Can my lungs heal after i stop smoking? -
Can my lungs heal after i stop smoking? -
him im 19 year old guy i usto smoke on my early year of Junior High but back then i did not smoke that often not un till i reach my junior year in high school, i started smoking 3 cigs every other day in a week then my senior year i started smoking 3 to 4 100 cigarrets (100 is the size of the cig) every other 2 to 3 days now that i got out of school and im in college now i started smoking more frequent, then i told my self i need to love my self more, get in shape and look better so i stop cold turkey way, and i started biting the inside of my lip leaving a big whole.. then later it heal.my question is would my lungs heal? after all i done and how long would it be?
would hookah do anything to my lungs?I smoked a pack and a half a day for 15 years. I quit smoking cold turkey over 5 months ago. Within the first month I could breath easier. My lung capacity has changed immensely. As the first poster replied your lungs do start to heal. Google quit smoking and read about how your health greatly improves when you stop. One website shows a timeline of the expected improvements.
One of the reasons I quit cold turkey was because I didn-t want to become dependent on the patch or nicotine gum. Why quit a habit if I have to start another habit to stay away from my original habit. If that makes any sense. Smoking anything is bad for you so I doubt hookah is good for you.Yeah, my Aunt almost died of smoking before, She had like a 30% chance of living. She made it out of the hospital though and I-m pretty sure her lungs are fine, I haven-t seen her in a while but yeah she can breath and stuff.yes i learned in school that in about 4 years the cells in your lungs will regenerate enough to bring your lungs back comparably to that of a non smoker. uhm yes, -hookah- will harm your lungs too of courseAny type of smoking is bad for you including hookah. Tobacco is tobacco and it-s bad for you to inhale. If you really quit all forms of smoking your lungs can heal. Good Luck!7 years and they are basically normal again
weed (aka hookah) has no know effects. They havent been able to even trace lung cancer to it.Hookah is the same stuff. I talked to a doctor about this, and it has the exact same effect.
So the answer to your question, is it depends. In biology class we learned there are different stages of lung damage. I think 4 to be exact. If you get to 3, your done cause it doesn-t heal and gets worse. Anything below that will heal, but your problem is that because you smoked, you have a higher risk for lung cancer.
Hopefully, in the near future they can bio engineer lungs for you! I know I enjoy a good smoke once a week or once a month.
My suggestion, is just stop. Its a nasty habit, smells grows, yellows your teeth. Even with hookah, you come out reaking!Twelve hours after your last cigarette, the carbon monoxide (that’s car exhaust) is out of your lungs;
After seventy-two hours, your lung’s capacity for breathing starts to increase;
After one to three months, the cilia (hair-like cleaning system) begin to recover and remove all that gunky mucous in your lungs, reducing the chance of infection (even if you never cough stuff up);
After a year, your risk of lung cancer is reduced.
20 Minutes after your last cigarette:
Blood pressure decreases
Temperature of hands and feet increases to normal (because of improved blood circulation)
8 Hours after quitting:
The carbon monoxide level (that-s car exhaust and it-s in cigarette smoke!) in your blood drops to normal
24 Hours after quitting:
Chance of a heart attack decreases
2 Weeks to 3 Months after quitting:
Blood circulation improves
Lung function (how well the lungs are working) increases up to 30%
1 to 9 Months after quitting:
Coughing, congestion, fatigue, shortness of breath decrease
The cilia (small hairs that line the airways) go back to working normally, meaning that your lungs get cleaner and function better overall
1 Year after quitting:
Excess risk of coronary heart disease is half that of a smoker-s
5 Years after quitting:
Risk of stroke is reduced to the risk of a nonsmoker (between 5 and 15 years after quitting)
10 Years after quitting:
The lung cancer death rate is about half the rate of a smoker who has not quit
The risk of oral and throat cancer, bladder, kidney, and pancreatic cancer decreases
15 Years after quitting:
The risk of coronary heart disease is equal to a nonsmoker-s risk.
It-s a myth that hookah smoking is safer than smoking cigarettes. The tobacco is no less toxic. Hookah smokers actually inhale more tobacco smoke than do cigarette smokers because of the massive volume of smoke they inhale.
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