When I quitting smoking I found that repairing my lungs as soon as possible was essential to my plan. I think the fact that I was doing something to promote my health immediately, gave me something to really concentrate on and made me feel positive about the whole idea.
So what did I do to start the repair process? Well within the first few days of quitting I decided to try a lung detoxification or in short a lung detox. What this does is speed up the process of removing tar, toxins and chemicals from the lung tissue that have built up over the period of time that you have been smoking, and so speeds up the lung repair.
The lung detox was surprisingly easy to do but the effects were quite staggering so if you are thinking of doing it then prepare yourself for a shock. I expected to have some evidence that my body was getting rid all the gunge in my lungs but didn\’t expect it to happen so quickly and, I hasten to add in such volume. It was a real eye opener to see just how much tar I had in my lungs after 12 years of smoking. It\’s also a side effect to feel mildly sick but that passes after a day or two. What I wasn\’t aware of that it can take anything up to 15 years for the body to break down the tar and toxins naturally. I don\’t know about you but that is way too long for me to wait!
Having gone through the lung detoxification, one thing I decided there and then though was that I was never going back to smoking again. Witnessing first hand the amount of black, nasty stuff that had gathered in my lungs having been a smoker was enough to make me quit for good. I\’m not one of those converted smokers that bangs on at every smoker I meet to try and get them to stop. I completely understand the smokers mind and some people just enjoy it and so good for them. I think though that I had forgotten what it was like to have clean healthy lungs.
The strange thing is in the early stages of lung repair it\’s very usual to get a cough for a few days This a quite normal and it is also a sign that the lungs a re beginning to repair themselves. The cause of the cough is simply the tiny microscopic hairs known as cilia starting to do their main job which is sweeping out toxins, dust and particles from within the lung tissue. So this is why the mucus that you cough up will be discolored. The other cells that are damaged by smoke are the alveoli and these can take longer to repair. In fact there are some specialist doctors who believe that the alveoli never regain the same level of health in an ex smoker as that of someone who has never smoked. What I will say is that I\’m convinced tha a lung detox has helped me in my quest to quit smoking for good.
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