Health For Everone Q&A Men’s Health

What can men who like to smoke eat to detoxify their lungs?

Asked by:Gemma

Asked on:Mar 31, 2026 02:10 PM

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  • Sleipnir Sleipnir

    Mar 31, 2026

      Smoking poison 1: Decreased content of selenium that prevents cancer

      Countermeasure: Eat foods rich in selenium

      Research shows that smoking can lead to low levels of selenium in human blood, and selenium is an indispensable trace element for cancer prevention (trace element food). If selenium is deficient in the body, the intestinal, prostate, breast, ovary, and lung cancer and the incidence of leukemia will increase. Therefore, smokers should often supplement foods rich in selenium, with sesame seeds, malt, mushrooms, and garlic recommended first, followed by eggs, yeast, tuna, and finally animal livers, kidneys, etc.

      Tobacco poison 2: Excessive oxidizing substances

      Countermeasures: Supplement vitamins (vitamin foods)

      Smoking will quickly deplete the antioxidants and vitamins stored in your body, and the oxidative substances in your body will increase accordingly. If not replenished in time, it will cause peroxidation. Therefore, smokers especially need to supplement antioxidant vitamins, such as carotene, vitamin C, vitamin E, etc., especially vitamin C, which is a water-soluble vitamin, also known as "ascorbic acid", which can effectively avoid peroxidation and reduce smokers' urge to smoke. In order to supplement these vitamins in daily life, you should eat more fruits and vegetables and less meat to create an alkaline physiological environment in the human body. Raw carrots and cucumbers, in particular, are rich in antioxidant vitamins. At the same time, you should also pay attention to appropriate supplements of vitamin B, calcium and magnesium, which can help relieve stress and reduce anxiety and insomnia during the smoking cessation process.

      Smoking poison 3: Toxins remain in the body

      Solution: drink tea

      Some compounds in smoke can cause the intima of arteries to thicken, significantly reduce gastric acid secretion, and increase blood sugar (blood sugar). Tea contains tea polyphenols, coffee Alkali, vitamin C and other ingredients can decompose these substances, and can also use the diuretic effect of tea to reduce the residence time of poisons in the body.

      Smoking poison 4: Cholesterol and fat accumulate in the body

      Solution: Eat foods that lower cholesterol

      Because smoking can increase the amount of cholesterol and fat deposits in blood vessels and reduce the blood supply to the brain, it can easily cause brain atrophy and accelerate brain aging. Therefore, you'd better eat less fatty meats containing fatty acids, and correspondingly increase some foods that can reduce or inhibit cholesterol synthesis, such as beef, fish, soy products and some high-fiber foods, such as chili powder, cinnamon, and the shells of fruits and vegetables.

      Smoking poison 5: nicotine

      Countermeasure: Eat alkaline foods

      When human body fluids are alkaline, smokers' absorption of nicotine can be reduced. You can eat more fruits, vegetables, soybeans and other alkaline foods to reduce the absorption rate of nicotine. At the same time, these alkaline foods can also stimulate gastric juice secretion, increase gastrointestinal motility, and avoid indigestion, bloating and bloating that are more common among smokers. Hyperlipidemia The occurrence of embolism.

      In fact, smoking is really not a good thing, although some of the effects of tobacco can be offset by the above foods. healthy There are negative effects, but years of smoking will definitely form a bomb in the body, which will explode one day. So please pay attention to the dangers of smoking, read the "Ten Sins of Smoking", and learn "Tips to Quit Smoking". It is difficult to quit smoking alone, so join a "smoking cessation circle" and there will be a group of people working hard with you.