03 Jun 09
Originally posted by Elamef37You are welcome to join the clan any day. I quit smoking after twenty years of self rolled tobacco cigarettes. I wonder what the colour of my lungs are now.
I got a suggestion : You want a pic of me chain smoking? I'll put 10smokes in my mouth. And we'll call it, 'Black Woman with Attitude' 😉😵
03 Jun 09
Originally posted by NordlysYeah, not including the full date in the correct format and relevant to the specific timezone is very timeist and insensitive!
But people are in different time zones. How do you account for that? For example, Americans might find it offensive when you switch to the 4th when it's still the 3rd where they are.
Do these people in earlier timezones think they're better than me because they go to bed before I do? Pah! Ridicilous!
03 Jun 09
Originally posted by Sushillit takes roughly two years for the lungs to completely heal from tobacco. after that they're as you had never smoked.
You are welcome to join the clan any day. I quit smoking after twenty years of self rolled tobacco cigarettes. I wonder what the colour of my lungs are now.
03 Jun 09
Originally posted by wormwoodokay, I got some real data:
not really, but I've seen a finnish doctor say it on a tv interview. could still be hearsay, there are doctors and there are doctors....
"Conclusions: The risk of cigarette smoking on total mortality among former smokers decreases nearly to that of never smokers 10 to 14 years after cessation."
http://www.annals.org/cgi/content/abstract/119/10/992
that doesn't seem to directly imply that the lungs wouldn't be clean already after 2 years though. as the cellular changes might very well take that 10-14 years to develop a cancer for example. but that's of course irrelevant if you die after 10 years of having 'clean' lungs.
that said, the overall health and thus quality of living must be much better as soon as the lungs clear, even if there's still long term effects left. maybe the doc meant 2 years until you feel totally healthy again? hard to say.