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How to Clean Your Lungs after Quitting Smoking?

Cleanse Your Lungs in a Healthy and Natural Way!

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:

  1. 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.
  2. 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
  3. Pranayam: Performing 15-20 minutes of pranayam daily also improves the breathing process and helps to improve the lungs’ functioning and strength.
  4. Herbal Tea and Green Tea: Introducing a cup of herbal tea and green tea on alternate days helps in detoxification of the body.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. 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.

Are You Your Own Remote Control?

Gain back self-power and become your own masters!

Last week, my friend was very anxious. He was about to be promoted in 4 years’ time and was still not confident he would through. In that stress, I could sense fear, loss of hope and struggle to cope with it. He washed out a couple of times, but was back soon. He smoked twice as many cigarettes he usually smoked on a regular day.

Every time his boss would call, his heart thumped and sank down fearing that his promotion might be at stake. So he would smoke even harder to manage with his anxiety. There was a lot of change in his behavior. He would get angry quickly, burst out on his children without reasons and have regular fights with his wife.

This made me think, was he the person I really know? A promotion changed his behavior and actions to a large extent. He could not control his thoughts, emotions, actions or even the number of puffs he took.

Friends, this is the case with many of us today. Financial pressures and responsibilities of a family, creates a lot of stress in the minds of an individual. One might get sick or go down into depression if not realized and corrected on time.

Studies have shown that people smoke more to relieve their stress. That implies that more stress would cause more smoking which again implies increased expenditure, more diseases due to smoking, and adverse impact on family’s health due to second-hand-smoke thereby leading to increased medical bills. This leads to limited savings and again increases the stress levels due to financial burden and then the cycle continues.

Does more smoking lead to more stress or more stress leads to more smoking?

Can’t the chain be broken? We know the adverse effects of smoking and the stress it causes in the family. Then why can’t we control our own cravings? Why can’t we be determined and be our own masters and control our brain the way we want? Are we so fragile in this most comfortable era that we do not even want to rule ourselves and be driven by a petty and trivial thing called cigarette?

I have often heard smokers say that the cravings are so strong that they cannot manage it. The after effects, the so called “withdrawal symptoms” are so worse that they cannot cope with it. But let me tell that your cravings are not stronger than your thoughts and determination. If you decide tenaciously to be stress free, then you will be and the entire universe will help you.

All you have to do is take back your control from the hands of cigarette and give it to yourself and drive your actions as per your will. I’m sure that all of you can become your own masters and be your own “Remote Control”. Don’t lose it. Because once the control is lost beyond repair, the damage will be severe and irreversible. Life is no video game that can give you multiple lives if you make a mistake and die in the game. So think smartly and act firmly and vigilantly.

The Invisible Tobacco – Case 2

Similar case of lesions without the use of tobacco was observed in a 52 year old lady. She had a mixed red and white lesion on right buccal mucosa and alveolar ridge, which was found to be malignant on investigation.

She belonged to a well to do family. Both her husband and son were ayurvedic specialists. She refused any form of tobacco use, at least not that she was aware of.

For the last 23 years following her marriage she had been using a special form of toothpaste which initially (as per her version) gave her dizziness, but later she felt good after using the tooth paste and could not brush her teeth without it every day. She loved to brush her teeth twice a day with the same paste and sometimes just applied the same in her oral cavity.

She was not aware what it contained but was definitely liking it. But now, it has caused her lesions and pre-cancerous changes are becoming prominently visible in other parts of her mouth. She will now have to undergo a major surgery where in her cheek as well as the lower jaw will have to be resected along with the lymph nodes of the neck.

This is yet another case of a tooth paste causing lesions and pre-cancerous changes. This case hints that we must understand what changes a product is causing in our body and mind. Anything unusual should be realized and stopped with immediate effect to prevent further damage to us. Any changes in the body should also be realized and screened to identify it and get it treated at the earliest so that it does not take any severe form later.

It is recommended that you screen your mouth every month to recognize any changes and get it screened immediately. Self-Care will ensure timely detection and treatment of the disease occurring in your body. Let’s try to adopt preventive care.