One of the many unpleasant side effects of smoking is severe pain- most often, this pain is felt throughout the legs and feet. The cause of what is described as intense aching, tiredness or discomfort is a condition called Peripheral Vascular Disease (PAD) and is caused by the narrowing or hardening of the arteries in your legs.
Some of the symptoms of Peripheral Vascular Disease include:
- Severe pain or aching in the legs during physical exersion (like climbing stairs or walking) or at night.
- Numbness or tingling sensation in legs or feet.
- Burning or aching in toes while resting
- Sores or open wounds on the feet that will not heal due to lack of blood flow
- One or both legs/feet feeling cold or changing color (pale, blue or reddish toned) due to lack of blood flow
Watch this video about how a PAD sufferer changed his life and eliminated the pain associated with this dibilitating disease:
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I have smoked for 40 years. I recently started to have leg pain. At first it was after standing or walking, today they still hurt when I woke. I looked up smoking and leg pain, saw this video and I am quitting smoking. The pain is very bad and I convinced myself it was something else. I am grateful for this information
Should have condidered this years ago. Article inspired me. I blamed everything else and ignored the obvious. In a month or less, my pain may be reduced significantly. On two coccasions i did not smoke for 2 weeks and I did not notice my pain had declined. Thinking about it now, during that period, I was more active and happy.
yes it was help ful
I have the sae problem now, is it ok if I stop completley soling now??
Am a smoker
YES,HELPFUL….BUT ALL I COULD UNDERSTAND WAS QUIT SMOKING. THE SOUND IS NOT WORKING ON MY COMPUTER. THANKS,BARB.
LET ME KNOW IN WRITING WHAT ELSE I MISSED. THANK YOU!
I have had chronic leg and foot pain for years. And I was a smoker. I gave up smoking for one year and the pain went away within a month and never returned. But I started smoking the odd one here and there and within a few weeks the pain was back, and now just one smoke is enough to make my legs and feet turn really cold and I get pain in my legs and feet for hours, sometimes for half the night making it impossible to sleep.
I am very worried and will quit again tomorrow for good. Don’t be fooled into thinking it’s something else, it’s the smoking that causes this pain, nothing else, I know as I’ve been there, quit and been back again. And the pain is only there when I smoke.
Good luck, you can quit, I done it once, it gets easier when you are off them for a month, just don’t smoke the odd one in the pub like me or you will be back on them again, they are clever and will trick you