There’s often this common question from most of the quitters of smoking and even the smokers themselves that how can they clean their lungs after smoking. How to remove the tar, how to detoxify the body, how much time will it take to clean the body, will the damage from smoking be undone, can the lungs become fully healthy, etc. are also some of the questions asked commonly by many smokers.
In this blog today, I shall elaborate on the natural ways to clean and detoxify your lungs to ensure that the lungs get back to healthy shape as fast as possible. Lungs are capable of healing themselves. However, adding activities that can aid the cleaning process speeds up the process and prevents further damage. The following practices can be adopted:
- Steam Inhalation: Perform steam inhalation for 15-20 mins twice a week (for severe smokers) and once a week for all others. This helps to break the tar in the lungs and remove them from the air bags.
- Use Acapella: This is a device to improve oxygenation in the lungs. It expands the constricted air bags in the lungs and helps to absorb more oxygen thereby also improving the lung conditions. It is available on www.icancare.org
- Pranayam: Performing 15-20 minutes of pranayam daily also improves the breathing process and helps to improve the lungs’ functioning and strength.
- Herbal Tea and Green Tea: Introducing a cup of herbal tea and green tea on alternate days helps in detoxification of the body.
- Introduce Anti-inflammatory Diet and Anti-oxidants: Food products like turmeric, green leafy vegetables, cherries, blueberries, pineapple, citrus fruits, sprouts, lentils and beans have anti-inflammatory properties. It will help in preventing inflammation of the lungs and also prevent congestion that causes difficulties in breathing and heaviness in the chest.
- Use Respiratory Mask in polluted places and to protect self from passive smoking and other forms of smoke. The polluted air also causes huge damage to the lungs and other vital organs.
- Put Some Indoor Plants that helps to improve the quality of air at home and workplace. Some of them includes Aloevera, Areca Palm, Lad Palm and Bamboo.
- Avoid too much of caffeine intake in coffee and tea and other products. 2 Cups of tea/coffee should be drank in the entire day as it has medicinal properties.
- Introduce a regular sport or favorite form of exercise in your daily routine and make it a habit to do 1 hour of vigorous exercise once every week.
- Drink a glass of vegetable juice every morning that should at least have bottle gourd, pudina, ginger, carrot and lemon in it.
These measure when adopted and practiced regularly will help in cleaning your lungs as a faster rate and will also make you healthy at the same time. When the oxygenation in the lungs improves, one feels much more active, fresh and livelier than before. Going out for vacations 3-4 times a year into the wild where there’s serenity and peace all around is also advised. You will notice that you feel very fresh with nature and are rejuvenated to a great extent.