Dr. Peter Attia

Each of them has their pluses and minuses. I did a whole podcast on this. that gets into the itty-bitty nuances of this. But the bottom line is, nicotine replacement, very, very powerful tool, because nicotine, if derived from a clean source, like a synthetic nicotine, doesn't carry any of these cancer risks, at least We can be very confident that that's true.

Certainly not from a lung cancer perspective. There may be other risks. So we should be mindful about how much nicotine we do consume. But it allows you to deal with what the addictive piece was. And then the final thing is understanding the oral fixation that a lot of people have with a cigarette.

Certainly not from a lung cancer perspective. There may be other risks. So we should be mindful about how much nicotine we do consume. But it allows you to deal with what the addictive piece was. And then the final thing is understanding the oral fixation that a lot of people have with a cigarette.

Certainly not from a lung cancer perspective. There may be other risks. So we should be mindful about how much nicotine we do consume. But it allows you to deal with what the addictive piece was. And then the final thing is understanding the oral fixation that a lot of people have with a cigarette.

By the way, I think that's why kind of the nicotine toothpicks are kind of nice is for many people, it's just, it's a bit of an oral fixation with a nicotine containing thing. There are also different classes of antidepressants that can be very helpful with people that are quitting smoking. So we'll put that aside because it's self-evident that one should not smoke.

By the way, I think that's why kind of the nicotine toothpicks are kind of nice is for many people, it's just, it's a bit of an oral fixation with a nicotine containing thing. There are also different classes of antidepressants that can be very helpful with people that are quitting smoking. So we'll put that aside because it's self-evident that one should not smoke.

By the way, I think that's why kind of the nicotine toothpicks are kind of nice is for many people, it's just, it's a bit of an oral fixation with a nicotine containing thing. There are also different classes of antidepressants that can be very helpful with people that are quitting smoking. So we'll put that aside because it's self-evident that one should not smoke.

But the sometimes to how to do it is easier said than done.

But the sometimes to how to do it is easier said than done.

But the sometimes to how to do it is easier said than done.

Well, when it comes to smoking, we know that after a certain number of years, depending on how long of a smoker you were, your risk of heart disease and cancer will return to baseline. It will. It will, yeah. Now, again, you might not get there because depending on how long you smoked, it could be 30 years before you return to baseline.

Well, when it comes to smoking, we know that after a certain number of years, depending on how long of a smoker you were, your risk of heart disease and cancer will return to baseline. It will. It will, yeah. Now, again, you might not get there because depending on how long you smoked, it could be 30 years before you return to baseline.

Well, when it comes to smoking, we know that after a certain number of years, depending on how long of a smoker you were, your risk of heart disease and cancer will return to baseline. It will. It will, yeah. Now, again, you might not get there because depending on how long you smoked, it could be 30 years before you return to baseline.

So if you're a 50-year-old who's quitting smoking and you've been a pack-a-day smoker for 40 years or, you know, say 30 years... you might not make it to 80 without some event. So we still act with enormous vigilance in people who are former smokers.

So if you're a 50-year-old who's quitting smoking and you've been a pack-a-day smoker for 40 years or, you know, say 30 years... you might not make it to 80 without some event. So we still act with enormous vigilance in people who are former smokers.

So if you're a 50-year-old who's quitting smoking and you've been a pack-a-day smoker for 40 years or, you know, say 30 years... you might not make it to 80 without some event. So we still act with enormous vigilance in people who are former smokers.

In our practice, we treat former smokers and smokers identically when it comes to cancer screening, because even though we know the risk is coming down in them, we just assume it's still quite high. And so we will still screen them very aggressively for every cancer that we can treat. even maybe against the advice of sort of medical authorities in terms of how aggressively we'd look at it.

In our practice, we treat former smokers and smokers identically when it comes to cancer screening, because even though we know the risk is coming down in them, we just assume it's still quite high. And so we will still screen them very aggressively for every cancer that we can treat. even maybe against the advice of sort of medical authorities in terms of how aggressively we'd look at it.

In our practice, we treat former smokers and smokers identically when it comes to cancer screening, because even though we know the risk is coming down in them, we just assume it's still quite high. And so we will still screen them very aggressively for every cancer that we can treat. even maybe against the advice of sort of medical authorities in terms of how aggressively we'd look at it.

The same is also true for cardiovascular disease. We do see that over time, that risk will return to the baseline risk. But remember, as you're aging, what's happening to your baseline risk? It's going way up. Age is the single biggest predictor of risk for both cardiovascular disease and cancer. Okay. Yeah.