Smoking Soon After Waking Could Increase Your Risk Of Lung Cancer

In an article from Medical News Today, researchers are suggesting to wait for a while after you wake up to smoke your first cigarette. They think that waiting a while to smoke a cigarette will significantly decrease your nicotine uptake.

"These people may require a more intensive intervention than
other smokers to help them quit smoking on a sustained or permanent basis," he
added.The blood concentration of the metabolite cotinine is a good indicator of
how well our bodies absorb nicotine when we smoke cigarettes. Previous studies
have shown there is a wide variation in cotinine levels per cigarette smoked,
and the researchers hypothesized that in addition to how often a smoker smokes,
there might be other nicotine dependence behaviours that affect cotinine levels,
such as time to first cigarette after waking. This in turn could affect a
smoker's chances of quitting as well as impacting his or her health.For the
study the researchers recruited 252 healthy black and white community-dwelling
daily cigarette smokers and examined a number of behaviours that are thought to
reflect the urge to smoke. They also measured their plasma and urinary cotinine
levels."These people may require a more intensive intervention than other
smokers to help them quit smoking on a sustained or permanent basis," he
added.The blood concentration of the metabolite cotinine is a good indicator of
how well our bodies absorb nicotine when we smoke cigarettes. Previous studies
have shown there is a wide variation in cotinine levels per cigarette smoked,
and the researchers hypothesized that
in addition to how often a smoker smokes, there might be other nicotine
dependence behaviours that affect cotinine levels, such as time to first
cigarette after waking. This in turn could affect a smoker's chances of quitting
as well as impacting his or her health.For the study the researchers recruited
252 healthy black and white community-dwelling daily cigarette smokers and
examined a number of behaviours that are thought to reflect the urge to smoke.
They also measured their plasma and urinary cotinine levels. [...] The
researchers concluded that:"These findings suggest that the time to first
cigarette is a strong predictor of nicotine uptake and should be considered in
the design of smoking interventions."Muscat said:"Not all smokers are the same
and approaches to smoking reduction may need to account for individual smoking
behaviors such as the intensity and frequency of puffing, cravings and physiological symptoms.""It is unclear why smokers who take their first puff immediately
after waking have higher cotinine levels, but
this may reflect a more intense pattern of smoking. We need to find out why this
is," he added.Muscat and his team are now trying to find out if time to first
cigarette affects levels of other nicotine metabolites. If they find a similar
link, then time to first cigarette may become another risk factor for lung
cancer.

The article is basically saying that if you wait for a while after waking up to smoke your first cigarette it will significantly decrease your chances of getting cancer. The smart thing to do would be to just not smoke at all!