Anybody NOT cough after quitting?
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I smoked 2 packs a day for 45 years. I was coughing a lot in the morning and at night for about 3 months before I quit. I have not been coughing anything up or coughing at all since I started vaping. I was waiting for it to start, especially around weeks 2 and 3. Nothing. I still feel some heaviness in my chest if I vape a lot of high vg liquids for a long time. So I use pretty much 50/50. Feel much better though. Glad I avoided the COPD and emyphasema.
I used to smoke about 1.5 pack a day and slowly cut back to half a pack by slowly increasing the time between cigarettes. During that period I did cough up some ugly stuff. Stayed at half a pack for maybe the last 2 years or so. Since switching to vaping a few weeks ago I haven't coughed up anything at all.
Smoked 1-1 1/2 PAD for almost 20 yrs and have now quit for 70 days today. I know this sounds strange, but I'm getting a bit upset that I haven't coughed after quitting. I've quit several times before, longest has been three months, I have to say I have NEVER had the "quit cough".
It really bums me out because I would like to so I feel like tar and crap is cleaning out. I actually always look forward to this part of quitting because I feel like it would be a whole cleansing process. I just feel like maybe its always gonna just stick in my lungs.
Anyone else out there smoked for many, many years, quit and never cough?
Good genes.
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Good genes.
Geez, I hope your right! I was thinking the opposite, too damaged. My last chest X-ray like 2 yrs ago when I had a very bad bout w/bronchitis showed signs of an enlarged lung...not good. And since I've been around smoke literally my entire life, I know I have some irreversible damage.
I guess that's why I kind of was hoping to get that cough, twisting it in my mind it was a healing process because I've read about that quit cough over and over on a ton of different quit forums. (After 15 times trying, with a bunch of different methods, I've see a ton of different forums). And everyone on all these forums, including on EFC would say "its good to cough, you're cleaning the junk out of your lungs!"
So when I didn't cough, I guess it made me kind of panic that I'm not cleaning anything out. That's why I posted the question.
I realize there's no set answer and only my own new chest X-ray will let me know if anything has changed (always going to doc and getting that checked out makes me nervous as hell) but for some reason it's still comforting to know I'm not the only person not coughing when quitting. All you read about is the cough, not much about not coughing.
To cough or not to cough, that is the question...LOLOL
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Geez, I hope your right! I was thinking the opposite, too damaged. My last chest X-ray like 2 yrs ago when I had a very bad bout w/bronchitis showed signs of an enlarged lung...not good. And since I've been around smoke literally my entire life, I know I have some irreversible damage.
I guess that's why I kind of was hoping to get that cough, twisting it in my mind it was a healing process because I've read about that quit cough over and over on a ton of different quit forums. (After 15 times trying, with a bunch of different methods, I've see a ton of different forums). And everyone on all these forums, including on EFC would say "its good to cough, you're cleaning the junk out of your lungs!"
So when I didn't cough, I guess it made me kind of panic that I'm not cleaning anything out. That's why I posted the question.
I realize there's no set answer and only my own new chest X-ray will let me know if anything has changed (always going to doc and getting that checked out makes me nervous as hell) but for some reason it's still comforting to know I'm not the only person not coughing when quitting. All you read about is the cough, not much about not coughing.
To cough or not to cough, that is the question...LOLOL
If/when you get that chest X-ray, and I hope you DO!, please post if there is or isn't any change. We would All love to know if vaping has made any difference or not.
i would always be sick with throat infections and also i have to use an inhaler and i havnt had to pick up my inhaler once since i been vaping and i havnt been sick . big thanks to Diamond Vapor
Geez, I hope your right! I was thinking the opposite, too damaged. My last chest X-ray like 2 yrs ago when I had a very bad bout w/bronchitis showed signs of an enlarged lung...not good. And since I've been around smoke literally my entire life, I know I have some irreversible damage.
I guess that's why I kind of was hoping to get that cough, twisting it in my mind it was a healing process because I've read about that quit cough over and over on a ton of different quit forums. (After 15 times trying, with a bunch of different methods, I've see a ton of different forums). And everyone on all these forums, including on EFC would say "its good to cough, you're cleaning the junk out of your lungs!"
So when I didn't cough, I guess it made me kind of panic that I'm not cleaning anything out. That's why I posted the question.
I realize there's no set answer and only my own new chest X-ray will let me know if anything has changed (always going to doc and getting that checked out makes me nervous as hell) but for some reason it's still comforting to know I'm not the only person not coughing when quitting. All you read about is the cough, not much about not coughing.
To cough or not to cough, that is the question...LOLOL
Consider yourself lucky... I knew a guy, who knew a guy, that had an uncle, who's dad's stepbrother's son, married a woman, who's adopted child smoked 'till she was 103 years old!!!
Thirty-some years of smoking (up to 3 packs a day, about a pack to a pack and a half the last few years) and my cough just sort of went away after two weeks.
I'm okay with that.
You lost me at u knew a guy, who knew a guy...but I'm sure it was a great correlation to my step mothers aunt's niece that is married to my second cousins neighbor who's twice removed from my first cousins best friend who hasn't smoked at all...
Been vaping for 3 weeks now, and I'm getting a terrible cough in A.M. and in early evening. I thought I was "over vaping" & might be. Towards the evening, it gets so harsh, I can't hardly vape!!
You posted this a few days ago "I've been vaping 24mg. VG.", that I have found gunks up the coil and might be what is giving you the harsh in the evening. I normally do a 50/50 myself and clean & dry burn when the taste changes (I have Lots of EVOD's, CE4's, Cartomizers, Etc). Just a thought. Wish I could be of more help.
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Since I've been vaping fer over two point five years, my question would be, "Are you my pulmonologist or proctologist?"!!!
Haven't had an analog since August 3rd, smoked 1.5 to 2 pad for 25+ years. Not a single cough, nil, non, nada. Feel like a new person and haven't even had a morning craving. Vape rules!!
I'm far from being a veteran vaper or have even a nugget the knowledge of some folks on here but I would have to agree with Burnie to some extent. I ran into the same problems the first week I was vaping but I've lowered my nic to 12 with a morning bottle of Red Bull flavored 18 in my Iclear 16 for that wake up punch. Through the day I slowly turn my Itaste 134 down from 9 watts to 6 where I finish the night with some salted caramel in a very airy modified Smok Octopus RDA. If I burn the coils in my Iclear's or get my RDA too hot they get very VERY harsh.
Having been a 1.5 to 2 pad analog Marlboro Red smoker for over 20 years I thought I needed the really strong ie 24 nic but have found 12 to be plenty with a morning kick of 18.
No cough here after started vaping... slight cough before quitting and no cough after and was a 2.5 pack a day smoker..... And Ive got little tiny white spots on my lungs ( the starting of emphezema (spl).... anyway.... no black stuff coughed out of me.
Maybe wqe are keeping it supressed or something.....maybe the VG coating is keeping it all encased in our lungs. Somebody find out and get back to me. Who knows ?
Maybe wqe are keeping it supressed or something.....maybe the VG coating is keeping it all encased in our lungs. Somebody find out and get back to me. Who knows ?
Just curious as to when you had the chest X-ray -before or after you started vaping? If it was before, have you had them checked since?
Think I already stated this in this thread but week 3 was pretty bad for me as well. I woke up in middle of night coughing a lot. I'm back to my regular smoking cough but still haven't broken through to the cough free stage. I found it helpful not inhale it deep into my lungs like I did with cigs. I started inhaling mostly into my mouth and maybe 1/4 to 1/8 of the lungs and then exhaling through nose and mouth.
I'm back to inhaling about halfway into my lungs now. I think I made a post on proper way to vape and got all sorts of varying opinions on it. I still like it going into my lungs but do think it irritates the lungs and throat more when doing it that way. So you might try just doing mouth and nostrils. Apparently you don't even need it in your lungs like you do smoke to absorb the nicotine as partials are way smaller and can be absorbed by mucus membranes in mouth and nostrils.
Doesn't give you quite the satisfaction of inhaling and having throat and lung hit (mostly throat hit for me); but something you may want to give a try for a while as well as switching up your pg/vg ratio. I've always been 50/50 pg/vg other than when I started on disposables...think those are mostly pg.
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