i get pains in my chest and i have a cough th... - Quit Support
i get pains in my chest and i have a cough thats dry feels like i have phlegm to come up but it wont could this be smoking related
Hi Celticrod, I am Jillygirl I would imagine your problem is from quitting, but the best person to ask is Claire one of the advisors they are so helpful. If you read through some of the past questions and blogs you may find it helpful.
I too have a dry cough which like you I feel its phlegm but wont budge. As for the chest pain I would get it checked with the doctor just to be on the safe side. Claire will probably want to know when you stopped smoking and how many a day you smoked. sorry not much help but nice to meet you and well done on quitting. 
Please join our community as we all find it really helpful and we have a laugh at the same time. see you later.
Hi Celticrod, welcome to our lovely online stop smoking community. Here you will meet plenty of other people who are going through the same as yourself and you may find that most things you experience are pretty normal in your journey to staying smokefree 
Depending on where you are upto with stopping smoking, your dry cough could most certainly be to do with stopping smoking. There is also a breathing exercise that we recommend that can help you with 'coughing up what's not supposed to be there'
Follow this link and it'll take you there;
quitsupport.healthunlocked....
As Jillygirl has already said, if you are concerned about your chest pains, please get them checked out by your GP.
Just so I can get a full picture of how things are for you before I know what advice to offer you, can I just ask a couple of questions first?
How long have you actually stopped smoking for?
How long were you been smoking for?
How many each day did you smoke?
Have you ever stopped smoking before, if so how long did you stop for and did you use anything to help you to stop?
Staying positive along the way is the biggest thing you can do to help yourself, remembering that nobody says it's going to be easy, but everybody who does it says that it was worth it
i've not stopped smoking yet, just trying to. I smoke roughly 20 a day, This is my first time trying to quit
Hiya celticrod, Andi here. I had a friend who was complaining about a cough last year. She thought she might be allergic to something, saw the doc, got pills etc but nothing seemed to work. This year she decided to quit smoking - probably 20+ a day - and her cough very quickly went away! She used some kind of nrt pills via smokestop via the gp I think. She still found it tough and had a couple of blips along the way but thinks she's well on the way to being completely smokefree now.
Myself, I'd never tried to stop before (55 with a 20-30 a day habit) but did it cold turkey. The best thing I did was find and join this community - I'm certain I wouldn't have managed otherwise.
Whatever you decide to do (and whenever) we'll always be here to help you so good luck.
Andi
Hi again Celticrod,
depending on how you see things, or even how you are feeling - stopping smoking can be either quite daunting or quite exciting. Obviously it is better for you if you can be in a positive frame of mind when getting ready to quit smoking.
Also, you are more likely to stay stopped if you plan beforehand to stop smoking, rather than just stop all of a sudden without thinking about it.
Click on the following link and have a look at some things to get you started before you actually give up.
quitsupport.healthunlocked....
Have you any idea of when you would like to stop? For example, over the next couple of weeks or within a month. Let us know and we'll work through it with you
Congratulations on taking the first couple of steps into your stopping smoking journey
