I've quit smoking cigarettes for a month now and I'm still coughing up the black speckly stuff. How long does this usually happen?
How long did you cough up the gross black stuff?
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I smoked a pack to a pack and a half a day for 35 years. I never had a cough or coughed up anything after I quit smoking.
Depending on how active you are it can vary by months. If you are a runner you will hack it all out in a few weeks.
Took me about 2 weeks. One of the most unpleasant experiences I've ever had the misfortune of going through.
I smoke a half pack of pall mall menthol 100s for about 2 1/2 years. I walk everywhere I go so that's my exercise, but I'm only 19 and i figured it would come out sooner for me than some other people.
I had been a pack a day smoker for around 25 years and quit about 3 weeks ago and have yet to start coughing up anything? Maybe it's time to hit the gym and start running again to get that crud out of me lol!
I was a smoker for 21 years, I almost immediately got sick when I went to vaping just over a month ago. Sore throat, really bad congestion. Its just now starting to ease up for me, but I can smell and taste things I haven't in years. I think it really very's person to person honestly.
I smoked a pack a day for 30 years; might have coughed a bit for a month when I started vaping but no black stuff.
No black stuff here...1.5 PAD smoker for over 25 years. Asthma since I was 2, COPD since I was 35, and I smoked until a few weeks ago. I cough a few times a day, spitting up crap, but no black specks.
I haven't had to use an inhaler or nebulizer since my second day...still need my CPAP at night, though. Yeah...I was stupid.
I haven't had to use an inhaler or nebulizer since my second day...still need my CPAP at night, though. Yeah...I was stupid.
1.5 PAD for 30 year EX-smoker (for 4 months) here. No black stuff either (greenish perhaps), but my lungs were VERY congested for a month or so. Found a heating pad on the chest each night help move things along. Glad I quit in the winter. A heating pad in summer would have be less enjoyable.
You know everyone talks about coughing all this stuff up and I never have. Hmmmmmmm I wonder if that is good or bad.
Smoked camels for about 20 years 2 packs a day give or take. I've been vaping almost a year, quit the cigs the day I started vaping and I still havent coughed up anything.....
20 plus year smoker of at least a pack and a half, closer to 2 and half packs or more the last year or so here. Having only been completely smoke free 3 days and have yet to cough up anything, but my congestion has disappeared. I've smoked Winston's for over 5 years now, which is supposed to have no additives, beyond tobacco. Not sure how true that is because I got pretty sick for a few days when I tried to roll my own with American Spirit Tobacco a few years back, but then again that could have just been the difference in nicotine content. My point being though is WHAT I smoked could have something to do with my experience as well, as I have yet to experience any hacking, or coughing up of any type of mucus and I was wondering when and if that is going to start at some point, so my concern has been sort of the opposite. I did take Mucinex for a few days before and the first couple of days to try and preemptively help in case I did start to, so you may want to try that or save money and just buy some guaifenesen, which is the same thing only much cheaper. Exercising more like someone else suggested is a good idea as well.
On a side note, my lungs hurt the first few days I started vaping, and was smoking at the same time. Much less so though, as in only 5-10 a day at that point. Good luck and hope you stick with it, that should tell you how much junk smoking put in your lungs, and that despite vaping, it is all coming up!
On a side note, my lungs hurt the first few days I started vaping, and was smoking at the same time. Much less so though, as in only 5-10 a day at that point. Good luck and hope you stick with it, that should tell you how much junk smoking put in your lungs, and that despite vaping, it is all coming up!
My sense of smell started to come back after a few days and has continued to improve into week 3 (not necessarily a good thing, lots of things and people stink) lol
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