Wednesday, December 29, 2010

Repairing the Lungs After Quitting Smoking With a Lung Detox

Repairing the lungs after quitting smoking is a great help to remaining quit. When you can actually feel your lungs becoming cleaner and stronger it's a great incentive. I can speak personally about this because it helped me to stop smoking for good. 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. It's quite simple to do but is an intense course and works very quickly so if you decide that it's something that you want to try then be prepared. You do feel a little sick at times and without being too explicit, you do start to remove the contents of your lungs quite quickly. But what a relief it is to know that you are actually ridding your body of these harmful toxins once and for all in a matter of weeks. Apparently to allow the body alone to fully expel these chemicals and tar from the lungs can take between 10 to 15 years so it's much better in my mind to get this done as soon as possible.

What it told me was that I was never going back to smoking again. There's no point going through a lung detox only to start smoking again. In fact though, the strange thing is the thought of smoking actually made me feel ill. If I even smelled another smokers smoke this also made my stomach turn a little. Don't get me wrong, I'm not one of these ex smokers who preaches to smokers to stop. I fully understand the powerful addiction and enjoyment involved with smoking, but I would personally never go back now that my lungs are repaired and healthy.

So what happens when the lungs are repairing? The main damage from smoking is done to the alveoli and the cilia. The alveoli are tiny sacks which transfer oxygen into the bloodstream. The alveoli damage caused by smoking is quite severe and some believe that it is never fully repaired even after many years, but don't allow this to put you off quitting.

On the other hand there is much better news about cilia. These are microscopic hairlike structures which actually sweep out particles and toxins from the lungs. Smoking paralyzes the cilia and so allows particles to build up. Once you have stopped smoking and the repairing of the lungs begins to happen the cilia start to function again and so strangely enough you may develop a cough. This is a good sign. The lung detox actually brought this stage on very quickly, two or three days to be exact and then fast tracked the cleaning of the lungs to speed up the repairing process. Within 3 or 4 weeks you start to feel a whole lot better.

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Tuesday, December 28, 2010

Prevention for the Common Cold : Quit Smoking to Prevent the Common Cold

Learn about how to cut back on smoking to prevent the common cold in thisfree health video series. Expert: David Jackel Bio: As a singer, David Jackel knows the dire effects that a cold can have on his ability to perform. Filmmaker: David Jackel



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Sunday, December 26, 2010

How My Husband Quit Smoking After 40 Years and How I'm Coping With the Quitting Process

I am not a doctor, so I don't write from the medical point of view to advocate any products or services, yet, I can share that a medication my husband has taken has helped him quit the physical addiction to the nicotine in the cigarettes. That medication is Chantix.

For the first week he used the Chantix, he smoked, just a little bit less. The second week on Chantix, the "must-have " urges for the cigarette were reduced in about half. I was ecstatic. He was obnoxious. He was extremely moody and I would not allow myself to give in.

I learned that in the past when he had tried to quit smoking, his family, by the fourth day he was smoke-free, yelled at him to smoke because he was nasty and intolerable. I knew this going in to this process and I promised myself that I would not accept verbally abusive treatment , no matter what. Second, I decided that I would not, under any circumstances, tell him to smoke.

Was it hard to stick to my personal promises, yes. Almost impossible at times, but I knew that I would not be the one to tell him to quit trying to quit. I had to be stronger than him, if necessary, emotionally. It was necessary. I kept a positive outlook on the long-term future benefits to his health, and our lives. I kept telling myself, " I can get through his quitting even if he's not sure if he can."

It's been about 21 days since he's had a cigarette, yesterday he made one greater improvement, he stopped complaining about a heaviness in his chest. He was nice to me and verbalized his recognition that he was making progress. He mentioned that psychologically, he still wants to pick up a cigarette, but that he has decided not to. He's also sleeping more soundly, so I am sleeping better.

We're going to celebrate our progress with a mini-getaway. Hang in there, the results will be awesome.

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