Community Experience · Baidu Tieba (Quit Smoking bar)
A Lung Nodule on the Checkup, a Neighbor's Funeral, and Quit Day
After 31 years of smoking and many failed attempts, two events lined up — a lung nodule found at a checkup, and a neighbor dying of cancer at 62 — and June 1, 2015 became quit day.
Experience snapshot
- Years smoking
- 31 years
- Cigarettes per day
- Not reported
- Quit attempt number
- Multiple, all failed before this attempt
- Age group
- Not reported
- Gender
- Not reported
Reported outcome
Not reported beyond the start of the attempt.
What can be learned
Abstract health risks became concrete through a scan result and a death close to home.
Evidence status
This is a single community report (community-report). It describes one person's experience. It does not constitute medical advice or scientific evidence.
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