Will and if so how long will it take my lungs to go back to normal after I quit smoking? -
Just 20 minutes after your last cigarette, your blood pressure and
pulse rate drop to normal and the body temperature of your hands and
feet increases to normal.
A mere 8 hours after your last smoke, the carbon monoxide level
decreases and the oxygen level in your blood increases to normal.
Just 24 hours after your last cigarette, you substantially lessen
your chances of having a heart attack.
Two days after your last cigarette, you will notice that your
ability to taste and smell is enhanced.
Three days later, your breathing should be noticeably better
because your lung capacity will be greater.
Your circulation will improve and your lung functioning will
increase up to 30% within two weeks to three months after quitting.
Between one month and nine months, the cilia in your lungs will
regenerate, allowing your body to clean your lungs and reduce
infection.
One year after quitting, your risk of coronary heart disease is
half that of a smoker.
Five years after quitting, your risk of stroke is reduced to that
of a nonsmoker.
Ten years after quitting, the lung cancer death rate is about half
that of a continuing smokers. The risk of cancer of the mouth, throat, esophagus, bladder, kidney and pancreas decreases.
Fifteen years after quitting, your risk of coronary heart disease is that of a nonsmokers.
Exercise is a great substitute for smoking. You may find that as you
exercise more, you cough more, clearing out your lungs and airways.
This is good. Most likely you-ll breath easier and build up your
endurance as you get further and further from your last cigarette.
The lungs come equipped with a self-cleaning cycle, but overloading
them with smoke or smog will gunk up the works. The cilia, or hairlike
structures in your lungs, flagellate (that-s move) upward, coaxing the
bad stuff out of the alveoli (little air sacs) and into the trachea,
where the gunk grows into a frightening reminder of why you should
have been better to your lungs to begin with. -It-s like a mucus
escalator,- says Norman Edelman, M.D., a scientific advisor to the
American Lung Association. -That-s a major form of defense. Within a
few days to a week (after quitting smoking], you start feeling better,
and you start coughing up all that bad mucus you have down there.
They will never get normal bcuz you already damaged them smoking
Tough Break
I have heard that after ten years it is as if you have never smoked. Not sure how true it is.
they told me 3 years for every year you smoked. so i smoked for 17 years means in 51 yrs or 27 more? cjhs