Originally posted by BarRoomHero2752
Machiavelli, I have your same problem. I just recently started smoking a month ago. I tried to run but my lungs hurt pretty bad. However, I heard that your lungs go back to normal within' a few weeks I'm not totally positive about this. I just quit cold turkey and I felt like trash for about a week but then it got better. But It's still hard to breath when I run. I'm in pretty good shape too. Does anybody know anyting about this?
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20 minutes
... your blood pressure and pulse rate to return to normal. The temperature of your hands and feet have also returned to normal.
8 hours
... your blood oxygen levels to increase to normal limits and carbon monoxide levels to drop to normal.
24 hours
...your risk of sudden heart attack to substantially decrease.
48 hours
... nerve endings to start regrowing and your sense of smell and taste to begin returning to normal.
72 hours
... your entire body to become 100% nicotine free and the symptoms of chemical withdrawal to have peaked in intensity. Your bronchial tubes will begin relaxing and thus make breathing easier, and your lung capacity will also begin to increase.
10 days to 2 weeks
... your body to have fully adjusted to the absence of nicotine, and the absence of the 3,500 particles and more than 500 gases present in each puff, and chemical (physiological) withdrawal to have ended.
3 weeks to 3 months
... your circulation to have improves substantially, for walking to become easier, and your overall lung function to have shown an amazing increase of roughly thirty percent.
1 to 9 months
... any sinus congestion, fatigue, and shortness of breath to decrease. Cilia have regrown in your lungs thereby increasing their ability to handle mucus, keep your lungs clean, and reduce infections. Your body's overall energy will have increased.
1 year
... your excess risk of coronary heart disease to drop to less than half that of a smoker.
5 years
... your risk of death from lung cancer to have decreased by almost half if you were an average smoker (one pack a day). Your risk of stroke is reduced to that of a nonsmoker at 5-15 years after quitting. Your risk of cancer of the mouth, throat and esophagus is now half that of a smoker's.
10 years
... your risk of death from lung cancer to now be similar to that of non-smokers. Precancerous cells have been replaced. Your risk of cancer of the mouth, throat, esophagus, bladder, kidney and pancreas have also decreased.
15 years
... your risk of coronary heart disease to now be that of a person who has never smoked. Your overall risk of death has returned to nearly that of a person who has never smoked.
