It's never too late to quit: stopping smoking reverses lung cell damage

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Smokers can effectively turn back time in their lungs by kicking the habit, with healthy cells emerging to replace some of their tobacco-damaged and cancer-prone ones, a new study shows.

Smokers have long been told their risk of developing diseases like lung cancer will fall if they can quit, and stopping smoking prevents new damage to the body.

The body appears to to draw on a reservoir of healthy cells to replace smoke-damaged ones in the lungs of smokers when they quit "People who have smoked heavily for 30, 40 or more years often say to me that it's too late to stop smoking — the damage is already done," he said in a statement issued by the institute.Some of the people in the study had smoked more than 15,000 packs of cigarettes in their life, he said.

 

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So keen. Any of you try hypnosis? I've heard good things.

Even 🌿🌿🌿

I should stop smoking starting from this Saturday, coz this is a bad habbit

Yes I did it n nothing feels good than quitting.

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