Over my many years in
practice I have seen just about everything that can happen, health
wise, to smokers and have listened to them as they would
describe their symptoms to me.
The human body can
protect itself and eventually recover from many severe and emotional
problems relating to smoking .However, after about 20 years the body
begins to lose the ability to do this and to defend itself
against the dangerous chemicals that suppress the immune system.
The immune system is
the first line of defence against these terrible infections and
diseases and without this ability to defend itself the way is open
for very catastrophic illnesses.
On the next page is
chart of what can happen to the body over 20 years.