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Posted 5/31/2011 10:07 PM (GMT 0)
I would love to take a poll of UC and smoking! How many of my fellow UC sufferers where previous smokers before being diagnosed with UC and how many were non-smokers?? I myself smoked prior to developing Colitis. I was diagnosed with UC about 8 months after I quit.
Posted 5/31/2011 10:14 PM (GMT 0)
I was a smoker when diagnosed. I quit while I was pregnant with my son, flared about 6 months later and started smoking again. So I don't if in my case, if it was the stopping or the hormones from child birth.
Posted 5/31/2011 10:19 PM (GMT 0)
I never smoked...
Posted 5/31/2011 10:28 PM (GMT 0)
I never smoked either.
Posted 5/31/2011 10:28 PM (GMT 0)
I was a smoker o 30 yrs. Quit and 1 year later developed UC.
Posted 5/31/2011 10:33 PM (GMT 0)
I don't know if this counts but I smoked socially about 5 months then got diagnosed about 4 months later in college.
Posted 5/31/2011 11:14 PM (GMT 0)
I quit smoking and about 5 years later I was diagnosed with UC.
Posted 5/31/2011 11:37 PM (GMT 0)
I quit 15 years before diagnosis
Posted 6/1/2011 12:14 AM (GMT 0)
Got Colitis about 3 years after quitting..
Posted 6/1/2011 12:22 AM (GMT 0)
Got colitis couple months after I quit smoking.
Posted 6/1/2011 12:31 AM (GMT 0)
Not a smoker
Posted 6/1/2011 12:32 AM (GMT 0)
Thanks!!! I think the correlation between Nicotine and Ulcerative Colitis is fascinating!
Posted 6/5/2011 4:24 AM (GMT 0)
I never smoked either.
Posted 6/5/2011 4:35 AM (GMT 0)
Never smoked
Posted 6/5/2011 5:05 AM (GMT 0)
I quit smoking about 10 years before I was diagnosed.
Posted 6/5/2011 5:16 AM (GMT 0)
I was a social smoker in college but now I rarely ever smoke. I may have one cigarette in a month or less.
Posted 6/5/2011 7:54 AM (GMT 0)
Every time I have quit smoking, I flared.  My last flare was sixteen months, I started smoking again and was in 90% remission after about ten days.  Coincidence????

Posted 6/5/2011 8:12 AM (GMT 0)
Negative on the smokage.
Posted 6/5/2011 2:43 PM (GMT 0)
Diagnosed with UP 2006 and was a smoker, was on Asacol for about 3 months, kinda lax in taking it though but seemed to have gone into remission and was meds/symptoms free until got pregnant with my 2nd child (oct 2008). Quit smoking for 2nd pregnancy (although I quit for my 1st one too...?) and I started to flare but was pretty controlled with Asacol.

Started smoking again after that birth ( i know, i know...) then quit...again...Sept 2010. Hospitalized Oct 2010 with severe flare: UC of the Descending Colon and rectum... and have been flaring ever since. Just had another colonoscopy 6/1...I now have pancolitis :-/

I'm smoking again....
Posted 6/5/2011 2:47 PM (GMT 0)
I have never smoked but was around second hand smoke for most of my childhood- both of my parents smoked and my sister does smoke.
Posted 6/5/2011 3:29 PM (GMT 0)
i'm like bananagirl, not a smoker but was around 2nd hand smoke most of my childhood - I know this sounds weird but i occationally wake up craving a cigarette - if there were smokes in the house I swear I'd lite up!!!! especially if i've been around smokers again as an adult.
Posted 6/5/2011 7:59 PM (GMT 0)
Never smoked ever prior to UC... did try nicotine patches and smoking once I had UC but it didnt help at all so I quit that experiment.
Posted 6/5/2011 11:56 PM (GMT 0)
I was a social smoker in college and beyond, pretty much when we drank, we smoked. Outside of drinking, I never smoke.

I quit of course when I was pregnant both times prior. But UC didn't show as a result of that. For me, it was antibiotics that did it.

I have not noticed a strong correlation for myself between smoking and remissions/improvements of UC, but we do have e-cigs now. I imagine once the baby is born, I'll go back to it, but I don't think I will go back to actually smoking.

I had started buying the non-nicotine cartridges for it before I got pregnant this time around, and didn't see any change in my UC.
Posted 6/6/2011 12:04 AM (GMT 0)
Smoked for 5 years. Quit 15 years before I was diagnosed.
Posted 6/6/2011 12:39 AM (GMT 0)
Not a smoker at all beforehand. Very curious about the nicotine /UC connection.
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