Why does smoking make it harder to breathe when you run?!
Question: Why does smoking make it harder to breathe when you run!?
I know the obvious that your putting smoke in your lungs!. But my girlfriend argued with me that smoking doesn't affect your breathing while running!. When I was a smoker i could barely run a mile!. Now that i don't smoke i can run 5 miles easy!. She said why would it make it harder!? And really i had no answer besides smoke go in your lungs!? So if someone could explain this better i can prove her wrong haha!. thanks!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
Answers:
The tar and other particulate matter clog up your alveoli!. The alveoli are tiny little 'air sacs' in your lungs!. That is where the oxygen is transfered to your bloodstream!. When they get clogged up the oxygen transfer is less efficient and you have to breathe harder making you 'out of breath'!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
because it really damages your lungsWww@Answer-Health@Com
you need your lungs for air when you breath, but when you smoke it destroys your lungs!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
You need to find a smarter girlfriend!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
because the smoke gets trapped in your lungs and you get less air and breathing harder is how your body reacts to lack of air!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
well basically, when you smoke, ur filling ur lungs not only with cigarette smoke, but tar from the cigarettes builds up in your lungs!. the tar makes it harder for you to take in air because tar takes up a lot of room in your lungs, not to mention the fact that its sticky!.!.a lot like street tar!.!.oh one of the many wonderful chemicals (there are over 2, 500 chemicals) in a cigarette!.!.so yes it does affect your breathing!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
emphysema (a disease where the chemicals in tobacco smoke severely damage the lining of the lungs, and make it difficult to breathe)
all smokers have a degree of emphysema
If you have degraded lungs, you can't get enough oxygen into your blood system/muscles!. So you have less energyWww@Answer-Health@Com
all smokers have a degree of emphysema
If you have degraded lungs, you can't get enough oxygen into your blood system/muscles!. So you have less energyWww@Answer-Health@Com
because smoking damages your lungs!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
Smoking screws up your lungs!. Since your lungs are a bodly organ!.Www@Answer-Health@Com