The lungs are your windows to the air around you. It enables you to breathe in fresh air that can nourish the millions of cells inside your body. Healthy lungs have bronchioles and air sacs where the process of respiration can take place. Respiration involves breathing in fresh air in the form of oxygen to sustain the normal metabolic processes of the body and breathing out to get rid of the carbon dioxide which is a waste product of cell metabolism.
For the process to take place perfectly, the lung passages must be clean and free from debris that can affect the respiratory process. When you smoke, toxins and chemicals are drawn into the lungs. If you are a heavy smoker, the normal “cleaners” of your lung passages known as “cilia” will be damaged. Once the cilia are damaged, there will be impairment in the normal cleaning process of the lung passages. Over time, toxins from cigarette smoke begin to accumulate and there will be congestion inside the air passages.
Once you have decided to quit smoking, you can help clean your lungs by taking food supplements and vitamins that can help get rid of toxins and flush these toxins out of the lung passages. You have to support your lungs to hasten the cleaning and the process of regeneration.
