Is this true? If you stop smoking, your lungs will (over time) repair themselves?site your source please TY? -
Is this true? If you stop smoking, your lungs will (over time) repair themselves?site your source please TY? -
I am a female 41 yrs of age as of feb 20th this yer. i have COPD and I have known for a while that I need to if not STOP, slow down on my cig. use. Please cite your source when e mailing me and thanks for your input.You didn-t state the type or severity of the COPD that you have and if you could provide that information if would help. Once you stop smoking the clilia start working again andatart to regrow the -burnt off bits- within a 6 week period. In the first week alone food starts to taste better and that is why we so strongly encourage a walking with a die hard friend foe who-ll kick your butt out the door even when your carrying a chain saw and a tire iron. I know that I can be done. I was a three pak a day chain smoke-n fool until I went into respiratory therapy school. My Staff precept was also the department dirictor and part owner in the hospital, therefore he took me up to the specials unit to show me a lady on a respirator. They had takrn out her entire Left lung due to cancer. When I was escorted into her room and handed a flash light and instructed to look all I could see was her beating heart and her partially shrunked lung on the good because the doctors were afraid to do more barotruma.My souces include but are not limited to #1 personal experience, #2 CDC, #3 American Heart Association, #4 American Lung Association, #5 NIH, #6 The tobacco quit line, #7 phillip-morris foundation. These are just a few to get you started. All can be found on the internet. One final note .....Did you know that in about 3 month you can regain up to approximatly 30% of your lung function, depending on how bad the damage was to begin with. And at 10 years of abstenence from smoking you change of have ing lung canger is equal to that of a person who never smoked. Pretty cool, I-d say. If you have specific questions e-mail me. Lights almost always on. Prayers on a sussessful quit date.
You too can be a quiter. Hooray!!!!!!I don-t remember the book we used but back in high school I took and AP bio class and in it I know it stated that when you stop after 1 week you start to feel healthier, 1 year you can breath easier and after 5 years your lungs are no longer black. This is about the time they start to repair themselves.Your lungs will regenerate to perfect pink in 7 years.
I-m having a hard time finding the link to that, but I-ve known it for years from medical classes in the Marines.
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