I am a 55 yr. old female in pretty good health, but i smoke 2 pks aday. i have lost my mother, father and 3mos. ago to lung cancer.am i doomed?

If you dont stop: Continuing to smoke , particularly at your rate virtually guarantees you will eventually adversely affected by it. Vascular disease can lead to stroke or heart attack. Emphysema can severely limit your life. You are also at high risk for mouth , throat or lung cancer. Quitting now decreases those chances.

Maybe not: Smoking is of course the greatest risk factor by far for common lung cancer, but family history has very little additional impact. There are a variety of ways to make smoking cessation easier nowadays, but is still probably the most difficult of the addictions. Perhaps your personal physician can help; quitting now cuts the cancer risk soon, and stops most long-term non-cancer-related damage.

Quit: Non-smokers can get lung cancer and long term smokers may never get cancer but when you smoke, your risk of lung, throat, and other cancers increases. You can also get heart disease, strokes, you mess up your teeth and your breath. In exchange for that, you are making a tobacco ceo wealthier. Do yourself a favor dear, quit today. You can do it.

Stop smoking: First of all, sorry for your loss. As you probably know yourself, and others have told you, the best thing you can do for your health is to quit smoking. This can not only lower your chance of getting cancers of lung, head and neck , bladder etc. It can also decrease your chance of heart disease and many more health benefits.