Does switching from analog to vaping help "lung cookies"?

[scratch777]

Hello all,
Just ordered an "E-go" online, and am waiting for it to be delivered. I go on and off cigs all the time, and after a while of smoking I start to hack up mucus in the morning; can I expect that to go away once I switch to e-cigs? Anyone have any personal experiences in this area?

Thanks

 

[Stosh]

Used to hack up a lung every morning, not any more.

And Welcome to ECF !!!

 

[MajorBedhead]

I don't cough in the mornings any more. I do still smoke one or two a day, some days, but my lungs feel 100% better now.

 

[StotheK]

I'm about 2 weeks into gaping now. I still have lots of lung gunk to purge so I cough in the mornings still but it is nowhere near the volume of crud it used to be. I do notice my lungs still hurt in the morning I hope that will go away too.

 

[kiri]

Yes I did stop coughing up junk in the morning after switching to e-cigs, though you might notice an increase during the transition while your lungs clean out. This lasted for about 3 weeks for me.
Check out this thread to find out what to expect.
A list of symptoms when quitting tobacco and changing to an ecigarette
Hope this helps and welcome from another newbie.

 

[walk1191]

Welcome, Scratch! When I still smoked I would hack up stuff somethin' awful and was congested every morning. I felt much better after switching to e-cigs, but then I got congested and coughed and hacked for two weeks. That was probably just old tar and whatnot I had accumulated in my lungs over the years. Now I feel great. Remember to drink lots of water because PG and VG are humectants and will rob your body of moisture. You made a wise choice in the eGo. I absolutely love mine. Good luck!

 

[hersch]

I would wheeze when I was ready to drop off to sleep when I was on analogs.But a few weeks of vaping no more waking up coughing and wheezing ...And now I am always breathing through nose instead of mouth opened and gurgling since I started vaping..In other words I am breathing alot better..

 

[knobbysmoo]

Almost 3 months cig free and yes, it does go away. It took me a few weeks before I wasn't coughing at all but now I can't believe how good I feel!

 

[hairball]

I used to cough up both lungs in the morning. It quit after the first week.

 

[NorthOfAtlanta]

It took almost 6 weeks for mine to clear up, 3 pad before I switched. Now I wake up and don't spend the first 5 min hacking my lungs up.

 

[Steelmage]

I've been Vaping for about 3 months now. I was just over a PAD smoker. It took about 2 weeks to completely quite hacking. I did quit weezing when I layed down at night though in about a week. My sense of smell really came back with a vengance in about 4 weeks. I had to clean everything. The smell stall cigarette smoke and butts is absolutely terrible now. My sense of taste is still gradually coming back. I started noticing taste differances in about 3 or 4 weeks after moving completely to vaping. Which by the way only took 4 days. I'm still amazed that after smoking analogs for 42 years I was finally able to not smoke and not miss it.

 

[Guyver Gaiden]

For me i was coughing for almost a month after switching to e cigs....um i think thats a common thing..but for some peoples the cough differ and varies from what i have read..

 

[BlownAway]

At almost two packs a day, I would hack up a lung cookie a few times a week. It hurt. I would also feel something rattle in my lungs when I took a deep breath. It was a relief to have both go away in the first month. My doctor was also pleased.

 

[Trooper74]

My problem is waking up in the middle of the night hacking but once I am up and moving it seems to be a small cough here or there. I am glad to hear(and so is my wife) that this will go away!

 

[JWebb]

Like the others say, it goes away, ONCE you stop the analogs. If you go back and forth it stays with you.

 

[devilmama]

I noticed my coughs were "wetter" in the mornings (not just more productive, but not as goopy...gross, I know)...I asked my doctor about it and he explained it this way: I spent 20 years coating my lungs with TAR - a substance used in waterproofing. So basically the moisture I inhale (vapor) isn't all getting absorbed by my lungs because of that lovely tar coating...
After a couple weeks, the vapor was helping break apart the cigarette gunk in my lungs and then I stopped coughing altogether. One thing I DID do (not suggesting you smoke, but this helped) was make my 1st cig of the day an analog for the 1st 2 weeks, then the rest of the day vaping. Trying to vape 1st thing in the morning made me hack and cough like a newb smoker! I only did that for the 1st couple of weeks tho...after that, vaping w/ my morning coffee didn't make me cough.

 

[Pip-Boy]

Ya, had the hacks big time in the morning when I smoked. Also, my sinuses have always been a little sensitive, I would have black crude in my tissue after the morning nose-blow. Also, I had a dark spot on the back of my tongue, that I couldn't get rid of no matter how much I brushed and scraped. Once I switched to vaping and off of smokes, all of that clear up within a couple of weeks. The only side-effect I have noticed since I became a vapor is that my nose goblins are a little drier, a product of the humectant properties of pg and vg.

Off Topic:
@devilmama - Love the ink!! If that is you...Brava!

 

[kabonk]

so it will be 5 months of vaping for me in on the 3rd of this month, I smoked for 30 some years I stopped coughing and weezing right after I stopped smoking with in the first week. but I never hacked up that crap in my lungs untill about 2 weeks ago it finally started braking up hopefully it will begone soon its not like I'm coughing it more like the need to clear my throut and spit into a napkin.

 

[rise2it]

About the 4th day of vaping, my dad made the comment that "you don't cough like you used to..."

 

[Nitemist]

just remember folks - it took us YEARS to build up that 'gunk'... sadly it won't go away overnight (but I'm betting some of us, myself included, wish it would). I have noticed in the last 2 weeks that I have been hacking up 'hairballs' too, but nothing like I used to do! smaller hairballs, not quite as much of a headache from them either (yeah, it got THAT bad!). Remember comedian Bill Hicks? Hit the audience with: how many non-smokers here? and all the ppl would go nutz... yeah... you don't know the meaning of life till you wake up and hack up huge chunks of brown lung into your pillow... ;-)