How fast do lungs heal after quitting smoking?

[Jason]

While your lungs will heal up quite a bit when you quit smoking, there are parts that will be damaged beyond repair. It all depends on how heavy and how long you smoked, and you would most likely not notice anything until later on in life.

My grandfather died recently; mostly due to heart problems, but he also had bad enough emphysema to where he had to use oxygen. It did not really develop noticeably until around 5-6 years before he died. The doctors said this was from smoking, even though he quit shortly after he got out of the navy after WWII.

Just something to think about. It's obviously not going to affect everyone the same way. Moral is: Try to quit, and try to do it as early as possible.

[snusjus]

Just something to think about. It's obviously not going to affect everyone the same way. Moral is: Try to quit, and try to do it as early as possible.

I couldn't agree more. I'm 19 years old, but when I smoked cigarettes, my lungs had a burning sensation chronically. My case may be different from others, since I had sever asthma as a child; I was hospitalized several times with pneumonia from this. The symptoms from asthma are likely to reoccur during a person's age in their mid-twenties; I hope I quit smoking soon enough.

[devnty06]

In reality your body begins to recover from the effects of smoking within 20 minutes as your heart rates returns to the level it was before your last cigarette. In less than 3 months of quitting your lung function increases and your circulation has improved. Your risks of developing lung cancer and other cancers, chronic lung disease, having a stroke or heart attack all decrease.

[Snuts]

That's funny. Before I quit smoking (2 months ago) I avoided to read this kinda of topic. The worst blind is the one who doesn't want to see, and that was my case. I knew about all the bad stuff that smoking was bringing to my body but I really didn't want to be reminded of that.

Anyway, two months pass and I start improving my phisycal and pchicological condition. I started feeling taste again. For example I eated a slice of cheese on the other day and I thought: "Damn, this is a good cheese.", and I asked the wife where did she get it. She said it was the same cheese she buys every week. I realized that before quiting I only felt the freshness of the cheese(it's in the refrigerator), no taste at all.

Believe me, I'm proud of myself from this achievement and Snus has 80% of share of it.

PS: hope you guys can understand my "engrish"..

[precious007]

Everything is quite questionable ...
There's people that quit that are a lot safer now ... from some people that second-hand smoke in bars, cafes, clubs every single day...

I've heard a story of a girl that died of lung-cancer... she was 28 and was working as a bartender (she never smoked though)

She made lung cancer from second-hand smoking alone.

[Veganpunk]

Tough break for the bartender. Smokers can say what they want, but second hand smoke is really bad. Anyone who smokes inside for extended periods can see all the yellow on the walls.

[Jwalker]

Damn 28 is young, like really young getting diagnosed with lung cancer at 28 is like getting Alzhimer's at 28, the mean age you get it is like upper 60s or early 70s.