The safest and best thing you can do for your health is quit smoking. Is it safer to use an electronic smoking device (such as an e-cigarette, vape pen, or Juul) than to smoke cigarettes? If I get COVID-19, I don’t want to make my symptoms worse. Quitting smoking or smoking less will help you breathe better and better manage your symptoms if you get sick with COVID-19.
Need to be hooked up to a ventilator (breathing machine) to help you breathe.Need to go to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU).This means that if you keep smoking and you become sick with COVID-19, you’re more likely to have worse symptoms than someone who doesn’t smoke and gets COVID-19. We do know that smoking damages your lungs and that COVID-19 causes mild to severe breathing problems. For more information about how you can quit smoking, read our resource Tobacco Treatment Guide: For Patients and Their Families, call our Tobacco Treatment Program at 21, or visit Back to top FAQs About Smoking and COVID-19 Does smoking increase my risk of getting COVID-19 and make the symptoms of COVID-19 worse?Īt this time, we don’t know if smoking will increase your chance of getting COVID-19. Memorial Sloan Kettering’s (MSK’s) Tobacco Treatment Program can provide emotional support and treatment for you and your family during this time. Talking with a healthcare provider who specializes in helping people who are quitting smoking. We understand that quitting smoking while going through other stressful situations, such as cancer treatment and COVID-19, can be overwhelming. Lowering your risk of dying from cancer and other diseases.Helping you feel more in control of your life.Helping you feel less stressed and have a better quality of life.Improving your sleep and helping you feel less tired and have more energy.Helping your heart and lungs work better.Lowering your risk of getting new cancers.Lowering your risk of your cancer coming back.Helping improve your breathing after surgery.
Lowering the amount of side effects you’ll have.Helping your cancer treatments work as well as possible.Quitting smoking comes with many benefits, including: Smoking during cancer treatment can keep chemotherapy, radiation, and surgery treatments from working as well as they should. Back to top About Smoking and Your Cancer Care This information answers some frequently asked questions (FAQs) about how COVID-19 may affect you, your health, and your cancer care if you smoke cigarettes, cigars, or use an electronic smoking device (such as an e-cigarette, vape pen, or Juul ®). It’s normal to feel stressed, scared, or worried about COVID-19, especially if you smoke or have breathing problems.
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