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Smoking and T2/insulin resistance

Scotty84

Scotty84

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Hi I'm trying to give up smoking and was wondering how quitting would improve my health in regards to insulin resistance. I was wondering what peoples experiences are
 
Google diabetes and smoking and you'll see how much worse smoking is for us than for anyone else. That helped me a lot when I gave up when I was diagnosed. I also got patches from the doctor on prescription which helped a lot. I've heard that the e-cigs are not a good aid for stopping though.
And I felt tons better once I'd stopped. Good luck ;)
 
I hope one day ill kick them.. only on the occasional fag now and feel better for it but its very hard. Good luck!
 
E cigs are great btw. I didnt touch a fag for 6 months but then it broke.. managed to go another 3 months after before I caved. Had a lot going on in my personal life at the time.
 
I work in a factory and pretty much everyone smokes and I tend to follow like a sheep. I did try patches about 6 years ago didn't work an dive had a ecig but found I kept losing it. Cold turkey on the other hand is something I've not tried
 
You can do it if you want to. My Mum died on christmas day 9 years ago, just 10 days after I was diagnosed and gave up smoking. And there followed a heap of trouble when it emerged my brother had been bullying her, and more, and caused a huge family split, one of the worst times of my sister and my lives.
But the last time I spoke to Mum she was so pleased I've given up smoking and I knew if I started again she'd have been very upset. She was diabetic, had had several mini strokes and a heart attack years before the one that finally killed her.
And a few months after that my friend who lived across the road from me, but who hadn't stopped smoking when she was diagnosed, died from a heart attack. I only had to look out the window to be faced with her place empty and up for sale. She was only just 40, very sad.
Smoking doesn't make any bad time any better, no matter what the problem is, so why sabotage your own health and make things even worse?
 
rowan said:
Google diabetes and smoking and you'll see how much worse smoking is for us than for anyone else. That helped me a lot when I gave up when I was diagnosed. I also got patches from the doctor on prescription which helped a lot. I've heard that the e-cigs are not a good aid for stopping though.
And I felt tons better once I'd stopped. Good luck ;)
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I quit after using e cigs for 2 months. Been smoke free for 8 months now.
 
Sorry to hear that rowan. I started smoking at 20 I'm now 30 I found since I started smoking I've had health problems. Glandular fever/gallbladder out/ diabetes / enlarged spleen. I just hope stopping smoking I'd notice a difference sounds daft I know but I wonder if any of the above would have happened if I was non smoker. Will quoting smoking improve beta cells ?
 
Scotty84 said:
Sorry to hear that rowan. I started smoking at 20 I'm now 30 I found since I started smoking I've had health problems. Glandular fever/gallbladder out/ diabetes / enlarged spleen. I just hope stopping smoking I'd notice a difference sounds daft I know but I wonder if any of the above would have happened if I was non smoker. Will quoting smoking improve beta cells ?
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I'm not a medical person and don't know what beta cells are, but giving up smoking will definitely help your diabetes and you general health. It could also help you avoid any future illnesses you could get as a result of smoking - look up palmoplantar pustulosis, I have that and it's mostly smokers that get it, not nice! And ultimately giving up could help save your life because your risk of strokes and heart attacks won't be as bad. That would make you feel heaps better ;)
Honestly, you've nothing to lose, everything to gain. Apart from the health benefits, any breathlessness will go, your food will taste better, your sense of smell will be better, you will feel fitter, you won't smell like an old ashtray and you'll save money :)
And I'm sure you'll have the support of people on here, loads of other people will have given up too so we know what it's like!
 
I smoked 30 a day for 15 years, went on ecigs for 18 months dropping the dose from 36mg to 11mg then went on nicotinelle losenges for 6 months and gave them up 4 months ago, been nicotine free since :)
 
rowan said:
You can do it if you want to. My Mum died on christmas day 9 years ago, just 10 days after I was diagnosed and gave up smoking. And there followed a heap of trouble when it emerged my brother had been bullying her, and more, and caused a huge family split, one of the worst times of my sister and my lives.
But the last time I spoke to Mum she was so pleased I've given up smoking and I knew if I started again she'd have been very upset. She was diabetic, had had several mini strokes and a heart attack years before the one that finally killed her.
And a few months after that my friend who lived across the road from me, but who hadn't stopped smoking when she was diagnosed, died from a heart attack. I only had to look out the window to be faced with her place empty and up for sale. She was only just 40, very sad.
Smoking doesn't make any bad time any better, no matter what the problem is, so why sabotage your own health and make things even worse?
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I had a similar experience. I had given up several times, even for 10 months once but then my mother lived with me for 6 weeks whilst my Dad was in hospital and I was driven back to it!

Some years later after several years of stopping and starting again, my father was diagnosed with pulmonary fibrosis and was given 6 months to live. Even though this was an extremely upsetting and stressful time, how could I smoke when my poor Dad was on oxygen, gasping for breath? So I stopped for good with the help of Nicorette gum. And this was the most stressful time of my life ... as well as my father dying, I was going through a divorce, I went back to work full time, moved out of my marital home and bought another place and to top it off, premature menopause. That was 15 years ago and I've never been tempted. Yet at the same time I know if I had 'just one' I'd be back on 'em. So addictive.

Funny what you can do when you're in the right mindset
 
Lesleywo said:
That was 15 years ago and I've never been tempted. Yet at the same time I know if I had 'just one' I'd be back on 'em. So addictive.

Funny what you can do when you're in the right mindset
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I still dream that I have 'just one' and no more, but in real life I'm like you, that one would lead to 'just one more' ;)
I do miss it at times, but knowing the added risks we diabetics have I know I'll never have another one, it really is the single most dangerous thing we can do, much more than putting on weight which is usully just a temporary blip when you first give up!
Oh and I just remembered that awful smokers cough in the mornings, no way would I go back to that!
 
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