Some ways to help lung health after smoking cessation?I've been smoking a pack and a half fo12 years, and my lungs feel trashed. I quit for 1 1/2 years and felt much better but after starting again my breathing scares me worse then before, anyone do any sort of lung exercises or anything to enhance lung function after tobacco abuse?
Doc
Well if you keep not smoking your lung function will improve, but definitely not as much as in a person that never smoked. In order for better improvement you should spend your holidays on mountain, especially mountains with pine forests, and also to spend more time on the sea side. Mountain and sea air helps for improvement of lung function.
crowfeathers
I imagine that any kind of exercise can enhance lung function. Just don't take beta carotene, it actually increases your chances for lung cancer especially if you are/were a smoker.
Timeline of benefits
What many people don't know is that if you quit smoking you can actually reverse some of the damage that you have done to your body.
After:
20 minutes — your heart rate and blood pressure begins to drop.
12 hours — the carbon monoxide level in your blood drops to normal.
Two-3 weeks — circulation improves and lung function increases.
One-9 months — coughing and shortness of breath decrease and your cilia (tiny hair-like structures that remove mucus from your lungs) regain normal function.
One year — excess risk of coronary heart disease is half that of a smoker.
Five years — stroke risk is reduced to that of a non-smoker (can take up to 15 years).
10 years — Lung cancer death rate is half that of a smoker and risk of other cancers (mouth, throat, esophagus, bladder, cervix and pancreas) decreases.
15 years — risk of coronary heart disease is that of a non-smoker.
So here you go, eat broccoli!
Broccoli May Protect Lungs From Cancer
12/08/2008
A recent study from the University of Minnesota, published in Cancer Prevention Research, found a broccoli compound may help protect against lung cancer in smokers.
While it's safe to say that smoking should be avoided all together, the results suggest smokers could benefit from upping their intake of cruciferous vegetables like broccoli and cauliflower that contain the compound indole-3-carbinol (I3C).
The researchers reported that mice exposed to carcinogens found in tobacco smoke and fed varying doses of I3C had significant reductions in the number of lung tumors.
http://www.foodproductdesign.com/hotnews/broccoli-cigarette-cancer-lung.html
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