Some updates and comments on smoking, quitting and living after smoking with COPD.

Tags: Copd, Quitting Smoking

Some updates and comments on smoking, quitting and living after smoking with COPD.

Tags: Copd, Quitting Smoking

I used to think it was just me, but air quality is in the toilet. If I still smoked I don't think I could get enough oxygen to survive from the air outdoors today. It's even worse indoors with our sealed up houses with no ventilation.

I just wrote an article about enhancing the quality of the air we breathe. Check it out.

One of the key issues one must address when dealing with breathing disorders like copd is staying active. By controlling the indoor air quality with an air purifier you have taken a first step in the right direction. Now you must push yourself to exercise not only your body but your pulmonary system and your cardiovascular system. Before copd this was important. With copd this is mandatory.

No exercise, lose control of your weight, even harder to exercise etc. This is the apathy spiral with leads to death. Avoid it. Exercise.

Post some comments. Maybe we can help each other.

Tags: Air Purifier, Apathy, Blog, Blogging, Breathing Disorders, Cardiovascular System, Copd, Exercise, Indoor Air Quality, Money, Multi Media Course, Oxygen, Pulmonary System, Simpleology, Spiral, Step In The Right Direction, Toilet, Traffic, Ventilation

I used to think it was just me, but air quality is in the toilet. If I still smoked I don't think I could get enough oxygen to survive from the air outdoors today. It's even worse indoors with our sealed up houses with no ventilation.

I just wrote an article about enhancing the quality of the air we breathe. Check it out.

One of the key issues one must address when dealing with breathing disorders like copd is staying active. By controlling the indoor air quality with an air purifier you have taken a first step in the right direction. Now you must push yourself to exercise not only your body but your pulmonary system and your cardiovascular system. Before copd this was important. With copd this is mandatory.

No exercise, lose control of your weight, even harder to exercise etc. This is the apathy spiral with leads to death. Avoid it. Exercise.

Post some comments. Maybe we can help each other.

Tags: Air Purifier, Apathy, Blog, Blogging, Breathing Disorders, Cardiovascular System, Copd, Exercise, Indoor Air Quality, Money, Multi Media Course, Oxygen, Pulmonary System, Simpleology, Spiral, Step In The Right Direction, Toilet, Traffic, Ventilation

If external factors are all about the quality of the air we inhale, then the upper respiratory tracts is all about the quantity of air we inhale. What I mean here is that when we get:

• swollen nasal cavities
  
• sinus infections
• allergies
• infected adenoids
• allergic reactions which clog up our nasal cavity with phlegm.
• poor air quality causes inflammation in our nasal cavity.

I mean anything which restricts or constricts our breathing passages, we have reduced our ability to bring oxygen to the alveolus for exchange with the carbon dioxide in our blood. We must strive to enhance any good factors and minimize or eliminate any negative factors in our upper respiratory tract.

• nostrils
• nasal cavity
• pharynx
• larynx

More discussion in this article.

Whether it is quality or quantity, if you want to fight a breathing disorder like copd, then you had better resign yourself to minimizing the negative and enhancing the positive factors.

Tags: Allergic Reactions, Allergies, Alveolus, Breathing Disorder, Breathing Disorders, Breathing Passages, Carbon Dioxide, Copd, External Factors, Inflammation, Nasal Cavities, Nasal Cavity, Negative Factors, Nostrils, Oxygen, Poor Air Quality, Sinus Infections, Upper Respiratory Tract, Upper Respiratory Tracts

If external factors are all about the quality of the air we inhale, then the upper respiratory tracts is all about the quantity of air we inhale. What I mean here is that when we get:

• swollen nasal cavities
  
• sinus infections
• allergies
• infected adenoids
• allergic reactions which clog up our nasal cavity with phlegm.
• poor air quality causes inflammation in our nasal cavity.

I mean anything which restricts or constricts our breathing passages, we have reduced our ability to bring oxygen to the alveolus for exchange with the carbon dioxide in our blood. We must strive to enhance any good factors and minimize or eliminate any negative factors in our upper respiratory tract.

• nostrils
• nasal cavity
• pharynx
• larynx

More discussion in this article.

Whether it is quality or quantity, if you want to fight a breathing disorder like copd, then you had better resign yourself to minimizing the negative and enhancing the positive factors.

Tags: Allergic Reactions, Allergies, Alveolus, Breathing Disorder, Breathing Disorders, Breathing Passages, Carbon Dioxide, Copd, External Factors, Inflammation, Nasal Cavities, Nasal Cavity, Negative Factors, Nostrils, Oxygen, Poor Air Quality, Sinus Infections, Upper Respiratory Tract, Upper Respiratory Tracts

What do I mean by external factors? What defines the air before we inhale it. The condition or age of our body has nothing to do with these external factors yet these external factors definitely affect our ability to delivery oxygen to the blood and eventually to our tissues and organs.

There really are five external factors:

1. Elevation from sea level
2. Air pollution
3. Temperature
4. Humidity
5. Wind

These are discussed in this article.

There will be several posts and articles on breathing disorders as follows:
-external factors
-inhaling
-breathing exercises
-the trade
-distribution
-the second trade
-distribution
-the third trade
-exhale.

My interest here is totally self serving. I have copd which you know if your have read other posts. I am looking for a recovery strategy.

To date, the medical establishment does not believe that there is a cure for copd. Breathing disorders of which copd is a major player, are the fourth leading cause of death in the USA. No cure.

By the way, the main cause of copd is, how did you guess, smoking cigarettes. Once again big Tobacco dodges the responsibility for the human flotsam it's toxic product leaves behind. Perhaps someone should publish the pictures of all the major shareholders in big Tobacco and their families and children. Let all the victims of big Tobacco know which private schools and fancy subdivisions were paid for with their lives.

I have run across an interesting product while attempting to alleviate the symptoms of copd. It delivers oxygen in short blasts when needed. Personal Portable Oxygen

Tags: Air Pollution, Breathing Disorders, Cause Of Death, Copd, Elevation, External Factors, Leading Cause Of Death, Medical Establishment, Organs, Oxygen, Private Schools, Recovery Strategy, Sea Level, Shareholders, Short Blasts, Smoking Cigarettes, Temperature Humidity, Tissues, Toxic Product, Trade Distribution

What do I mean by external factors? What defines the air before we inhale it. The condition or age of our body has nothing to do with these external factors yet these external factors definitely affect our ability to delivery oxygen to the blood and eventually to our tissues and organs.

There really are five external factors:

1. Elevation from sea level
2. Air pollution
3. Temperature
4. Humidity
5. Wind

These are discussed in this article.

There will be several posts and articles on breathing disorders as follows:
-external factors
-inhaling
-breathing exercises
-the trade
-distribution
-the second trade
-distribution
-the third trade
-exhale.

My interest here is totally self serving. I have copd which you know if your have read other posts. I am looking for a recovery strategy.

To date, the medical establishment does not believe that there is a cure for copd. Breathing disorders of which copd is a major player, are the fourth leading cause of death in the USA. No cure.

By the way, the main cause of copd is, how did you guess, smoking cigarettes. Once again big Tobacco dodges the responsibility for the human flotsam it's toxic product leaves behind. Perhaps someone should publish the pictures of all the major shareholders in big Tobacco and their families and children. Let all the victims of big Tobacco know which private schools and fancy subdivisions were paid for with their lives.

I have run across an interesting product while attempting to alleviate the symptoms of copd. It delivers oxygen in short blasts when needed. Personal Portable Oxygen

Tags: Air Pollution, Breathing Disorders, Cause Of Death, Copd, Elevation, External Factors, Leading Cause Of Death, Medical Establishment, Organs, Oxygen, Private Schools, Recovery Strategy, Sea Level, Shareholders, Short Blasts, Smoking Cigarettes, Temperature Humidity, Tissues, Toxic Product, Trade Distribution

I quit smoking. Give me a break.
That's what I thought was going to happen, I was going to catch a break. No more nagging, no more hiding, no more leaving a building and catching a smoke in the rain or cold. No more cough in the morning...
For years people told me that I could get my lung capacity back in a few weeks or a worst months. All I had to do was quit smoking.
That BS has got to rank up there with the other two great lies:

• checks in the mail
• something about male and female relations

Now we have a third, just quit, your lungs will be back to normal in a couple of weeks.

The lung specialist took great pains to explain to me the science of COPD. Basically it comes down to this: when I was smoking my lung capacity deteriorated much more rapidly than a non-smoker. Now that I have quit, my lung capacity now deteriorates at the same rate as a non-smoker but, and here's the big but, the capacity I lost during my smoking years can never be regenerated.

Why don't they put that on the side of a cigarette package. "Every cigarette you smoke decreases your lung capacity for LIFE!" "Go ahead, smoke. But you had better enjoy it, because you are trading a drag on a cigarette for your ability to catch your breath for LIFE."

I see come interesting ads on TV and elsewhere which attempt to educate people about the hazards of smoking. It is never said plainly enough. Smoking is a decision from which there is no appeal, no mulligan, no do-over. Once you smoke, you limit your quality of life for life. The only remaining question is how much do you limit your quality of life.

Quit. Quit for you, not for anyone else. Do it yourself, find help. Do something. I am making a journal with posts to this blog in which I will document my battle with the after effects of smoking and quitting smoking. These include:

• difficulty breathing
• difficulty catching my breath after minimal exercise
• weight gain
• difficulty sleeping through the night
• malaise
• deteriorating physical fitness
• lack of energy, drive or purpose - apathy.

Post some ideas, let's find a solution for all smokers and ex smokers. First quit, then recover your capacity to breathe. With capacity to breathe comes exercise, then fitness and weight loss, and then choices for your quality of life.

Tags: Breathing Difficulty, Checks In The Mail, Cigarette Package, Copd, Cough, Difficulty Breathing, Drag On, Exercise Weight, Hazards Of Smoking, Lung Capacity, Lung Specialist, Lungs, Malaise, Minimal Exercise, Mulligan, Physical Fitness, Quitting Smoking, Sleeping Through The Night, Smoker, Weight Gain