If you have never heard of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (which is otherwise known as COPD), you might be well advised to at least look up its full range of symptoms. But if you do not have the time to go and check out the entire thing, all that you really need to know about COPD are the dual facts that it is completely preventable (through not smoking in the first place), and that it is represented within your body as the inability to breathe properly. So since breathing is a very important activity for a living person to do, you might want to avoid building yourself a tragedy and simply stop smoking. But if you require a little bit more convincing, we can talk about how COPD actually affects a person’s body, and what it is really all about. While there is no guarantee that it will be enough to get you to quit smoking, it will at least give you something to think about.
For one thing, smoking essentially coats the inside of your lungs in a variety of chemicals, which are held very securely in place over the receptors which take in the oxygen for distribution through your blood stream through the tar which comes out of a cigarette. This tar literally covers the insides of your lungs, rather like you were bathing in a tar pit in real life. And when it gets to a certain level of thickness and coverage, breathing suddenly becomes different, and you produce an abundance of phlegm. Unfortunately, there is no cleansing out this problem.
In time, if it becomes severe enough, the effort that it will require to breathe will max out the amount of flexibility that your lungs can sustain. After all, they do not have muscles within themselves, and are merely shaped by your rib cage and diaphragm. If your lungs should ever happen to fail, it will be the death of you. And to think, it would be a completely self inflicted death, rather like some demented form of suicide where your head was dunked in tar.