How Do Lungs Heal After Quitting Smoking?
We all know that smoking causes high blood pressure, heart damage, staining of the skin and teeth and, perhaps most substantially, severe damage to the lungs. Indeed, smoking is so damaging to the lungs that smokers are at a substantially increased risk of developing fatal lung cancer. Fortunately, even cases of life-long or otherwise long term smokers, human lung tissue begins the process of healing itself when smoking is ceased. This means that while smoking makes a person more susceptible to lung cancer, smokers can significantly reduce their risk of developing the disease by becoming non-smokers. How? The fact of the matter is that cigarette smoke contains a multitude of poisons and carcinogens, and when you eliminate these chemicals from your body, your body is able to function more normally and begin the process of healing. It is a fact that people begin to see health benefits almost immediately after their last cigarette. Within 20 minutes, blood pressure and heart rate both ret
