How Your Liver And Lungs Look From Smoking And Drinking

[MikelArteta]

I've never smoked anything and have had like 5 cuos of alcohol in my life

 

[swag johnson]

I went the last year drinking damn near everyday and just stopped last month. God knows what my liver looks like

 

[1thouwow]

YOLO

 

[plushcarpet]

true true... but dying from lung cancer is not quick ad it's not clean

dying from depression is even slower

 

[Hades]

Can you lungs and liver repair itself if you stop the use or is the damage irreversible?

 

[Mr Rager]

I went the last year drinking damn near everyday and just stopped last month. God knows what my liver looks like

I know

 

[jdubnyce]

Have kids n smoke brehs

3 months cigarette and nicotine free

 

[Slaimon Khan Shah]

Common Sense 101.....

Smoking seriously damages your lungs in several important ways. It interferes with your lungs’ natural cleaning and repair system. Smoking destroys the tiny hairs known as cilia that line the upper airways and protect against infection. Normally, your airways have a thin layer of mucus and thousands of cilia. The mucus traps the tiny particles of dirt and pollution you breathe in, while the thousands of cilia move like a wave to push the dirty mucus out of your lungs. When you cough, swallow or spit up mucus, the dirt leaves your lungs.

Because smoking destroys cilia, the dirt and pollution stays in your lungs, along with chemicals from cigarette smoke. This gunk in your lungs can put you at risk for developing lung cancer, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), chest infections and chronic cough.

Smoking also damages the air sacs, or alveoli, in the lungs, which makes it difficult to breathe. The alveoli at the ends of your airways are like little stretchy balloons. When you breathe in, the alveoli help absorb oxygen, and when you breathe out, they help get rid of the waste gas, carbon dioxide. When you smoke, the alveoli become less stretchy, so it’s more difficult for your lungs to take in oxygen and get rid of carbon dioxide. As alveoli are destroyed, the lungs transfer less and less oxygen to the bloodstream, causing you to feel short of breathIf you’re a smoker and you feel any of the following symptoms, you are experiencing signs of lung damage:

• feeling out of breath when you walk up a short flight of stairs
• coughing
• spitting up mucus
• repeat chest infections

See your doctor right away for help in quitting and treating your symptoms—if you don’t, these symptoms will just keep getting worse.


Alcohol's Effects on the Body

Drinking too much – on a single occasion or over time – can take a serious toll on your health. Here’s how alcohol can affect your body:

Brain:
Alcohol interferes with the brain’s communication pathways, and can affect the way the brain looks and works. These disruptions can change mood and behavior, and make it harder to think clearly and move with coordination.

Heart:
Drinking a lot over a long time or too much on a single occasion can damage the heart, causing problems including:

• Cardiomyopathy – Stretching and drooping of heart muscle
• Arrhythmias – Irregular heart beat
• Stroke
• High blood pressure

Research also shows that drinking moderate amounts of alcohol may protect healthy adults from developing coronary heart disease.

Liver:
Heavy drinking takes a toll on the liver, and can lead to a variety of problems and liver inflammations including:

• Steatosis, or fatty liver
• Alcoholic hepatitis
• Fibrosis
• Cirrhosis

Pancreas:
Alcohol causes the pancreas to produce toxic substances that can eventually lead to pancreatitis, a dangerous inflammation and swelling of the blood vessels in the pancreas that prevents proper digestion.

Cancer:
Drinking too much alcohol can increase your risk of developing certain cancers, including cancers of the:

• Mouth
• Esophagus
• Throat
• Liver
• Breast

Immune System:
Drinking too much can weaken your immune system, making your body a much easier target for disease. Chronic drinkers are more liable to contract diseases like pneumonia and tuberculosis than people who do not drink too much. Drinking a lot on a single occasion slows your body’s ability to ward off infections – even up to 24 hours after getting drunk.

Thanks @Medicate satan and his followers don't want you to post this Lol!