Smoking

[stewforrester]

Why is my breathing worse ,I stopped smoking nearly 2 yes ago

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My doc assures ( I have emphysema & asthma) me that it will improve after 5yrs off the cigs. I'm nearly 4yrs in so I'll wait and see xx

[stewforrester in reply to Hidden]

Thank u

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Maybe that's the progession of the disease and you would be much worse if you had still carried on smoking? x

[hufferpuffer]

Hello Stewforrester, have you been on a Pulmonary Rehab course? it might help if you could get on one, take care huff xxx

[jackdup]

It has been two and a half years for me and my breathing is worse as well. Seemed pretty stable when I was smoking and then after quitting it got worse. Could be coincidence but was very disappointed. I didn't expect a big improvement but did expect some and certianly didn't expect to get worse.

[eightyplus in reply to jackdup]

I can't stress this often enough, it doesn't matter how you feel, you must stop smoking. Your body will trick you in all manner of ways to keep you addicted, the cigarette companies are well aware of what they are feeding you so that you remain a lucrative client.

Sure you will feel worse for a while, did you think it would be that easy?

I smoked plain cigarettes for 51 years but smoked my last one nearly 16 years ago. I am alive because I stopped smoking, join me. don't give up now . . . . . prove that you have the strength not to be an addict and grow old along with your family.

[jackdup in reply to eightyplus]

As I said I stopped smoking two and a half years ago and don't intend to ever start agian, but as I said expected to see some benefit from quitting. I am sure there is benefit for my long term health, had just hoped I would feel some benefit, particularily in my breathing. You hear over and over how much better people feel after quitting, however I did not ezperience that.

[Puffthemagicdragon in reply to jackdup]

My breathing was ok when I was smoking. I could do everything a " normal " person could do,even amateur surfing with my daughters ( I was 60 then ! ).

6 to 8 weeks after giving up smoking I was diagnosed with very severe emphysema. Very strange and very annoying,.

[jackdup in reply to Puffthemagicdragon]

I was pretty much the same but didn't drop as far as you after quitting. I think the part I found most frustrating was I had a spirometry in 2006 and another in 2012 and they were the same in spite of me smoking those six years and then after quitting my FEV1 starting dropping. I hope it finally stabilizes and doesn't keep going down. I know I was told it should stabilize, but it was stabilized before quitting and now no longer seems stable.

[2malinka]

My breathing is a lot worse-severe emphysema and I quit smoking in 1992! The medics have no answers. Oh well, at least I am still alive.

Regards

[onamission]

I gave up over 10 years now and for the first 6 months I coughed from the time I go up till the time I went to bed then it cleared and for 3 years I stayed stable. I got the flu and that was when I went down hill and my breathing got worse have you had a chest infection lately