Can smoking lower your oxygen?

Question

Can smoking cigarettes lower your blood oxygen or whatever? My mom has been smoking a long time and she went to the doctor and apparently her Oxygen level was 82.

Also, what are good ways to bring oxygen up without using a machine/inhaler?

Answer 1

Indeed smoking depletes blood oxygen,. It does so by nicotine attaching itself to red blood cells, replacing oxygen, on its ride to nicotine receptors in the brain. With an oxygen saturation of 82%, I am afraid you mom is definitely facing using inhalers and IPPB machines, possibly even oxygen. The most positive thing she can do is stop smoking NOW and ask her doctor for literature on COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease). There are breathing exercises she can do that will help. Her doctor will have phamplets describing these exercises.

Answer 2

An oxygen reading of 82 is really low but normal if she is a 30 year smoker at a pack or two a day. Yes cigarettes bring your oxygen level down b/c over years your alveolar which exchange the co2 and 0xygen in your lungs become so expanded by smoking they just quit working. Normal oxygen readings are like 98 to 100

Answer 3

What they are referring to is the oxygen levels in her blood. Smoking does decrease the levels. Oxygen machines and inhalers would do nothing..she should quit smoking or at least cut way back

Answer 4

Yes, smoking cigarettes lowers your blood oxygen. It prevents the lungs from absorbing oxygen as well as the lungs of non-smokers.

The only way to improve her blood oxygen level is for her to cut down/stop smoking. In a matter of years her lungs will improve almost to the point of a non-smoker's lungs.

Answer 5

Smoking damages your lungs, therefore limiting the amount of oxygen that can be absorbed into the blood stream. A good way to help raise your O2 levels would be to stop smoking.

Answer 6

Yes, smoking is bad for your blood oxygen. It damages the red blood cell and allows it to hold less oxygen which means blood has to be pumped faster so sufficient amounts of oxygen are supplied to vital organs. And what's even worse, there's no way to reverse the damage of blood cells. So i say, tell your mum to stop smoking now if she wants to be healthy.

Answer 7

It constricts your blood vessels. So less blood flows through the body and therefore less oxygen. Also the tar in the lungs inhibit oxygen from passing into the blood stream.

Honestly not much you can do other than lower/stop smoking.

Answer 8

It does lower your blood oxygen level. I used to play squash and found (as a smoker) that it was good for my game to not smoke at least 45 mins before I played.

Answer 9

yes smoking has many fatal effects and lowering oxygen is one of them. A good way to bring oxygen up would be to limit the smoking, the best way? to stop it altogether

Answer 10

Not only does it lower the oxygen on your blood stream it also damages the lungs to the point they no longer can take in the oxygen your body needs to live...