When is this cough going to stop...

[nsd_user663_22435]

...blurgh. This started about 3 weeks into the quit as a slight feeling of needing to just cough & now is a full blown smoker's cough...in fact, it's worse than when I smoked! Odd....and after my post about vivid dreams and serotonin, I woke my poor husband up by shouting in my sleep...poor sod nearly kakked himself as I never talk in my sleep! :eek:

[nsd_user663_54332]

...blurgh. This started about 3 weeks into the quit as a slight feeling of needing to just cough & now is a full blown smoker's cough...in fact, it's worse than when I smoked! Odd....and after my post about vivid dreams and serotonin, I woke my poor husband up by shouting in my sleep...poor sod nearly kakked himself as I never talk in my sleep! :eek:

Annoying isn't it?

Mine hit just after Christmas, so around the 3 week mark too, and was really bad (coupled up with a chest infection) it lasted for around 2 weeks at it's worst (as in coughing into a bin liner bad) then faded away.

Quitting the e-cig set it off again and I've got a smoker's cough to an extent still - enough for people to ask if I've started smoking again.

Odd 'cos apart from a tickle chucking 20+ fags down my lungs every day didn't make me cough much but stopping them, wow it's like my lungs are getting revenge on me :/

I've heard it can last for up to 9 months.

[nsd_user663_57259]

...blurgh. This started about 3 weeks into the quit as a slight feeling of needing to just cough & now is a full blown smoker's cough...in fact, it's worse than when I smoked! Odd....and after my post about vivid dreams and serotonin, I woke my poor husband up by shouting in my sleep...poor sod nearly kakked himself as I never talk in my sleep! :eek:

Hi Sophie, it's awful, but it just shows that your lungs are repairing themselves and getting rid of all the gunk! I too had a cough that started about 2 weeks into my quit and turned into pleurisy (a bit like pneumonia). I'm still coughing 8 weeks on, but nothing like I was while smoking!

Hang in there it will get better!

[nsd_user663_22435]

Hmmmm....it's a tad alarming. I phoned a friend I hadn't spoken to in a while & she actually said I sounded a lot worse than when I smoked! Time for the homeopathic remedies, methinks!

[nsd_user663_22435]

Hoping so, Max...each quit I did before the cough came early & went relatively quickly. My family have said if it's still there next week, they're dragging me to the quacks! Also going to try some Rhodiola to boost the Seratonin levels during the day (that should stop my poor brain from overdosing on it at night...hopefully, it'll give me a break from the dreams!) If it works, I'll be a happy, fluffly bunny instead of a psychotic, raging buffalo