Stop smoking

[Joujou9]

I quit smoking when I was diagnosed that mean about ten days and I have shortness of breath. Do you think with time when smoking stops, my breathing will improve

[Joujou9]

Thank you i hope you stay well I wish I had stopped smoking before but it was not too late to improve my health

[hypercat54]

Yes it should. When you stop smoking you are stopping the irritation in your lungs so the little hairs there can get back to their work of clearing our lungs. This causes the breathlessness and often a bad cough.

There is a very good quit smoking site on here so why not join it? You will hear from lots of other quitters and tips too. x

[Joujou9 in reply to hypercat54]

Oh thank you for your explanation this make sense. I will join the group now

[hypercat54 in reply to Joujou9]

Good they are a fount of info on there! I will be rejoining as soon as I get myself to quit again. x

[Tetrazzini]

YEs, yes and yes again.

[Ergendl]

It took about 6 months before my lungs were completely clear of all the gunge after stopping smoking. But what a difference that made.

[Joujou9 in reply to Ergendl]

Actually I know that there is a difference but there are some people who have stopped smoking and did not progress disease and others progress disease but in any case it would be dangerous to continue smoking

[Johnem in reply to Joujou9]

You will also feel mentally better for quitting. Knowing that you have succeeded will give you a sense of pride and confidence. Also, it won't do you any harm to calculate how much cash you have saved over 12 months either, put it into a seperate account and treat yourself every so often.

[Corin1950]

YES IT WILL. When I was trying to give up years ago someone said to me to regard it as the BEST present you’ll every be given. It certainly helped me to stop and it’s absolutely 100% correct.

Stick with it

Corin

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[fenty]

I stopped smoking well over a year ago after being told I’d probably got lung disease,a few months on after investigations it was confirmed I had copd(emphysema)I’m glad I stopped smoking,i think it was one of the best things I’ve ever done but the damage is done,even though I’m on things to help me breathe I’m still getting infections,I’m on my fourth already and always have rescue meds at home,I’ve had the pneumonia vaccine and am ready to start a pulmonary rehab course and I’ve come to realise my lung is damaged beyond repair and I’ve just got to try to make the best of the rest of my life,i certainly think stopping smoking has stopped things from getting worse quicker but the thing I feel most is that I’m chuffed to bits that i was able to quit smoking,it’s something i now realise i should have done years ago but I never started smoking with any intention of getting any form of lung disease even though i knew the risks,starting smoking in the 1970s was readily accepted unlike today where it’s known smoking is one of the main causes of lung disease,I want to live a bit longer now hopefully but I know the damage is done.

[Joujou9 in reply to fenty]

Actually, none of us smoked for the intention of getting sick. We enjoyed it, but we knew we would get here because we smoked from the ground. Now we were all saying we would not get anything, but now it's too late to do nothing but stop smoking. Slows disease progression. I wish I had stopped it before I got the disease

[fenty in reply to Joujou9]

I’m with you on that and with hindsight I’d have done the same but back in the 70s you were sort of encouraged to smoke,i can remember going to the doctors with my mum a time or two,looking after 5 children was hard and stressful for her,as it was for mothers back then,and the doctors saying things like “ go home,relax,have a cigarette and a cup of tea and you’ll feel a lot better” so i was brought up in an era where smoking was totally acceptable,there’s little wonder we smoked,seeing our elders do it just seemed to make it even more acceptable,i do wish though I’d have stopped years ago knowing now what i didn’t fully know back then,it’s hard to stop but when it’s a genuine reason to do so it can be done,it was one of the hardest things for me to do but what I consider the best thing is that my grandsons won’t have to see me smoking whatsoever,hopefully that may help them not to smoke at all,as I wouldn’t like to think a few years down the line that either of them both would have to be told that they have any form of lung disease.