subject: Kick The Habit Can Smoking Damage Be Fixed? [print this page] The detail needing to be covered when answering this question can make a clear-cut answer difficult to attain. Everything depends completely on the exact amount and kind of damage you've caused yourself during your years of smoking.
It would usually be a lengthy period of time before a smoker starts feeling the ill-effects caused by their practice and then subsequently start asking the question "if i kick the habit, will the destruction that smoking has done to me really heal?"
It just depends; what quantity you've been smoking, for how long and what type of cigarette or tobacco you've been smoking - the amount of hurt that you've inflicted on yourself will in that case be the determining aspect on how long it'll take your body to right itself.
It is entirely possible that smoke related damage done to your body is repairable but is massively dependent on other issues that determine how long it will take for the curing process to work i.E. Your age, your general physical healthiness, your diet etc.
You just need to think common sense here really. I mean if a person had been smoking 10 cigarettes a day for a year prior to quitting. he or she will observably have suffered much less hurt than a person who spent the last 30 years smoking 40 each day.
There's also the very real permanent damage from too many cigarettes smoked over too long a time - lung damage is without doubt the most familiar type, meaning that if you've smoked way too much for way too long then the areas of your lungs damaged by smoking will simply by no means recover.
Permanent lung damage ranges from very mild to the seriously acute and is something that a sufferer will have to handle his or her whole life.
Please try not to panic too much at this point, there's also good news because rest assured you'll very definitely and very quickly notice a staunch upturn of your fitness and vitality - 2 to 3 weeks appears to be the time mostly bandied about.
Don't misunderstand this to mean that all the damage you inflicted upon yourself has now totally healed. It does mean however that at least the healing process has kicked off and is likely even a good way to completion - it can in fact take anything up to ten years for your damaged lungs to return to their before-smoking condition.
I'm pretty certain you now understand the urgency of quitting smoking ASAP if you want to give your battered body a reasonable chance of recovery and prevent enduring or potentially life-threatening destruction.
In summary; it doesn't matter how long or how much you've been smoking, you can improve your health and even though you're bound to find it a little tough at first, being able to kick the habit is much easier than you think YOU ONLY HAVE TO WANT TO!
Quitting smoking naturally, speedily, and permanently isn't and has never been about overly complicated systems and/or poisonous pills and patches - it's all about simplicity, a little bit of will-power and some genuine tried and tested tobacco-quitting knowledge.
