Cilia
This video is about cilia, the tiny hairlike projections that help keep the lungs clean, that are impaired and eventually destroyed by smoking, but begin to quickly repair after quitting.
Read Smoking's impact on the lungs for a detailed picture and slide description of how inhaling cigarette smoke destroys cilia.
Within three days of quitting smoking, cilia start to regenerate and usually within 6 months the normal cilia function is returned. Also over time, the extra layers of cells will be sloughed off and the lining tissue of the bronchus will return to normal.
To continue to heal the damages caused by your past smoking, and to avoid all future damages smoking would have continued to inflict on your body, always remember to Never Take Another Puff!
Below is a postcard I sent out to my smoking clinic graduates in lieu of one of the monthly follow-up letters sometime in the 1990s:
A postcard from a smoker's cilia:
Miss you, wish I were there.
Just a little cilia message from Joel
Never take another puff!
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