I was a chain smoker but now started gym. How can I increase my stamina and clear my lungs.

Question

To increase your stamina you need to exercise regularly and increase the time and intensity of your exercise. While exercising it is very important to breathe only through your nostrils. Aerobic exercise is the best and pay less emphasis on weight training as such. When you smoke you damage your lungs: when you smoke more you damage your lungs more: and if you smoke less you damage your lungs no less – well maybe a little less. The tobacco tar in cigarette smoke lines your lung with huge patches that make that portion dysfunctional. Your oxygen carrying capacity is jeopardized, and breathing is impinged upon. But don’t be discouraged because it is not too late even now to reverse all the ill-effects of smoking. I don’t know what other organs could be damaged but do go for a thorough medical check up to assess the effects of your abuse. Regarding improving your lungs, do a lot of aerobic exercise breathing through your nostrils only. Then there are a lot of deep breathing exercises in Yoga which you can learn too. Deep breathing cleanses your system and lungs and restores it to good health. Deep breathing uses the 80% of the lungs which are not normally used in normal breathing and even when exerting yourself. The greatest effect is in the lungs because this substance is processed through the respiratory system directly through the lung surface. You should start vigorous exercises, gradually increasing it over a period of time. Do deep breathing exercises every time you feel like smoking (try Yoga), and replace the oral urge with some healthy food substitute to satiate the need.

Saul Pereira · Accepted Answer

To increase your stamina you need to exercise regularly and increase the time and intensity of your exercise. While exercising it is very important to breathe only through your nostrils. Aerobic exercise is the best and pay less emphasis on weight training as such. When you smoke you damage your lungs: when you smoke more you damage your lungs more: and if you smoke less you damage your lungs no less – well maybe a little less. The tobacco tar in cigarette smoke lines your lung with huge patches that make that portion dysfunctional. Your oxygen carrying capacity is jeopardized, and breathing is impinged upon. But don’t be discouraged because it is not too late even now to reverse all the ill-effects of smoking. I don’t know what other organs could be damaged but do go for a thorough medical check up to assess the effects of your abuse. Regarding improving your lungs, do a lot of aerobic exercise breathing through your nostrils only. Then there are a lot of deep breathing exercises in Yoga which you can learn too. Deep breathing cleanses your system and lungs and restores it to good health. Deep breathing uses the 80% of the lungs which are not normally used in normal breathing and even when exerting yourself. The greatest effect is in the lungs because this substance is processed through the respiratory system directly through the lung surface. You should start vigorous exercises, gradually increasing it over a period of time. Do deep breathing exercises every time you feel like smoking (try Yoga), and replace the oral urge with some healthy food substitute to satiate the need.

Sanjay Khanna · Answer

U should go for morning walk and jogging. Do pranayam.

Saranya Devanathan · Answer

Dear Ajitesh,
Congratulations for stopping smoking. That itself will increase your stamina. Since your lung is clogged with so many cigarettes' smoke, it takes time to clear.  It will definitely clear if you do not restart smoking. So continue to motivate yourself not to smoke. Work out in gym as much stamina as you have. Slowly you will increase gym and energy level. You are young and you can do it.
Since i don't know how many cigarettes you were smoking and for how long, i can not say the time of clearing lungs. Roughly i will say 3-6 months.
Remember that nicotine from cigarettes reach brain and activates it within seconds. The oxygen in atmosphere goes through lungs and blood before it reaches brain. So it takes longer time.