Quote Originally Posted by SinisterK
Just wondering. I've been smoking cigarettes daily for a little shorter than a year. Quitting is hard. But I have no excuses, when I'm seriously ready to quit I believe I will.

Hey sinisterK,

Cancer can strike at any age when it comes to smoking.

Until you quit I highly recommend increasing your ascorbic acid, (vitamin c) intake to protect the collagen of your lungs.

Smoking introduces high amounts of oxidized free radicals onto the surface of the lung lining. These need to be neutralized before they destroy healthy tissue in seeking that extra electron as an oxidized molecule is deficient of an electron.

There is actually no set amount of ascorbic acid to take. It is very safe and not toxic until doses of 500 grams/24 hrs are reached. I would be more worried about the mercury amalgam used in teeth fillings.........the most toxic substance on the planet.

2-5 grams/24 hrs. divided 4 times/day of ascorbic acid will keep blood ascorbic plasma levels constant as they are quickly depleted under illness, stress and smoking.

Just use your search box. (ascorbic acid smoking) you will get plenty of hits and info.

Ascorbic acid, (vitamin c) is in a group of one of the most powerful biological reducing agents known. Essential for many physiolgical functions of the body.
Not really a vitamin but a mild acid. it carries two spare electrons to donate to an oxidized free radical, which can prevent the oxidized molecule from stealing that from healthy tissue and starting the cancer process.

You cannot survive more than 200 days without it. That is a fact of scurvy and pre-scurvy or acute induced scurvy, or multiple disease states, such as weak arteries, infections, depression, etc. The list is long.

Use non-synthetic vitamin E, another anti-oxidant also with all tocopherols and tocotrienols, d-gamma tocopherol and d-beta and d-delta tocopherols
which make a complete vitamin E complex. There are a total of 8.

I probably dont have to tell you that there are over 400 other toxic chemicals in cigarettes used to process the tobacco, including ordinary table sugar which tobacco manufacturers added, because when burned is highly addictive. It makes for long term customers.


You can quit smoking, I know you can. After you quit, its a good idea to continue taking antioxidants.


Have a good one.