Coughing after quitting smoking

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I quit smoking 17 days ago and have since had one cold after another, plus the flu. Is this related and how long will I be sick?

After being diagnosed with Asthma I have quit smoking. When I did smoke it was about a pack every 2-3 days for about 15 years. Unfortunately since then I have had more trouble breathing and have been coughing up sputum with brownish sputum. Is this the normal process in clearing the lungs? It has been two weeks now and I am feeling a little better and the sputum seems to be coming less and less. There is less and less brown stuff as well.

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?

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.

I quit smoking since 7 months. But I frequently fall sick cough and flu. Anyobe gone through this situation.

What worked for me was smoking like a fiend one night, I mean really chain smoking. After that, I didn't want to touch a cigarette. I would occasionally get cravings, but when that happened, I would remember the reason why I was quitting- for my health! And then I would grab a piece of gum and read a book to get my mind off of it. It's tough, but you can do it. My friend tried the patch, and had no luck. He said it did nothing for cravings. Maybe you could try w/o aids?

After quitting smoking how long did it actually take you to enjoy life again? Today (after 17 days of not smoking) it seems to me that I enjoyed life more as a smoker. What do I have now? - eating, chewing gum ... and more eating ... I was just wondering, when I will enjoy life again ...

I recently quit smoking (6 wks ago), and have had an unusual productive cough. It is thick sometimes green, sometimes brown sputum with little dots or specks of brown. I would attribute this to my lungs cleansing themselves, but I am a healthcare worker with an exposure to TB (never active just positive PPD with negative Xrays which at one time showed the TB encapsulated). I am having a couple other symptoms, night sweats and fatigue. There is no weight loss, in fact I have gained weight.

I do know that early on after quitting, the mucous glands are in overdrive; smoking shuts the mucous production down, so after stopping the person sometimes has a productive cough for weeks until things settle back to normal. I don't know the value of the things you mentioned-- others?

If you have been a smoker for 19 long years then it is commendable that you have quit smoking. Cough and chest pain can be the withdrawal effects of quitting. However any chest pain in smokers—past or current should immediately be investigated. It can be due to pleural effusion, inflammation, lung cancer or due to a clot or embolus. Rebound increase in blood pressure too could be the cause. Please do not delay, and seek medical care immediately. Take care!

If i'm at work or school i don't find the urge to smoke. but after like a hard day's work or school i would smoke a stick. i would smoke more when i'm alone or socialising. Is it addiction? At times when i'm super stress i would smoke like 5 sticks in a span of an hour and then i;ll cough like a dog and have itchy lungs for like 2 days. is this type of behaviour normal??? I just want to stop it but then again like smoking one stick isn't detrimental as smoking a pack a day. know what i mean?

I'm on Triple Tx, so have hemolytic anemia, so smoking makes me more breathless.

Believe it or not about 15 years ago I woke up on New Years day with a terrible hang over and decided that I was going to quit smoking threw out all my smokes and never smoked again. I was just tired of the morning cough, the mess it made, the way i smelled, ect. Now if quiting pills was that easy....

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>.

Today is day one of quitting smoking. Already I can't sleep and I feel sorry for anyone in contact with me! I am soooo irritable and cranky, I work in customer service and I'm really having a hard time dealing with customers, they all seem to p*#@ me off even if just asking a simple question. I'm hanging on just hoping this will -pass soon. Everything and everyone is getting on my last nerve LOL. I am 41 and have smoked for 25 years.

It is common to get some of these symptoms after quitting smoking. Your lungs are expelling the residue that has built up over time. The nose bleeds may be related to blood pressure, inflammation in the nose, an upper respiratory infection or to spasms of coughing. The aching and low grade fever are probably not related and may be related to an infection which is aggravating all of the other things you have described. Quitting smoking was a wonderful and positive decision.

Bad temper, angry, headaches, nausea, irritibaility and similar are common. These are, of course, symptoms of depression too but the difference is that after quitting smoking these effects abate quickly after a couple of weeks. Not so with depression and it does not come and go with one's decision to smoke or not to smoke. That is simply an infividual's reading of what is going on for them. By the way, I smoked for 35 years and gave it up 2.5 years ago with no support. Just decided to stop.

i dont remember it all except i quit!! cold turkey and i hate it hate it hate it!!! sigh everyone that has ever smoked and quit or tried it is hard!! but, i can do it. i just need to keep very busy. that means no cocktails, cause you cant drink and not smoke!! so no snacking or gaining weight!!! oh my!!! anyone else quit recently or want to?? i just keep telling myself "oh your skin will look so nice, you will smell so good, and my son will be sooooooo happy!

Good luck to you and please do keep us posted. Chantix is how I quit smoking and I have been "quit" for 3 mths. 3 weeks & 4 days. I smoked for nearly 38 yrs. and had never quit before so I would say it is pretty amazing that I have quit! This forum is full of "chantix talk" so make sure you read up on it.

now heres where my messed up situation happens. last year i quit smoking for 6 months. i realize i wouldnt feel the best for the first few months and excepted that.but what happen was really upsetting and confusing. not only did i have no and i mean no energy i was gaining weight fast. i went to my regular yearly physical about 4 months after quitting.she then noticed that my thyroid was enlarged and did some tests. when the doc.

Yes she will tell you that you need to quit. 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.

I've always read about people have quit smoking and felt so much healthier, and I feel like since I've quit smoking I've simply opened another door of health concerns. Has anyone else experienced something like this? I've never had any sort of health issues that have onset so quickly and persisted for so long!

I quit smoking on Sunday evening after a 20 a day 14 year habit. Last night (Mon) I went to bed with the most bizarre feeling in my chest. It was like a pulse, not painful but like an extra giant heartbeat that I could feel down the centre of my chest. These increased to about 1 every minute to the point where I could feel them throughout my body. It was a little like a jolt almost like when your just nodding off and your whole body kind of jolts awake. I was scared out of my wits!!

Now that I quit I have coughing spells, 2 minutes after I eat I have a brief moment of shortness of breath, when I wake up I have a terrible headache (this is when I usually light up my first cig), when I go to the bathroom I start wanting a cig so bad (I usually light up while on the toilet). Other than all these symptoms I feel really great my I can breathe so much better and I can actually walk up 4 flights of stairs without being out of breath.

I heard that smoking while on tx can give you that riba cough - not so sure though...I coughed a little bit at first but I started drinking even more water and it went away..

I just stopped smoking 3 weeks ago now and still after really hard workouts I'm coughing like mad, almost enough to puke. I remain coughing throughout the day. Just wondering if it is more to do with the recent stoppage in smoking or if it may be something exercise related. Right after workouts it brings up a lot of fluid but then gets really dry throughout the day. Very deep cough.

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