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What is your life span with emphysema if you contiune smoking ?
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Depends: Multiple factors contribute to a persons death from emphysema. If the person still has good exercise capacity and no heart disease they tend to live longer as opposed to patient with frequent exacerbations of their emphysema and if they have heart disease. Smoking cessation will add years to the life of a person with smoking related lung disease.
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See below: Usually shorter than if you quit smoking.
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