher, other factors are at work.
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04-29-2009, 8:45 AM
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admin
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Re: Vitamin Substitution For Smokers and other Tobacco Users
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This is outside our area of expertise since though we applaud any efforts to reduce the effects of continued smoking, we are more focused on means of switching people to safer forms of nicotine use such as smokeless tobacco or electronic cigarettes.
That being said I have heard of vitamin supplements suggested for smokers. You might want to check with your doctor; they should know what vitamins smoking depletes and should be able to make some suggestions. You might have to suffer through a just quit smoking lecture but if your doctor truly cares about your welfare they should still answer your question.
As to the lung cancer rates, you have to consider that they lag after smoking levels since the longer you smoke the more likely it is that contract lung cancer. Typically lung cancer takes decades after smoking initiation to appear (30 years or more) so even if today everyone quit you would have continued high rates for some time. There is no doubt at all that most lung cancer can be traced to smoking. End message is that though vitamin supplements might allay some effects of smoking, it won't stave off lung cancer, and smoking remains the surest way of getting lung cancer.
The other thing to keep in mind is that as some diseases are beaten others remain so since we are no longer dying of the things we used to, other diseases become more common. We are fortunate to have high cancer rates because it indicates that we are living longer, that more children and women are surviving childbirth, that our working conditions are safer, that fewer of us are dying from food poisoning, from wars etc....You have to die of something,
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