If you stop smoking do your lungs start to lose the tar they had previously absorbed?

[LBoy]

My dad stopped smoking and I want to know if the tar (and other things but mainly tar) goes away

 

[ATLyssalovesMikeyway:t]

Once you start smoking, there is already damage. Some damage may be little or big. If your father quit early, then that "damage" could possibly be gone through medicines.
If you think your father had been smoking for quite some time, it's better to be sure and ask for a lung x-ray so you see if there's some bad things done. :]


Goodluck on that.

 

[vmaldia]

AFAIK the carbon particles stay for life but other non damaged cells grow and multiply to take over. In a few years his lung function will be average for a guy his age

 

[david]

they do start to cleanse themselves. if there,s any damage done, like emphysema, it,s usually permanent.