coughing after quitting smoking

Hello. I've quit smoking for 3 weeks now after 32 years of smoking. I am using the patch and my doctor put me on zyban when I saw her sept 5 because I couldn't stop crying. The crying has gotten better I feel terrible. I think I'm obsessed with my breathing to the point where I feel it all the time. My chest feels tight. I feel myself inhaling all the time. I've been to the emergency room twice now in two weeks. Chest films taken. They put me on high does prednisone for.

Ask her for help to manage quitting. I quit after almost 40 years, used the patch. I used it for almost a year. I just kept cutting the patch in half, then fourths, eights, and so on......I still miss them at times, but have not had a bad cold since quitting. Best of luck.

Could the pain in the solar plexus related to the weight-gain, exercise, coughing and not smoking? I have also had a LOT of acid reflux lately and am under a HUGE amount of stress...I wonder if I have an ulcer too? Anyhow, any feedback would be great!

A few of my friends who had quit a while back warned me that I would be coughing horribly after I quit. Now I am a little worried because I haven't coughed period. Is something wrong with me because I don't cough any? I have noticed many differences since I quit..food tastes better, I can smell things more clearly but no coughing.

I quit smoking 3 months ago, after 38 years of smoking. I still have a clear productive cough. I think it may be chronic bronchitis. My question is - does chronic bronchitis ever improve or go away or do have this cough to look forward to forever?

Is all of these symptoms normal for quitting smoking? I havent started the horrible coughing stage yet but my lungs do feel like stuff is loosening in them. Sort of like bronchitis. Does anyone know when that will start as well?

Well anyways im getting a bad cough and its causing a sore throat. I read online that this is caused by quitting smoking cause ur body is healing and what not. Well just curious if any other former smokers went through this and how long it lasted. Does cough med help in this situation? I cant sleep its so bad. Coughing up phlegm every few minutes its soo annoying especially since i just got over a cold... I only have 4 wks left til my c section and just want to feel better by then.

But, it could also just be a combination of your cough hanging on and quitting smoking has aggravated it. I waited to start coughing up phlegm when I quit, but it never happened, even though I had a serious smokers cough. It is common for an increase in appetite, however, I have been fortunate that this didn't happen to me. Just the fact you have lost your appetite tells me that MAYBE you still have some sort of lung infection. Please try to force yourself to eat a little more.

ANd one more question I used to cough before stopping smoking, but strange thing happened I stopped coughing immediately after I stopped smoking am not coughing for 6 days , did not cough even once? Why it happened like that , You have mentioned that people who stop smoking develop a cough till lungs are all cleared up.

I know many including myself have had a terrible time with coughing and heavy chest for months after quitting....theres alot of mucous that has to be loosened up and expelled, I know for those few months my breathing was alot worse after I quit(temporarily) than it was when I smoked...but again I stress only for a 2-3month period than that all seemed to settled down to where my lungs felt much much better.

It is great that you are quitting smoking....Some people experience more of a cough when they do quit smoking as a result of their cilia returning back to normal in their lungs. Cilia is responsible for sweeping debris and other junk out of the lungs, cigarette smoke paralyzes their action so everything essentially remains in the lungs.

After every time I eat anything I begin coughing until I get the phlegm out of my throat. It is always clear, but it is quite thick. This has been going on for 4 to 5 years, but it didn't used to be so bad. It used to happen only after I ate spicy food or food that was really hot. Now it happens after everything that I eat. I do not seem to have any other symptoms. I do smoke about 1 pack every 2 weeks, so not that often, but i do.

s probably due to quitting smoking which was about the same time ago. I quit many years back and coughed also but it hurt a lot when I did. Inhalers my M.D. gave me did not work neither did cough medicine so I tried oriental medicine herbs and I stopped coughing. I didn't start taking the herbs right away but after taking it and stopping coughin the process of my cough lasted about a month. I have started to take herbs again but it is not working.

Its one of those if you dont use it, you lose it scenarios. Quitting smoking is the number one thing you can do to help yourself and depending on the amount of damage done, will depend on treatment going forward. I was diagnosed with moderate copd 3 years ago. I quit smoking and have NO cough now and try to stay active. I was given inhalers but do not use them as I am as scared of them as I am the disease itself and do not want to become dependent on them.

I need to know if this is normal, maybe just my body's way of clearing everything out. I quit smoking when I found out I was pregnant four months ago. I'll still occasionally have a puff or two but that's few and far in between. Since about the second or third week post quitting I started coughing up this weird white/gray phlegm that has a terrible, bitter acrid taste that coats my mouth and back of my throat almost like an oil. Similar to bronchitis sputum but not green or yellow.

I am 39 years old and was a light smoker most of the time, chain smoker on weekends, and smoked weed every second night... Being a closet smoker, I only smoked at night (roughly 3 smokes per night during the week and wide open on the weekends). I quit smoking all smoke products (Cigs/Weed) over 2 months ago and am still experiencing lung issues today. I have a pretty steady cough with phlegm only discharging in the mornings.

I found out I was pregnant as a smoker and smoked for about 3 days after because just quitting cold turkey is hard. But after three days I felt so guilty and like I was killing my baby I just stopped. I bought a bunch of candy to suck on and stopped hanging around the smoke crowd and going on "breaks" at work. It was weird st first but k care about my baby too much to be are kless.

Of course, stopping smoking would help the most, but you have had no success in that area. Maybe once he gets more comfortable at reducing the coughing he will think about quitting.

On 09th June i quit smoking. Initially for 2-3 weeks there was coughing with phlegm coming out. Now i am in 8th week after quit smoking. Now days i have throat pain while swallow and rarely phlegm coming out (no cough). Along with that slight cold (but not continuous). There is slight body pain from on yesterday. Before i used to breath through mouth. But from on last couple of weeks i trying to practice to breath through nose. Yesterday i found some while particle on palatine tonsil.

So I finally got my first labs done after my I-131 treatment. Of course they said it'd take 2 days for the results (sigh). But right now, I'm trying to figure out if this new feeling is a part of the thyroid dying or if it is something completely unrelated. First off, I've been a smoker on and off for 8 years. Pack-a-day habit. Last week I was coughing up quite a bit of gunk, so decided to go see my primary. He whipped out his stethescope and took a listen.

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I cut down smoking in march haven't bought a pack since then cut down to one cig a day ( with vape) however I was up to two packs a day in the last 1 1/2 years but it used to not be that bad my throught hurts a little bit but I also have dry mouth and I smoke a vape which I believe might put some tension on my throat. I haven't had a cig in a month and I'm going to get off the vape.

I don't know if any of this is related to quitting smoking or if it could possibly be STD related...please read all of this, but that's what I'm hoping is the answer. I stopped smoking around 2 months ago. I smoked for 20 years, about 1-1 1/2 packs per day. I noticed that I was having some chest pains and had occasional bouts of lightheadedness and went to the Dr. On May 3, they took blood, gave me an ekg and chest xray and almost all came back normal.

m just concerned after seeing some blood in my sputum, and since my lung pain has persisted for 3 months now. What is going on? I had been attributing this all to quitting smoking cigarettes. Is it my continued weed smoking?

I am excited that I have quit smoking for 4 months now. However, prior to quitting I never really had trouble breathing. When I first quit I felt great. Now all of sudden I am wheezing and I feel like I can't get enought air. My chest is extremely heavy. Why is this happening? Will it go away? Why did it start after I quit? This discussion is related to <a href='/posts/show/287896'>Difficulty with breathing and gasping for breath</a>.

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