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Old 10-26-2009, 12:23 AM   #11
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Everyone's body will react differently.

I smoked for well over 20 years (heavily) and have hacked up absolutely nothing in the 3 months since I quit.
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Old 10-26-2009, 02:01 AM   #12
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Same here. Haven't coughed up anything at all. My lung capacity is so much greater now than 3 weeks ago, it's really wonderful. Maybe I need to step up the jogging to really put more demand on my lungs. After all the analogs I consumed in my life, I know there has to be some crap still in there waiting to come out.
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Old 10-26-2009, 02:45 AM   #13
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I can relate to the working the lungs theory.
I used to go scuba diving a lot. One of the things ive carried on since then is working on deep breathing exercises.
While i havent completely stopped smoking, im down from 1 1/2 packs a day down to 1-2 maybe 3.
I notice that when i force myself to do some deep breathing exercises, that will be the catalyst for the smokers cough. Not so much on the inhale (but its good to get deep breaths to fully expand the aveoli) but a long slow completely emptying exhale. Do that a few times, and it will probably force out some more stuff.

Im 3-4 weeks in now, and still have a heck of a cough.
Ive coughed up a bunch, and i feel better for it, but i know i personally have a long road ahead of me as a 25 year smoker.
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Old 10-26-2009, 06:38 AM   #14
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Here's a nice little timeline I found:

20 MINUTES
  • Blood pressure drops to normal
  • Pulse rate drops to normal
  • Body temperature of hands and feet increases to normal
8 HOURS
  • Carbon monoxide level in blood drops to normal
  • Oxygen level in blood increases to normal
24 HOURS
  • Chance of heart attack decreases
48 HOURS
  • Nerve endings start regrowing
  • Ability to smell and taste is enhanced
2 WEEKS TO 3 MONTHS
  • Circulation improves
  • Walking becomes easier
  • Lung function increases up to 30 percent
1 TO 9 MONTHS
  • Coughing, sinus congestion, fatigue, and shortness of breath decrease
  • Cilia regrow in lungs, increasing their ability to handle mucus, clean the lungs, and reduce infection
  • Body's overall energy increases
1 YEAR
  • Excess risk of coronary heart disease is half that of a smoker
5 YEARS
  • Lung cancer death rate for an average former smoker (one pack a day) decreases by almost half
  • Stroke risk is reduced to that of a non-smoker five to 15 years after quitting
  • Risk of cancer of the mouth, throat, and esophagus is half that of a smoker's
10 YEARS
  • Lung cancer death rate is similar to that of a non-smoker
  • Precancerous cells are replaced
  • Risk of cancer of the mouth, throat, esophagus, bladder, kidney, cervix, and pancreas decreases
15 YEARS
  • Risk of coronary heart disease is that of a non-smoker
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Old 10-26-2009, 08:30 PM   #15
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It's been just about 3 weeks since I quit smoking and the only coughing I did was in the first 4-5 days. Oddly, the nasty stuff wasn't coughed up from my lungs, it was coughed down from my sinuses. It was as if I had the worst sinus infection of my life and it was clearing out rapidly. I was coming off a cold that I felt might be turning into a sinus infection at the time, but the taste I got in the back of my mouth from it was unlike anything I'd ever experienced from a sinus infection (and I've had plenty of those)... it was horrible. I wonder now if that was from years of tar and other junk built up in my sinuses. Anyone else experience anything like that?
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Old 10-29-2009, 09:01 PM   #16
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I WISH I could cough stuff up. I am starting to believe everyone when they said those Kool's were turning my lungs into fiberglass. I still can't breathe any better than when I was smoking; hoping that changes, its been 20 days or so. Not going to give up vaping based on that; just waiting to BREATHE! We are all just happy I don't stink anymore!
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Old 11-01-2009, 06:36 AM   #17
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I never coughed anything up. But yeah I never really coughed at all from quitting cigs and I smoked them from the time I was 10 to almost 26, yes I started early. Now I've been cig free for however long my banner in my sig says and I do feel a bit better but not to the extreme as others on the board have said. Maybe some are just different, maybe we didn't absorb cigarette smoke the same or something.
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