How long before lungs started spitting up stuff from smoking?
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I'm one of those smokers that never coughed up anything nasty. I smoked a minimum of 1 pack a day for 31 +/- years with smoking more towards 2 to 4 packs a day during the last 3 years of my smoking. Still... Never coughed up a lung or lung bogey. When I did have smokers cough it was always a very dry cough.
With vaping in the beginning I had no issues, but for the past month or so (I started vaping about 16 to 18 months ago I think) I've been waking up in the morning with a really heavy chest and a pain in between my shoulder blades that seems to radiate from the lungs towards the back. It goes away eventually, usually in about 30 minutes or so but I've started to wonder if some of the new liquids that I've tried lately might be causing it so I've switched to something else to see.
With vaping in the beginning I had no issues, but for the past month or so (I started vaping about 16 to 18 months ago I think) I've been waking up in the morning with a really heavy chest and a pain in between my shoulder blades that seems to radiate from the lungs towards the back. It goes away eventually, usually in about 30 minutes or so but I've started to wonder if some of the new liquids that I've tried lately might be causing it so I've switched to something else to see.
When I smoked (23+ years and averaged 2 PAD) I would cough up stuff all the time, mornings were the worst. But once I started vaping it went away very quickly almost instantaneously. Still have some from time to time though that is attributed to "other" smoking vices I haven't quite given up on.
After the first week of vaping, I was coughing stuff up for about 3 weeks then after that stopped I felt a lot better all around.. i was smoking for 10 years(8 of those pack+ a day) when I switched to vaping! Been vaping almost 2 years now and never looked back.
I never really started coughing at all. I had a little smokers cough on occasion, but was never too bad. I breath better though and I used to get this nasty stuff in the back of my throat when I smoked, that's gone now.
IIRC, it started for me within about a week, it was`nt that bad, but it was a congestion that I was not used to, quite a bit worst then the normal nightly congestion that accompanied day to day smoking of cigars. This lasted for about 6 months or so, then tapered off to nothing within 8 months, IIRC?. Now the only time I feel any congestion in my chest is when Im vaping heavy VG 70% or more, but I don`t do that often because of this affect it has on me.
Yesterday I remarked how white my wifes teeth had gotten. I really took a good look at them and its almost like she went in for one of those whitening treatments, they are really ivory white. Mine are taking a bit longer from the cigar staining I guess.
Yesterday I remarked how white my wifes teeth had gotten. I really took a good look at them and its almost like she went in for one of those whitening treatments, they are really ivory white. Mine are taking a bit longer from the cigar staining I guess.
I smoked for 55 years...a pack and then some. I always had a smokers cough! The last few years that I smoked I had this constant tickle in my bronchial tubes that would make me cough....especially when I laid down in bed to sleep. Sometimes I would also wake up in the middle of the night coughing. After one week of vaping my husband said "do you realize that you are not coughing anymore?" haha as if I had not noticed! I did not cough at all when I was first vaping like so many do when they are trying it for the first time. I have been cigarette free for 2 1/2 years!!! If I had known about vaping I would have stopped smoking earlier. I hated what cigarettes did to me!!! It was like a ball and chain around my neck that I could not shake.
In the 45+ years that I smoked, I never had a persistent cough. About a month before I quit, I had developed a cough that concerned me and that spurred me on to finally give up cigarettes. The cough, thankfully, disappeared. I haven't smoked in over three months but haven't really experienced any of the effects, good or bad, often associated with quitting smoking. I feel pretty much the same. I do have better lung capacity. I can walk/hike farther without needing to rest. Bottom line: I expected to be hocking up loogies galore after I quit...but it never happened.
I had much the same experience myself, my cough was just about gone after two weeks, and I smoked 1 to 3 packs a day for 30 years. Everyone's different.
For many years I did`nt think much of what smoking was or might be doing to me, but I could see its affects on my wife, three times I had to take her in for pleurisy of the lungs in a ten year span. It was about the last three years of my smoking I could feel that it was starting to take its toll. I could feel it a little bit in the morning, it was hard to get up and to get functioning, serious cobwebs. But I could really feel it in the evening when it seemed like I had a vice on my chest squeezing the life out of me, slowly and gently, it was building up and I could no longer deny that I could feel it.
Funny thing is both me and my wife half heartidly agreed that we would REALLY try and quite when we hit 50. Well, She`s 50 now and Im 49. And its been 15-16 months of no stinkies in our house. Funny how God works.
Yeah after I switched I never really coughed anything up. And like you I was smoking for about the same amount of time before switching to vaping.
I was pretty much like half a pack the first year and a pack a day for the next 7 or so. It was definitely rough for sports, but even with all of that, those last 7 years I still smoked about a pack a day. But with just those last years I was either waking up coughing up something brown or it'd randomly come up through the day.
I was pretty much like half a pack the first year and a pack a day for the next 7 or so. It was definitely rough for sports, but even with all of that, those last 7 years I still smoked about a pack a day. But with just those last years I was either waking up coughing up something brown or it'd randomly come up through the day.
Off topic but reading all these success stories is wonderful, I mean this is some pretty serious stuff, some x amount of years of smoking and vaping got them to quit, how good is that.. Well done everyone..
I honestly don't remember how long it took to start. But it only lasted for a day or so and wasn't that bad.
Suppose it's different for everyone. I was a heavy smoker for 16 years smoking roll your own tobacco and after about 2 day not smoking I started coughing up lots of black crud from my lungs and it took about 6 months before it all cleared.
It really freaked me out at first just how much crud was coming up. I went to the doctor and he said not to worry and that it was just my lungs getting rid of all the crap from smoking. I'm just so glad I quit when I did. Now after years of having a cronic cough, chest infections and trouble breathing I feel great and can breath a full lung of air with no trouble.
It really freaked me out at first just how much crud was coming up. I went to the doctor and he said not to worry and that it was just my lungs getting rid of all the crap from smoking. I'm just so glad I quit when I did. Now after years of having a cronic cough, chest infections and trouble breathing I feel great and can breath a full lung of air with no trouble.
I coughed up crud while smoking and did so for another 2 months after I reduced the smoking from 2-3PAD to 2-3 ciggies a day...
now I just clear the throat a couple of times in the morning... no more coughing fits when I breathe heavy or laugh...
now I just clear the throat a couple of times in the morning... no more coughing fits when I breathe heavy or laugh...
I smoked an average of 30 cigarettes a day (some years more, some years less) for 45 years. I did cough up some clear phlegm with tiny brown speckles a couple of weeks after I switched to vaping. Then again after about 8 weeks in. After that, nothing. It's been four months now.
I smoked heavily for 40 years and quit thanks to vaping and I coughed up very little crud after quitting smoking. The first few months I might have noticed a little but for the most part the coughing really disappeared within a week of quitting smoking and becoming a vaperer.
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