Embarrassing question but.......

[nsd_user663_5342]

Hi All - I am on day 16 cold turkey and finding that some days i feel great and others I have the headaches and heart palps again...its all a bit hit and miss, but what I was wondering is when do you start to cough up the yuk stuff in your lungs - I have had no coughing symptoms at all only the occasional sore throat. I have smoked for 20 years, 10-15 a day,

i expected to be coughing up a lung by now - any advice?? Chris

[nsd_user663_4121]

Hey Chris,

I smoked 18 years and after quitting never coughed up anything........ there are many different symptoms when we quit but we don't necessarily experience all of them. Don't worry about it is my best advice.......... your lungs are healing, that's for sure, so it's all good. Congratulations on getting to day 16! Well done

[nsd_user663_3282]

Chris,

Well done on 16 days. I like many others quit CT. Smoked for 31 years and been stopped for 21 months (well, it'll be 21 on the 10th) and never coughed up anything either.

It seems it's not a strange and isolated experience to not cough up phlegm.

Hang in with your days of ups and downs and post either ranting or supporting and pretty soon you'll be way down the road of becoming a non smoker.

Cav

[nsd_user663_3170]

Glad you asked this question Chris, as I was wondering the very same thing, where does all the crap in your lungs go?, I had smoked for 16 years and have had no coughing or phlem either? SO is all of the rubbish dispersed in to other parts of your body? I know your body will heal with time and do you lungs ever return to the state of a non-smoker?

Fay x

[nsd_user663_4149]

Hiya Chris. Same here, smoked for 53 years, been stopped now for over 7 months and coughed hardly anything up. Did have a pathetic little cough for a few weeks but that was it. Another thing, nothing has tasted any different, but smell is better with nasty smells eg toilets lol. David

[nsd_user663_4786]

Ok here goes, the scarred and dead lung never recovers, however lung funcation returns to close to normal after a varing amount of time (depends on age amount smoked etc). Trapped carbon (black bits on lungs) never clears.

If you don't have lung cancer when you quit the risk of lung cancer returns to normal after a few years.

Sorry i don't have all good news for you, but i think it is best to know the truth and the truth is we are all healthy and wealthy and less smelly than when we smoked.

OH is open to answering (via me) any questions you may have, though as i said he is not a lung doctor, he mainly deals with broken bones and poorly knees.

These are only general answers to general questions and if you have any worries go and see your GP.

hope this helps

[nsd_user663_3170]

Thanks Bev, guess they will never be the same again, not all good news but at least they aren't getting any worse now Ive stopped poisining them

Fay x