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Smoking Effects On Health


It is well known that there are many negative smoking effects on health. Nicotine is a poison and other substances in the inhaled smoke can have a bad effect on the lungs too. In fact, the downside of smoking is so significant that most non-smokers have trouble understanding why anybody would smoke at all.

Smoking Effects On Health

Smokers who are not interested in quitting will usually ignore these effects, saying that their health is okay right now and they will quit at some unspecified time in the future. So it is not usually possible to persuade somebody to quit by telling them all of the bad things that may happen. It is not even useful, because it only makes them anxious so they want a cigarette to calm them. Besides, people need to be strongly and profoundly motivated in order to quit successfully. It is not enough to know the dangers intellectually.

But a smoker who wants to quit can benefit from looking closely at some of the smoking effects on health. It can be very motivational to keep a list of these side effects when you are quitting.

One of the best known smoking effects on health is lung cancer. This is a killer disease that shortens the life of many smokers and sometimes, their family members who inhale secondhand smoke. But lung cancer is not the only smoking-related cancer. Cancers of the mouth, throat and esophagus have been shown to be caused by smoking.

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Smoking Effects On Health

Smoking Effects On Health

Smoking has also been shown to affect a person’s chances of getting stomach and colon cancer, as well as cancers of the cervix, pancreas, bladder and kidneys. This may seem bizarre because the smoke does not come into direct contact with these organs but they are thought to suffer from oxygen deprivation and the buildup of toxins in the body. Cigarettes contain nicotine, tar and many other substances that will affect the workings of the body over the years.


Smoking-related cancers can hit at a younger age than you may imagine. They are not limited to old age but often affect people in their 40s.

There are other smoking effects on health that will be important to younger people too. One of the most significant is the effect on the sexual organs. This can affect fertility in both men and women, as well as reducing sexual pleasure and contributing to male dysfunction. Smokers as young as 35 are 50% more likely to suffer from erectile dysfunction than non-smokers.

It is well known that if a woman smokes while pregnant, the fetus is likely to be affected. Babies are often smaller, with a weaker immune system. This may also happen if the woman has to be around other people who smoke. Kids can be damaged too if they grow up in a house where the parents smoke. Their development may be slower and their general health worse, with more colds and other infections.

Smoking Effects On Health
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Smoking also affects the skin. This is due to two factors: first, the buildup of toxins that are excreted through the skin, and second, oxygen deprivation. The result is that the skin becomes dry, wrinkled and old-looking before its time. Smokers also tend to be less physically relaxed and the facial muscles are overly tense during smoking, leading to wrinkles. So even if a person escapes serious disease, they may be hit by other negative smoking effects on health.


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Crossmatch Day




My daughter and I went to the hospital today for blood tests. Not an uncommon occurance for my daughter who gets tested monthly but I don’t have quite as much experience.

But today is a special day for us.

My daughters kidneys have been stable at 27-30% GFR for the last couple months but we all know that her nephronophthisis that my wife and I gave her through a couple bad genes is going to lead to kidney failure likely within a year.

After all the tests that I have gone through to test my health and especially my kidney health and output I have finally been deemed a good candidate if…. if… my blood is a good match with Taylors.

Taylor and Billy doing a Crossmatch

So today Taylor and I drove down to the hospital and each of us had a few vials of blood taken and then after this the transplant people will mix them together. We are both O Positive but for my kidney to be transplanted we need to do this crossmatch to find out if the mix of our blood is going to be a problem for a transplant.


If the crossmatch determines that we are a good match still then we wait and continue to let Taylor’s kidney function to drop further to about 15% and then we can get a transplant done.

Right now Taylor, at 30% kidney function is still a healthy and somewhat active kid. She plays, she runs around laughing, and fights with her brother, but she does get tired and misses school as well. The trouble with kidney disease in kids is that it often does not outwardly manifest but in Taylors case she does get tired and sick way more often then her brother does.

Yesterday our son Jaiden got blood tests done to check how his Creatinine levels are. Since we know that my wife and I are carriers for these bad genes we also know that each kid has a 25% chance to get the kidney disease that Taylor has so we are quietly holding our breath that Jaiden is good.

So always more drama around our house but as time goes on the murky picture of family health is getting a bit clearer



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Kidney Transplant Donor Testing



Yesterday was a long and tiring day at the Foothills hospital in Calgary for me as I started the Kidney transplant donor testing in earnest

The journey for Michelle and I to become transplant donors started a few months back as we know that our daughter will need a new kidney sometime in the new year. A few weeks ago the kidney transplant staff here in Calgary sent us each a health questionnaire and had us take a blood test. The questionnaire was just about 15 minutes to fill out and the blood test was just testing our blood type to see if it was a match for Taylor’s blood type.

After checking through everything the transplant crew decided that they would start with me as the donor and if I fail at any point then my wife would do the same testing.

Once the decision was made I met with our transplant doctor (actually one of three for kidney transplants) and he asked me a couple of questions about my health and was available to answer some questions for me. The only real questions that I had were wondering what the chance of being selected were (good but based on health and tissue typing), and what the recovery will be like for me (fast if laproscopic and longer if open surgery is needed). And after meeting with the doctor the adult transplant department got me a date for testing

Health Testing for Kidney Donor

Yesterday was a long day getting lots of tests. At this point we know that I am a blood type match and that I am willing to donate a kidney to my daughter but yesterday they started assessing my health and the viability of both of my kidneys so that I could have a strong kidney and also be able to give a strong kidney to my daughter.

I started by having eight vials of blood taken so that I could be tested for many diseases, if I was a carrier for any diseases this would make it difficult for my daughter to fight anything since she will be on antirejection drugs after transplant.

Next I had an ECG. An electrocardiogram takes just a minute to do but is critical. It shows the medical staff how good my circulation is as well as testing heart function.

After this quick test I had a diagnostic imaging test. This was actually the longest test that I had and involved a dye being injected into me and at the same time there were pictures taken of it running through my kidneys. This test took about 30 minutes and after that I had to come after two, three, and four hours to have blood taken to see how quickly the dye was being pushed out through my kidneys. This will help the doctors find out the clearing rate of my kidneys.

Finally after this was all done I had a CT scan to see the blood vessels and tissues of my kidneys to see how tough it would be to extract and how healthy they are as well. And quickly after that I had a couple chest X-Rays and I was let go to come home.

Long day to say the least but the staff at Foothills hospital were all fantastic, helpful, and really confident in what they were doing shuttling me through the different parts of the hospital and making sure that I knew what each test was for and what to expect.

Last night I have to admit I was feeling a little beat up. Mostly I think that all of the poking and prodding was bothering me but mostly all the chemicals that were put into me were just working their way through my system. Feeling great today though.

What’s Next for Kidney Transplant Testing?

So now that I had this massive day of testing I am not done yet. I still have to get a Tuberculosis test. I need to do a 24 hour urine collection to see how well my kidneys are clearing over a whole day. I also need to get another blood test done 2 hours after eating breakfast one day as well.

After this is all done, maybe before though Taylor and I will need to do a tissue typing test. This seemed complicated to me but in fact it is pretty easy. I give some blood and Taylor gives some blood and then they mix it all together and see if there are any antibodies from either of us fighting the others blood. I was explained that this mainly happens in people that have had a transplant or blood transfusion before but it is of course important to do anyway.

This whole process for us seems to be long and drawn out but it is important. The last thing we would want to do is a transplant that is not going to have the best chance of success. Actually we should have the results for all tests down withing the next 4 to 6 weeks so not to much longer to wait to find out what our next step will be.

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