{"id":88665,"date":"2026-05-04T08:36:24","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T08:36:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=88665"},"modified":"2026-05-04T08:36:24","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T08:36:24","slug":"is-it-true-that-your-lungs-regenerate-when-you-quit-smoking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/05\/04\/is-it-true-that-your-lungs-regenerate-when-you-quit-smoking\/","title":{"rendered":"Is it true that your lungs regenerate when you quit smoking?"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA22kZs3.img?w=534&amp;h=427&amp;m=6\" alt=\"Illustration: Becky Barnicoat\/The Guardian\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It used to be thought that the lungs couldn\u2019t regenerate,\u201d says Dr Charlotte Dean, head of the lung development and disease group at Imperial College London.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/health\/medical\/is-it-true-that-your-lungs-regenerate-when-you-quit-smoking\/ar-AA22kZs7?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=69f854e36d4b48fc84172b77e08778ce&amp;ei=35\">,<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>It used to be thought that the lungs couldn\u2019t regenerate,\u201d says Dr Charlotte Dean, head of the lung development and disease group&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":61681,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-88665","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/smoking-lungs.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88665"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88666,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88665\/revisions\/88666"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}