For smokers and former smokers: 6 ways to clean and revitalize your lungs

The best way to avoid most chemicals, GMOs, artificial sweeteners, high-fructose corn syrup, excess sugar and poor-quality salt, is to eliminate junk food, processed foods and sodas. Reduce meat, avoid dairy products and gluten to reduce excess mucus. Also add ginger, onions, garlic and cayenne pepper to help remove excess mucus.

Do more outdoor exercise, away from traffic if possible. Breathing exercises like this can help to strengthen lung tissue. Yoga offers some of them, and there are others as well.

2) Eliminate chemically perfumed toxic products from the detergents, cleaning products, bleach and chemically perfumed “air fresheners”.

There are many indoor fragrances without chemicals available in natural product stores, and you can also make them with essential oils. The same applies to cosmetics and body care products. Only buy products without aluminium and parabens, but it is still better to prepare them yourself.

If you have a garden, do not use commercial pesticides because they are toxic: they emit gases or caustic vapours that irritate the lungs. There are alternatives that are not toxic to humans and animals.

3) Improve indoor air, which may be even worse than the outside air. Try replacing the carpets with other floor coverings or at least often vacuum and steam. Beware of furniture or fireproof clothing. Flame retardants emit carcinogenic gaseous effluents. Formaldehyde is also found in the paints and many of the house's materials. And it’s also good to know that a law that takes a few years to allow building materials to include about 2% of nuclear waste.

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