Efficacy of Diaphragmatic Proprioceptive Neuromuscular Facilitation on Functional Capacity and Pulmonary Function in Heavy Twenties Smokers

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Although research on the health risks of e-cigarettes is still limited, there is increasing evidence of debilitating lung disease and general immune dysfunction from e-cigarettes, leading to various infections. Moreover, there are concerns that e-cigarettes can cause general impairment in life functions and more importantly lung function .Although exercise can help quit smoking and reduce relapses .However, exercise has many other fitness benefits when done regularly for the general population, as well as for smokers. Exercise has been shown to help with smoking cessation, which has been an important factor preventing many smokers, especially younger people, from quitting. Breathing exercises, especially diaphragm exercises improves lung function, lifestyle and health risk factors and thus the risk of developing many chronic diseases. Both aerobic interventions and exercise can reduce the incidence of many of the prevalent cancers initiated by smoking, such as lung cancer. This is important because lung cancer is the most common type of cancer worldwide, and cigarette smoking is responsible for up to 90% of lung cancer cases worldwide.

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