Coughing phlegm after quitting smoking

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' only after you quit smoking. What you describe is common after smoking cessation and not a sign of COPD or something worse. Coughing-up this stuff should begin to subside in about a month and stop in 2 to 4 months. If it does not, you should see your doctor and have a chest x-ray. It is likely that this will not be necessary. Your lungs are cleansing themselves of tar and other tobacco products.

Of late though, not right after I smoke, but about 45 minutes to an hour later I have a coughing fit where I cough really hard. I also seem to have chronic phlegm especially in the morning. I am not out of shape and in fact exercise quite often. I was wondering if there is any way to suppress the cough. I know that I should quit smoking and most likely will a couple years from now, but I am young and it seems as though I should not have such violent coughing fits just from smoking a little.

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. Several times a day would be good, even if its just a piece of fruit.

i developed alergies this after quitting smoking 4 years ago but now i seem to be coughing up yellow phlegm and wheezing .. wha t could be possible causes?

Sometimes I find it difficult to cough it up. Given that I have smoked for over 40 years, I am quite concerned. Would the symptoms I have had and am having be an indicator of COPD? Should I ask my doctor to order a chest x-ray? Thank you so much for your assistance.

The best way to improve your symptoms is to quit smoking. If you continue to smoke, you will only worsen these symptoms. Long term smoking will also place you at risk of many other diseases.

I am 23 years old, a smoker (quit about a week ago), and started with a cold about two weeks ago. After the cold symptoms went away, I developed a cough. The cough is phlegmy, with a yellowish/brown tint to it and has lasted. On a few occasions, I noticed a pen dot sized speck of bright red blood and it scared me, so I went to my doc. He asked me a series of questions, listened to my chest and lungs and said I sounded clear.

I have always coughed up brown flecks in my phlegm. But now, I have been coughing up dark grey after having some chronically infected teeth pulled. Could this be a result of the local anesthetic injections, or a worsening of the copd? I can only get rid of bronchitis for about a month before it comes back every time. Antibiotics (doxicycline) seem to have the inside of my mouth raw, with white patches on my tongue and a few white blisters in mouth, also. Now I'm on Penicillin for the teeth.

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.

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.

A throat swab and the phlegm should be given for culture and sensitivity to see what organism is causing the cough and what antibiotic may act against it. If it is viral or allergic then no culture will be formed. If it is due to air conditioning, you will have to use a humidifier. If it is due to asthma, then proper treatment will have to be done. If mold is the culprit, then you will have to get your house checked for the source and treated. Gastric reflux too could be the cause.

The cold went away and then I kept the cough. I never smoked in my life but I've had people ask me if I do or did smoke or that I sound like I have a hackers cough. I have had the EGD - and they put me on Protonex - but no cough relief. I've been to an allergist..of course like some, allergic to dust mites and molds. Took all kinds of stuff, Singular, all the popular stuff, nasal sprays, Z-pack even, all kinds of inhalers...........no break in this ****.

For the last 6 weeks or so I’ve been coughing up this very nasty tasting, thick brownish to a light yellowish color phlegm. It’s similar to what I coughed up for a while after I quit smoking but that didn’t taste this nasty. I’ve also been feeling very bad, ache all over with no energy like I’ve been down with the flu or something. I’ve also been breaking out in a heavy sour smelling sweat like it’s very hot in the room when its not.

Please look upon this as a sign that you should stop smoking. At this time quitting smoking is the most important thing that you can do for yourself! You may want to look at our Quit Smoking Topic Center at http://www.nationaljewish.org/topic/smoking_cessation.html for ways to help you smoke no more. When you are able to get yourself to your doctor ask her about other quit smoking resources in your area.

I am at work and started coughing, I realized that I started to taste blood, and when I spit what I could into a paper towel after coughing some more, I discovered that the phlegm or spit was actually pink. I blew my nose and it doesn't appear to be bleeding, and I wasn't able to cough up much more after this. But being asthmatic I am worried as to whether or not this is common or is something more serious going on?

Really worried that things won't improve or does it take quite some time after you quit?

I am a medical technologist and worked in open heart surgery so yes I know the damage that smoking can do but I also know it is hard to kick the habit.

Before this sickness started, I cleaned a room full with books and newspapers that are quite dusty. Then my throat start to itchy with flu and cough. But, the phlegm is still remained..

It is possible that your smoking is slowing down your full recovery. You may want to look at our Quit Smoking Topic Center at http://www.nationaljewish.org/topic/smoking_cessation.html for ways to help you to quit smoking. Also check with your doctor for other quit smoking resources in your area. Having a medical check up could determine if the cause of your symptoms is something other than postnasal drip, including cancer. Although cancer is unlikely from what you have described.

Hi, I recently quit smoking when I became sick back in October, and have been sick on and off to this date. I have been a smoker of both cigarettes and cannibis for years, and my father died of lung cancer in 97. Around Thanksgiving I developed a hacking cough and produced fresh blood in my phlegm.

This morning after brushing my teeth,I had to cough and then I spit out the phlegm,but I saw some blood.This has never happened to me before and yesterday I felt normal.Through the whole day I've been coughing phlegm,but it's been norma.Then when I got home and I ate,I had phlegm with blood once again.I've never had a nose blood before or any kind of problem.I don't smoke or drink because I'm way too young for that,but I don't know what I did or what happened to cause this.

According to ppl who quit smoking this is a normal thing to appear as the lungs are clearing themselves of all the gunk from when you where smoking. Any other news ?

Hi Gary, I'd like to know, I've had the coughing up phlegm after eating for the last two years, I don't drink alcohol or smoke and no doctor can fix it either. They just give me drugs that affect other parts of my body so I won't take anything now. Do you have a natural remedy. I'd like to know as would many other sufferers out there.

Mine's been going on over a year.. I used to smoke and then quit but now i'm smoking again and I don't notice it any worse. I'm up early today because I felt like i was suffocating from it. It makes me so anxious and sometimes sick to my stomach, on top of embarrassing when i "hawk" up a loogy in front of someone when I thought noone was around! Sinuses? Allergies? Acid Reflux?? Geez.. I just wish I could stop it and without insurance I haven't been able too.

Hello, i am a 29 years old female. I quit smoking 10 days ago and eversince i have been coughing up pale yellow phlegm with little brown specs in the morning. (only in the morning about a quorter size). it does not look like blood.its tiny little brown specs. i went to a pulmonologist, he have me a breathing test and i did great. I am not coughing and i do not have any shortness of breath. the doctor did not seam to have an answer for the phlegm... he told me to use a nasal spray...and mucinex.

After I finished the Zepac, the phlegm resumed being clear/white. It is now two weeks after I finished the Zepac, the cough continues and so does the phlegm. So I go and see an ENT, who does a laryngoscopy, throat culture and chest X-ray. All normal he said, although the laryngoscopy revealed "a little redness in the throa." He believes it could be acid reflux from stress, and told me to take Prilosec Over-the-Counter (OTC).

For about a year now, it feels like I have phlegm/mucus stuck in my throat and can't completely clear my throat. Also when I cough, its a lil wet and there is phlegm. When I started to have the problem, I went to the doc and he said it just may be sinuses and sent me on my way... but never went away. I went to the doc while I was in Basic Training in SC... then went to GA for 4 months... back to FL for a few months (where i use to live) and now I am in NC....

ALL 14 TESTS were normal, after smoking for 24 years, minus the months I gave it up. I wasn't ready to quit cigs til now. I believe I came to my senses in time. Great day it is to go run 4 miles! THRIVE! Jaybo33 My Pulmonary Function Analysis: (All results NORMAL) SPIROMETRY FVC: 5.37 Liters FEV1: 4.19 Liters FEV1/FVC: 78% FEF25-75%: 3.78 L/sec FEF50%: 4.62 L/sec PEF: 10.2 L/sec MVV: NA LUNG VOLUMES TLC: 7.26 Liters RV: 1.

I had hurt my rib so bad from coughing that i couldn't get a good cough out but while at clinic i coughed up nasty hard chunk stuff but couldn't at home.

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