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06-16-2017 01:01 PM |
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Originally Posted by ShiftyEyedWaterboy
(Post 12919232)
I've heard a lot of stories like this. Its amazing how well the body can heal itself. I can breathe and smell better at the 15 day mark. My complexion seems to be getting a bit better, too.
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If you have smoked for years, especially if after 30, significant damage has been done. Yes, the body has some amazing restorative properties, and quitting no matter the age is always fantastic.
Think of it this way.
As we age, our ability to rebound, rebuild, repair, and restore becomes more inefficient and ineffective.
Smoking is taking life's clock and on a cellular level advancing the tempo just a tiny fractional degree of even a second. The longer you do it, the more it compounds- which you can see a rebound in lung health when people do quit. The older you are and engaging in smoking the effect has a more significant toll on the body. Again, restorative lung health and functionality comparisons between young people who quit smoking and older people confirm this.
A brilliant doctor was lecturing on the future of human health and the reality of average life expectancies to balloon well into 120 and older. His point was that oncology and specific, isolated treatments were not just novel advancements needed, but fundamentally imperative for future generations. Why? Because the nature of cancer. If you are going to be living significantly longer, then the inevitable reality is that occurrence of cancer will become commonplace & rather matter of fact for upwards of 95% of the population. The longer an organism is sustainably active the degree of probability of mutation hits 1.
Sorry to wander off topic, but I guess it's a paradox of life to get older and see what things in retrospect that were simple little tweaks one could have made that you now see the longterm and lasting benefits.
Quitting smoking, and even if you replace it with vaping, is probably one of the top things that you can do to significantly improve your health and life.
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