does smoking harm

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Rajeev,

I will tell you what I have read on a prominant website. It was enough

to make me stop smoking. What it said was IF you suffer from HERDITARY

pancreatitis and you continue to smoke, then you have a 40% increased

chance of developing pancreactic cancer. It DOES NOT say that is the

same for ANY other form of pancreatitis. But once I read that I quit

anyway, since I suffer from idiopathic pancreatitis.

I used to smoke during an attack and felt it helped to calm me down and

make the attack easier. I also was one of the people who would walk to

the outside selarium (sp) and smoke and actually spend most all of my

hospital stay out there. I never felt it brought on an attack or made

the one I was having worse. But everyone is different.

Hope this is of some help.

Sandy

Fairfield, Ca

rupesh parajuli wrote:

> could you please let me know that does smoking harm if one gets recovered

after one months hospital stay loosing about 50% of pancreas following gall

stone??

>

> thanking you for your perpetual support.

>

> rajeev,

>

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In a message dated 11/16/2003 02:38:45 PM Mountain Standard Time,

tazlady@... writes:

I also was one of the people who would walk to

the outside selarium (sp) and smoke and actually spend most all of my

hospital stay out there. I never felt it brought on an attack or made

the one I was having worse.

Wow! A year ago July when I was in the hospital, a doc told me that as long

as I was on a PCA or IV, they wouldn't let me off the floor and therefore I

couldn't go down to the lobby level where the smoking area was. After 5 days in

the hospital, when I got home, I found I didn't want to smoke anymore, so I

quit. For a month or so. My husband still smoked and it was an awful temptation

and I took it up again. Then, last month when I was in the hospital again, I

couldn't smoke, and haven't taken it back up again. Hubby now smokes outside,

and he's cut down severely, which is good!

Marcy in Colorado