I smoked a pack a day for 5 years , an quit about a month ago because it was possible i would loose my job because of it. I still have smokers cough, worst then when i was smoking!! When does it stop??
By the way, its amazing how much you can smell after you quit, I would highly recommend it. I'll tell ya...its a bitch for about the first week but it gets ALOT easyier!!

 

Good on you for quiting! As for the cough, I bet I will be some time, lots of junk in your lungs that your body is trying to get out.

 

When you finally hack up a handful of tar.

 

I quit May 26th of this year. I dont have a cough nor did I ever have cough. But I agree with the smelling thing. I can especially smell a smoker after they come in from a cigarette break. THEY STINK!

 

It will take a while. Your sense of smell will continue to get better. To the point when you walk past someone who does smoke, you can smell the smoke off them an find it really stinks, bad. Any more I have a tough time being in elevators with smokers. I quit in 93 after 21 years of 2-3 packs a day.

 

Your body is ridding itself of all the crap that has built up in your lungs for all these years, it will take a while.

 

Once the tumor is bigger than the lung itself.

 

Your smoker's cough is worse now because you have stopped smoking. In a basic nutshell it is because of the following. The smoking paralyzes the cilia in the trachea and lungs. One of the cilia's function is to move foreign bodies from inhaled particles from the lungs or trachea back out (expel). Cilia and coughing work synergistically in removing the foreign material. basically its just removing all that tar from years of smoking. It may stop next month or may not stop for a year. Also smoking paralyzes the mucous secreting cells of the upper respiratory tract and of the type 2 alveolar cells (secrete surfactant) of the lungs. And surfactant is secreted on the surface of alveoli to modify the surface tension. The more optimum the surfactant ratio is the better oxygen to carbon dioxide exchange ratio.

I hope this helps but I don't have much time to go more in depth because I've got several exams and midterms next week, among other things.

 

ok yea what he said ^ anyway I just came down off of a 2 pack a day 16+ year habit and I had a real bad cough for about a week week and a half and now its gone but everybody is diffrent and you may take several months to get all the gak out of your system.

 

Good job quitter!!! I quit too, smoked for 10 yrs and I'd say within a few months, it's like you never smoked at all. You clean out pretty quick. It will come Ray, oh yes, it will come.

 

I need to quit

Especially after reading about what smoking does to you ^^^.

Problem is, if I quit I'll more than likely gain weight, and I'm already a tad overweight.

I don't want to be a lardass.

 

Check out http://www.planetfitness.com/

If there's one in your area it's only $10/month, no contract, no cancellation fees. There's no good reason not to!

- NCSU

 

To be quite honest, I'm 6'3" 200pounds. For the most part in good shape, When i quit i gained about 10-15 pounds. I would recommend not going cold turkey like me (i kinda had to so thats why i did) if i were you i would try "chantix" ask your Dr. about it, a friend of mine who smoked 2 packs a day for nearly 15 years quit with chantix, after everything else failed (gum, patches, ect..) an he said he doesnt even crave them anymore. I dident get chantix because my insurance dident cover it an to be honest its a bit pricey without insurance covering it. Wish you the best



Thanks ALOT man, that was very informative. You should be a doctor

 

Your welcome. I'm actually ending my first year of my doctorate studies in physical therapy. Its the same basic stuff as med school just a different spin on it.

 

Glad you quit.
Now do you know why the rest of us non smokers push for city wide smoking bans?