No cough after quitting smoking?

[thewomenfolk]

I think most people here report that they have an awful cough that starts within a couple weeks of stopping smoking, that gets rid of the tar buildup in their lungs. How come that never happens with some that have been smoking for decades? I can't find anyone who can answer it on the Net and haven't seen it addressed here. Does anybody know?

[Parmacrafter]

I did not suffer the dreaded cough nor did my room mate. However, we were both several months into rolling out own cigarettes with additive free (As additive free as you can get anyway) loose tobacco. When I spoke to my doctor about the lack of cleansing cough as well as not noticing much difference in taste either, I was promptly told that when you get away from factory cigarettes this can happen. Not to say that rolling our own was any healthier, but I did notice that a few months into rolling my own I was tasting everything better. I was also told that factory cigarettes have tobacco that is chopped so fine that a form of glue is added to the tobacco so that it doesn't fall out of the cigarette tubes. Now how gross is that???? Apparently we have all been smoking glue along with all of the other nasty chemicals. For us at least the coughing and taste bud improvement was mostly solved when we switched to rolling our own. I can't speak for others, but hopefully this helps you out.

[isande]

Myself:
2 packs a day for 10 years, Pall Mall Light 100s - coughed before I quit but not at all after.

My husband:
1 pack a day for 6 years, Pall Mall Light 100s - no cough before or after quitting.

My brother:
3+ packs a day for 20some years, cheapest nastiest full flavored cigs around. Coughed before quitting but not after.

I've heard of the "cleansing cough" but don't know anyone who has actually experienced it. Go figure.

--K

[JohnnyVapor]

I've been vaping for about 3 weeks now, and the dreaded 'quit cough' is only now just starting. I think vaping delays the cough vs. just quitting cold turkey, as when I quit smoking before I usually got the cough within a week. Even still, it feels easier to breathe, so I can't complain.

[Katmar]

My last analog was 06/23/09 after 46 years of 1 to 1&1/2 packs a day. Never had much of a cough while smoking, and only now feeling a looser cough, which is a good thing. Could taste, smell and breathe better all within a week or 2 of quitting. LOVE my PV.

[Vapor Pete]

I quit a couple of times. Once with Zyban...no cough, again with the patch... no cough, and last and finally with the e-cig... no cough. Same situation with my wife... all three with her, and no cough. My .02

My best,
-VP

[CHUCKLEHEAD]

yea when i went from packs to roll my own my cough wasn't near as bad !!!!! now that i vape no cough at all!!!!!!!!!! except for the one thing were not suppose to mention here!!!!!! my lungs can handle that stuff much better !!!!!!!!!

[Deschain]

No cough three weeks in...but it takes a while for the cilia(sp) in your lungs to grow back doesn't it? I was sort of hoping I would cough and clear myself out.

Oh, I smoked roll ups for the last few years...does that really make a difference?


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[martha1014]

On the forum I read that most people start coughing up tar and phlegm after switching to ecig. I was concerned because I did not experience this .I smoked for 45 years 3 packs a day. I had already developed COPD so I don't understand why I have not coughed up anything in the 6 I have been vaping.

[molliejay]

good to hear there are others who have not coughed, I am 2 weeks into stopping and effects have been distorted sleep and extraordinarly dreams (only one about smoking in which I found a packet a B&H - never smoked them - in my hand with one cigarette missing and threw the packet away in disgust) and no cough AT ALL so was starting to worry. What is vaping?