New to this site.

[Spikex1x]

 Would just like to introduce my self. I have COPD. I'm on Oxygen for 16 hours a day, I have stopped smoking for three weeks, after forty odd years. but I haven't felt any better. In fact I feel worse. Will this improve ?     

[Titchy52]

Spikex1x   yes it will definitely get better I gave up in 2003 took me a while to feel better but you will improve your smell and taste will come back its a lot healthier for your lungs please don't give up  Kathy x

[Spikex1x in reply to Titchy52]

Thanks Kathy this is the longest I have packed in for and I have done it could turkey. Its just that I have just got over a chest infection, and I seam to be more dependent on my Oxygen since I packed the fags in.

[Titchy52 in reply to Spikex1x]

It might be a coincidence uve caught an infection the same time u gave up cigs I hope u wil stay of them good luck x

[Spikex1x in reply to Titchy52]

Thanks Titchy will do mate.

[hufferpuffer]

Hello Spike, nice to meet you 😁 I think stopping smoking effects most people that way...it will take time but you will feel better for not putting poison into your body, I don't think I would still be here if I hadn't stopped. 😁 huff xxx

[y_not]

Hi spike, you'll gain a sense of taste, lose the smell of smoke, exercise harder (with pockets full of cash) and get your shape "redefined" well, I did - something to do with food suddenly tasting good!

It took years for you to get properly addicted so, please, give it a few more weeks - like everything, its worth waiting for!

Good to meet you!

[Magpuss]

You've done well so far so, stick with it - things do get much better! It just takes a while for your body to clear out all the gunk the nicotine leaves behind. Keep up the good work and - good luck to you.

[Junegirl03]

Hi nice  to meet u I'm new (well was off for few yrs and returned this week) this site helps a lot even just getting your thoughts out there xx

[diesel12]

Hi I'm quite new too, it will work for you, you just have to be a bit patient. You'll be fine here and get a lot of support not to mention a few laughs too. Welcome xx

[robots457]

Yes it will get better, I smoked 40 a day for 43 years I stopped 12yrs ago. keep at it !!

Good luck.

[casper99]

Welcome to the board Spike and keep up the good work. You won't feel the benefits yet, your doing great_!!! xx

[Damon1864 Volunteer]

welcome to the site,yes please don't worry it will improve. After years of smoking your body needs to readjust it's self to having no nicotine. I had the same problem,but so pleased istick to not smoking,I feel so much better now.

[Sheilab123]

Well done on quitting Spike, like you I didn't feel any better for stopping to start with, but I'm sure I wouldn't have been here now had I not! Welcome to the site, just jump in, always someone around with advice sympathy, humour xx

[Dedalus]

Welcome to the site Spike.

[Catnip]

Greetings   Look at it this way, Spike...  Your body has had 40+ years of expecting (and getting) lots of crap shoved into it; suddenly, it's gone.  Your body's saying "Oy, whatchadoing????"

What you're doing is making your body's life absolute hell so you're almost bound to feel worse.  That's the bad news.  The good news is, once you're over the initial craving for those fags, once you've coughed your guts up, once you're starting to see daylight at the end of that tunnel, you'll start to feel better. 

Don't know how you've managed to smoke and be on oxygen though; they aren't a good pairing (boom!).  Mind you, I still get cravings for a fag; I try to run upstairs and am instantly cured of the craving.  Not that I can actually move, you understand (I'm on LTOT as well) - but sudden exercise works wonders for cravings

Hang in there -- you will feel the benefits, promise!!

Catnip

[romfty]

Keep going Spike,  Oxygen and fags don't mix anyway...............however the cravings don't go away............. sometimes I am like the Bisto kids when I pick up the distance smell of a fag in the air...........good luck.

[Spikex1x]

Thanks for all the reply's, Funny thing is I haven't had the cravings, The Steel works closed down near me last year. And when I had my breathing test at the Doctors the nurse noticed a slight improvement in my breathing. So I'm hoping for a big improvement with out the fags. Thank you for all the support . I think if the truth be told this is probably the first time I have wholeheartedly stopped.