Find out how to rid your body and lungs of toxins that have accumulated in your body as a result of many years of smoking.

1. Cleanse Your Body and Lungs from
Cigarette Toxins after Quit Smoking
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2. Introduction
• There is no doubt about the fact that smoking
does a lot of damage to the body and some
organs like the heart, lungs and liver. Smoking
cigarettes exposes your body and lungs to toxins
like tar, nicotine, arsenic, carbon monoxide, and a
lot of other poisonous substances. And even
though you may have kicked the smoking habit,
these chemicals still inhabit your bloodstream.

3. Natural Ways to Cleanse the Body
• They still call the shots in your life (anything
that controls your blood, controls your life).
• Cleansing them out is highly necessary for you
to stay quit. Having them in your blood stream
could trigger strong cravings that can cause a
relapse. Below are some simple but natural
ways to rid your body, lungs and liver of these
toxins.

4. Water
• The power of water is often underestimated but
it flushes out nicotine from your body speedily.
Drink plenty of clean water; 8-12 glasses a day is
ideal. If you can do more than that, it’s still okay.
For variety, you can add a bit of lemon or lemon
juice. Lemon also cleanses your system of
nicotine. Drinking lots of water daily boosts
kidney activity and accelerates the elimination of
toxins. Water also prevents you from getting
constipation due to your increased fiber
consumption.

5. Garlic
• Despite its pungent smell, garlic is extremely
useful in cleansing your body of nicotine and
other poisonous substances. This is because garlic
cloves are made up of allicin, a substance which
helps in clearing the lungs. You can cook with
ground garlic cloves, eat it raw and even add it to
your vegetables and meat. I wouldn’t subscribe to
garlic supplements, extracts or tablets, it’s better
if you use the natural garlic, not the processed
one.

6. Cranberry Juice
• In my article on designing your stop smoking
strategy, I mentioned cranberry juice. In this
article on cleansing your body from the effects
of nicotine and other harmful chemicals,
cranberry juice is again coming into the
picture; only that this time, you should mix it
with orange juice and drink daily

7. Cranberry Juice(2)
• . It will greatly assist your detox or cleansing
process as both juices are laden with
antioxidants that battle free radicals. Aside
this, cranberry juice empowers the liver to
digest fat with more efficiency and contains
arbutin, an element which acts as a water pill
and draws out toxins to be passed out.

8. Fruit and Vegetable Juices
• Still talking about juicing and juices, I’d like to say
juicing defends and protects you from all sorts of
diseases connected to smoking. Without leaving
your house, you can create fresh fruit and
vegetable juices with your blender and juicer.
Fresh citrus or apple juices are good choices
alongside black currant juice. Carrot juice is
suggested as a vegetable juice, as well as beet or
asparagus juice. These should be freshly prepared
juices so the body can get maximum nutrients
from them. These juices assist to clear nicotine
out of your body speedily.

9. Exercise
• Exercise daily. In an earlier article, I mentioned
why you should start exercise before you quit
smoking and even after quit smoking, maintain
your exercise regimen because exercise makes
you sweat and sweat releases the toxins that
have made your body home due to smoking.
Exercise also burns up the nicotine in your system
and boosts your body’s metabolism rate. It raises
body temperature and supply of oxygen. It also
keeps your immune system working perfectly.

10. Green Tea
• Green tea is an inhibitor or antioxidant which
fixes the harm caused by free radicals and
prevents cancer from years of cigarette
smoking. For best results, drink 3 or more
cups of green tea daily. Other types of tea:
white, lemon and peppermint tea are also
effective in purifying your body system.

11. High Fiber Foods
• High fiber foods can also get rid of all the
toxins that have invaded your body as a result
of years of cigarette smoking. Eating foods
high in fiber will help you cleanse your colon
and prevent colon cancer. High fiber foods
include raw green leafy vegetables, beans,
carrots, cabbage, brown rice, asparagus, kale
and peas. Organic vegetables, fruits and whole
grains are also good sources of fiber.

12. Healthy Diet
• A healthy diet is also essential to cleanse your
body and maintain good health. Make sure
you consume a chunk of green leafy
vegetables, berries, apples, nuts, sunflower
seeds, fruits, and beans. Also, stop consuming
refined and processed foods. Get fried foods
out of the way. As much as possible, avoid
soda, caffeine, sugar and alcohol.

13. Vitamin E and C
• Smoking robs your body of essential vitamins like
vitamin C, so drinking orange juice and eating
fruits that contain vitamin C will help restore your
body back to normal health and well-being.
Smoking also depletes your body’s supply of
vitamin E but eating a lot of dark leafy vegetables
like spinach, collard greens and kale will help
restore it. Essentially, vitamin E will help defend
your cells and organs from the harm done by
smoking and nicotine unwholesomeness.

14. Ginger
• Ginger can assist the body to sweat.
Perspiration in turn releases toxins from the
body system. It also clears out the lungs after
quit smoking. It can be used to make fresh
natural ginger tea. It can also be added to your
salads and foods. I don’t believe in ginger
tablets or capsules. Ginger is better used in its
natural form. Another ingredient that
operates like ginger is cayenne pepper.

15. Juice Fasting
• You can speed up the expulsion of toxins from
your body by fasting on juice. Be sure to
consult your doctor or dietitian before
embarking on this. And even when you get the
go-ahead to fast, don’t do it for more than 2
days.

16. Rest
• Find time to rest. No matter how busy you
are, make out time to rest your body and
mind. This will make your body cleansing
process holistic as it will complement the
repair and cleansing work being done by the
fruits, vegetables and water you are
consuming as well as the exercise you are
doing daily. Rest because it assists the body
healing process.

17. 5 Things to Consider Before Starting a
Body and Lung Cleansing Program
• Beware of detox programs! If I had my way, I’d
say you should not go for any detox program
because a number of them are ineffective and
even dangerous. Utilize the home-made cleansing
ingredients mentioned above.
• Strict cleansing diets are unnecessary! It amazes
me when people want to lose weight and they
are made to go through strict and unhealthy diet
regimens. Due to the fact that the diets are not
right, they lose the weight, only to gain it back in
ten-fold!

18. 5 Things to Consider Before Starting a
Body and Lung Cleansing Program(2)
• What I’m saying in essence is: a complete body
and lung toxin cleanse should be a bettering and
gentle process. There is no need for detox diets
that have no place for food or diets of one type of
fruit or vegetable for a period of 5-7days! These
diets are totally unhealthy as you are merely
robbing your body of the nutrients it needs to get
back to shape. Remember to give your body the
essential nourishment it needs! Go for an
enhancing, gentle and sustained detox diet.
Never go for a crash diet. You don’t need it.

19. 5 Things to Consider Before Starting a
Body and Lung Cleansing Program(3)
• Drink water as if it’s going out of fashion! Or
should I say, drink water like a fish because the
entire detox or cleansing process depends on
water to be successful.
• Say a permanent bye-bye to foods containing
poisonous substances and consume foods that
will give your body the essential vitamins and
nutrients it needs to get back to good health.

20. 5 Things to Consider Before Starting a
Body and Lung Cleansing Program(4)
• A successful body cleanse begins and ends in
the mind. In an earlier article, I had
mentioned that stop smoking starts with a
shift in your thinking. Interestingly, a body or
lung cleanse also begins in the mind because
you have to be mentally prepared for your
detox. The greater your level of mental
preparation, the greater your level of success.

21. 5 Things to Consider Before Starting a
Body and Lung Cleansing Program(5)
• Convert your cleansing time to meditation
time; connect with your inner-self and
appreciate the beauty of the moment. Aside
meditation, practice deep breathing for at
least 15 minutes a day during your detox. The
fresh air you bring in will greatly assist the
lung cleansing process.

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