Thirty nine years smoke free

[ivorsmile]

Anyone reading this, believe me, I'm 75 years young and after quitting 39 years ago and taking responsibility of my own health, I keep fit (exercise) at least four days a week and not eating any junk food & never using sugar, apart from what is naturally in food. I reckon it'd be pretty hard to find someone my age more fit than me. This isn't a brag, just an insight into quitting smoking, the sooner the better & feeling like a healthy 40 something year old.

Edited January 11 by ivorsmile
Grammar

[jas007]

On 1/11/2024 at 3:48 PM, ivorsmile said:

Anyone reading this, believe me, I'm 75 years young and after quitting 39 years ago and taking responsibility of my own health, I keep fit (exercise) at least four days a week and not eating any junk food & never using sugar, apart from what is naturally in food. I reckon it'd be pretty hard to find someone my age more fit than me. This isn't a brag, just an insight into quitting smoking, the sooner the better & feeling like a healthy 40 something year old.

That’s pretty good.  I quit 50 years ago.  It took me three or four or five tries, but I finally got it right.   
 

One of my good friends, an old college roommate, supposedly started smoking because he was around me when I used to smoke. I quit a few years later, but he never quit until recently, when he discovered he had lung cancer. I’m not sure what the prognosis is for him.  He had surgery' but the cancer came back and he’s now undergoing immunotherapy.

[GammaGlobulin]

On 1/11/2024 at 3:48 PM, ivorsmile said:

Anyone reading this, believe me, I'm 75 years young and after quitting 39 years ago and taking responsibility of my own health, I keep fit (exercise) at least four days a week and not eating any junk food & never using sugar, apart from what is naturally in food. I reckon it'd be pretty hard to find someone my age more fit than me. This isn't a brag, just an insight into quitting smoking, the sooner the better & feeling like a healthy 40 something year old.

 

As one ages, and if one continues to smoke tobacco products, the inhalation of CO can cause even more noticeable loss of energy by displacing oxygen in the bloodstream, than for younger smokers...IMHO. CO binds very strongly, and more strongly, to hemoglobin than O2

 

Therefore, even if one is not worried by adverse long-term health effects of smoking, just the increased oxygen level in the bloodstream, when not inhaling carbon-monoxide, provides great benefits.

 

 

https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Mitochondrial-effects-of-CO-poisoning-Under-normal-conditions-hemoglobin-Hb-binds_fig3_349119811

 

 

This is why it is NEVER too late to stop smoking.

There are amazing benefits...just 3 days after puffing on the last coffin nail.

 

NOTE:  As everybody knows.... The Mitochondria is the Power-House of the cell..... (haha....yet true)

 

 

Edited July 22 by GammaGlobulin

[it is what it is]

This isn't a brag, just an insight into quitting smoking,

 

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