Ed Quits Smoking -- Day 5

This is the first in an open-ended series of videos that conveys to aspiring quitters what to expect when they stop smoking, and that likewise conveys nicotine addiction to non-smokers, so that all parties might better understand the scenario.

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• edward champion
• smoking
• quit smoking
• nicotine
• stop smoking
• day 5

[mabuse74]

You know, I just love the whole "I'll give you a pack so you can smoke up" response offered by so-called friends. To paraphrase Bill Hicks in another context pertaining to we sad nicotine addicts, do you dance in front of someone in a wheelchair too?

[ylaviv]

@ynhynh Maybe the bronchi dilate, but the exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide takes place in the alveoli. The lungs have the ability of regeneration, yet it would never be complete and surely not in 5 day time... pity but true.

[ynhynh]

Of course the amount of healing is dependent upon the amount and significance of the damage done.

[ynhynh]

@ylaviv 72 Hrs after one quits smoking their bronchial tubes become less dialated, thus allowing for a must larger intake of air. His idea that he has more energy is quite probably and definitly the case.

While your lungs won't fully go back to what they would of been like had you not smoked, the body is quite a magnificient self-reparing machine that, given time and the proper conditions, will heal itself.

[ylaviv]

Your tips are good but aren't you a bit carried away with all this extra energy stuff?

You don't get your lungs back after 5 days; infact you won't ever get much of your lungs back; whatever has become physiological dead space in your respiratory tract will stay dead. What you do get in day 5 is cleaner nostrils...

[EricRosenfield]

And here I have these free packs of cigarettes to give you...