Can exercise help me quit smoking?

Can exercise help me quit smoking?

Smoking cessation, or quitting smoking is a very, very challenging thing to do, and there's no one treatment that works for everybody. So what you want to do is you want to use several different techniques, and one of those is exercise. You will occupy your time, it will help motivate you, you will feel better physically. Often, when people quit smoking, they feel much worse before they actually feel better, so part of treating that would be an exercise program. There's also healing that has to happen in the lungs because of the damage that is done by smoking. We want to promote the healing of your lungs, and you can smoke a certain amount for a certain number of years and still be able to reverse that damage that has been done in your lungs, and part of that would be exercising. An aerobic exercise program within your physical abilities, if you are limited because of your breathing, then you'll have to do a progressive exercise program, and this is something a physician can help you design - how do you start out, and how are you going to build your physical abilities, given your lung capacity limitations.