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<blockquote data-quote="AtkinsMo" data-source="post: 1248974" data-attributes="member: 104933"><p>The biggest problem for diabetic smokers is that the most common side effect of smoking is cardio-vascular disease, as it is in diabetes, and I guess you would be doing far more than doubling your risk. My mother, a lifelong heavy smoker who simply could not stop died a horrible death, first she got intermittent claudication and was seriously immobile for about 10 years, eventually she went into renal failure because of narrowing of her renal arteries. I was already a non smoker, having given up before I got pregnant, but having watched my mother's steady decline I became a committed anti-smoker. So, just as diabetics can choose not to manage their blood glucose and insulin levels (in the case of Insulin Resistant T2s) so they can also choose to smoke, but the risks are huge.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="AtkinsMo, post: 1248974, member: 104933"] The biggest problem for diabetic smokers is that the most common side effect of smoking is cardio-vascular disease, as it is in diabetes, and I guess you would be doing far more than doubling your risk. My mother, a lifelong heavy smoker who simply could not stop died a horrible death, first she got intermittent claudication and was seriously immobile for about 10 years, eventually she went into renal failure because of narrowing of her renal arteries. I was already a non smoker, having given up before I got pregnant, but having watched my mother's steady decline I became a committed anti-smoker. So, just as diabetics can choose not to manage their blood glucose and insulin levels (in the case of Insulin Resistant T2s) so they can also choose to smoke, but the risks are huge. [/QUOTE]
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