Think about it: at eight to ten puffs per cigarette, you're popping up to 200 air sacs in a day at one pack per day. And unfortunately, that's the only tobacco-related illness that's not reversible. With each puff you take off of a cigarette, you pop those air sacs. Those are where those air sacs we talked about earlier have now burst open. Doing those same activities is much more strenuous and challenging with the smoker's lung.Īnother thing I would like to show you: in the smoker's lung there are these little porous holes. Imagine doing those with a healthy nonsmoker's lung. Now just imagine: walking from your car to the grocery store walking up a flight of stairs doing simple day-to-day activities. So I'm going to pump both the nonsmoker's lung as well as the smoker's lung. Now we'll take a moment and compare the two. The reason? It is trying to make up for the areas that have been lost due to the smoking on the right portion of the lung. So in fact, the left lung should be smaller than the right. I've been asked a really great question over the years from various patients: They'd say, "Jen, why can't you just go into surgery and have that cut out and be cleared? The problem? In more than 87% of cases, by the time lung cancer is diagnosed it's already spread throughout the body.Īnother difference you may see is how abnormal this other lobe is. Now you will see that it is pretty centralized in its location. It has completely been shut off due to the damage from all of the tar, as well as over 7,000 chemicals and toxic poisons from cigarette smoke.Īnother difference? You may notice this tumor.
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So the lower right portion of this lung is no longer taking in any vital oxygen for the body. What's the next difference that you see in comparison? This lower portion here.
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Now we'll take a moment and see what it looks like when the smoker breathes. Now you've had 20 full cups of tar that have filtered through your lungs. Multiply that by how many years you've smoked-let's say, one pack per day times 20 years. At one pack per day, in one year, one full cup of tar is filtered throughout your lungs. Why the black color? It's all about the tar. It's not that healthy pink glow of that of the nonsmoker. So the smoker's lung, as you can see, has a blackened color. What's the first difference that you notice between these two? The color. Now I'd like to take a moment and compare this to a smoker's lung. The size, the shape, the function is exactly what it should be. These little air sacs fill up with vital oxygen to carry it through the bloodstream, throughout the body, and deliver it to your various organs. When you breath, you have millions of little air sacs in the lung called alveoli.
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Let's take a moment and see what it looks like when a healthy nonsmoker's lung takes in a breath. The left side, just a little bit smaller, with two lobes. The right side is larger, and includes three different lobes.
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Your lung has two sides: the right side of the lung and the left side of the lung. The first thing you're going to see is the healthy pink color-exactly the way it should look. We will be comparing a nonsmoker's lung with a smoker's lung. Today, I'll show you the impact smoking has on lung health. I'm Jennifer Hobbs Folkenroth, Freedom From Smoking Master Trainer with the American Lung Association. Welcome to our demonstration: The Effects of Smoking on Lung Health.