Lung Recovery after Quit Smoking

The question of lung recovery always flashes my mind since before I quit smoking. It is always my doubt on whether my lung will recover to a normal healthy non-smoker’s state or not. This is my concern because if my lung will not recovers there is no purpose for me to quit smoking;/ As I google through, it shows that our lung density will recover to at least 80 percent of those non-smokers – it can’t be 100 percent because the damage already been made – better than nothing right?

When you quit smoking, the inflammation in the airways goes down. The little hair-like projections in the airways called cilia, which are paralyzed by smoke begin to work again. So the lungs will get better in weeks to months. Breathing will get better. Exercise capacity will get better. Paradoxically, people find that they cough a little more right after they stop smoking, but that's natural. That's the lungs cleaning themselves out.

After we quit smoking

After The Last Cigarette

The effect took place just 20 minutes after your last cigarette. This means that your body immune system is always ready to assist you to recover your lung as soon as possible.  It is never too late to quit smoking. Quitting smoking is a smart and loving choice for yourself and for your love one.

After You Quit Smoking - The First Two Days

The healing process begins within 20 minutes. Carbon monoxide level in the bloodstream returns to normal within 8 hours.

After You Quit Smoking - Two Weeks to Three Months

Quitting smoking improves our health almost immediately. Physical improvements continue for years after we quit smoking. Between 2 weeks and 3 months, improvements to circulation, stamina, and lung function can be felt.

After You Quit Smoking - One to Nine Months

The benefits of quit smoking continue to provide physical and psychological improvements to our health. We have more energy, the coughs and headaches are gone, and shortness of breath have decreased between the one and nine month mark of cessation.

One Year Smoke Free

The physical benefits of quitting smoking are obvious. After one year, your risk of coronary heart disease is half of what it was when you smoked.

Long Term Benefits of Quitting Tobacco - 5 to 15 Years

The long term benefits of quitting smoking are impressive. Many of the risk factors return to a level close to that of people who have never smoked before.

The source shown above proved that it takes years for the lung to recover back to almost to its original state. We should start now instead of telling our self tomorrow, tomorrow and tomorrow!!! We won’t know how many tomorrow we’ve got if we continue with these bad habits. I have taken my first step on quitting on puffing the cancerous sticks and now I am looking forward to see my lung improvement.

Sources said that we need to exercise regularly to help improve the lung recovery. Theoretically I think that besides of exercise regularly, breathing exercise also will help to improve our lung density and taking fresh air in the forest and waterfalls might help too. There are no fact about it – it is just my logic – forgive me if I’m wrong. As the fact says that second hand smokers will be prone to risk too – So I was thinking that the air we breathe will determine the health of our lungs – breathing a fresher air might also helps in the recovery of our lung too. However, keeping our self healthy is our responsibility and we have to make sure that we do our part and through this I belief our body will not fail us.