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Yoga Practice Help To Quit Smoking And Improve Lung Capacity

Will Yoga Help Me Quit Smoking

Smoking is very harmful to your health and has several ill effects. For most people who smoke it is still a very difficult habit to quit. But yoga helps with it as it makes you more aware of every part of your body, which in turn helps you to listen to your body and will tell you what is good and what is bad for it. You will feel the difference automatically after you start your yoga practice and then very gradually your body itself will repulse you to the habit of smoking. Yoga comprises of different techniques like asanas or poses, pranayama, breathing techniques and meditation that slowly but surely detoxify your body and help you to quit smoking. Besides daily practice of yoga asanas, breathing techniques and meditation also protect you from the severe withdrawal symptoms that most people experience when they try to quit smoking. Yoga helps to strengthen your lungs, increases and improves your lung capacity and thus it helps to restore the health of your lungs and body that has been damaged due to smoking. Yoga gives you the control of your body and mind so you can be more relaxed and breathe easily. The following yoga asanas or poses will help you to quit smoking:

• Sukhasana Or The Easy Pose: This asana or pose is so called because it is the easiest of all the asanas or poses. It is generally used during meditation and will help you to slow down your metabolism, straighten your spine, open your hips, will keep your mind steady and will promote inner peace.
• Anulom Vilom Or Alternate Nostril Breathing: This asana or pose is useful as it helps the brain to function at its best and also calms the nervous system and the mind.
• Shavasana Or The Corpse Pose: This asana or pose appears like a very simple pose but it actually needs a lot of concentration that you can gain, by practicing it daily. When this asana or pose is done correctly it helps you to relieve stress and fatigue, overcome nervousness, relieve constipation, treat asthma, indigestion, diabetes and sleep disorders.
• Ardha Matsyendrasana Or The Half Spinal Twist – Most of us generally bend our spines backward and forward but to make our body totally flexible we need to twist it laterally as well. This asana or pose will help to tone your ligaments and spinal nerves. It will also help to boost your digestion.

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