I have a question about phlegm. I have a lot in my lungs and was wondering if it is from the vaping, quitting the cigarettes or non related.
Any one else have this?
Any one else have this?
Kind of a gross question
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Just the opposite for me. I coughed it up every day until I switched to vaping. Now I have none. In fact, my lungs feel a little dry.
Same for me which is why I drink alot of water whenever I vape alot...........
It's your lungs trying to heal getting rid of that nasty buildup from all the stinkies
i'm willing to bet it's from stopping cigarettes. Drinking water is great advice and after (it really depends) maybe 2 weeks, that will go away. I've heard it's your body clearing out toxins and crap from your lungs but i had little of it.
But when i was smoking i'd cough all the time anyway. Yet kept doing it
Hang in there.
T
But when i was smoking i'd cough all the time anyway. Yet kept doing it
Hang in there.
T
As a 30 yr smoker of 2 packs a day, the last couple of years I've had a nasty, dry cough. Very "hacking" but no phlegm. Since quitting cigs I've noticed that I cough up actual phlegm now but it's not an out-of-control cough like before, it's actually productive.
I have heard from a lot of ex-smokers who did not switch to vaping that they coughed up all kinds of crap. I think it is just part of quitting all those nasty chemicals. Your lungs are trying to be themselves again. I hacked for a little over a month but it seems to have stopped now. It is nasty, nasty stuff that comes up but its good for you 
Your lung's cilia, those little hair-like structures that help move mucous or phlegm out of our respiratory tract, begin to heal and function as they were meant to once you quit smoking.
I've read that Vg (vegetable glycerin) may increase mucous production.
I've noticed that I have had more symptoms of respiratory allergies (hayfever and other pollen-related sneezing and runny nose) since I have become smoke-free. I believe smoking somehow affected my body's immune response to allergines, and now that I have quit they also are healing. So this is sort of a negative side effect of being an ex-cigarette smoker.
I've read that Vg (vegetable glycerin) may increase mucous production.
I've noticed that I have had more symptoms of respiratory allergies (hayfever and other pollen-related sneezing and runny nose) since I have become smoke-free. I believe smoking somehow affected my body's immune response to allergines, and now that I have quit they also are healing. So this is sort of a negative side effect of being an ex-cigarette smoker.
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After only 2 weeks, It might just be the cleaning out of your lungs. Give it a few more weeks or more if you were a heavy smoker.
Thanks, Baditude. You saved my 20 minutes working up a wordy post that would have said the same thing. Those cilia are paralyzed by nicotine, and many of them recover. My understanding is that the vape isn't well adsorbed by the lungs so we get most of the benefits of not smoking at all. The same process applies to all pollutants we intake, if they are of the right type an size.
Thanks so much. I smoked 6-8 cigarettes a day. I had a feeling that it was my lungs trying to get that crap out.
I read that the pg/vg is harmless and that the nicotine is not that bad for you but what about the flavoring? Has there been any studies about that?
I read that the pg/vg is harmless and that the nicotine is not that bad for you but what about the flavoring? Has there been any studies about that?
No there hasn't been...yet. This is one of the contentions of the FDA that there haven't been any scientific-based studies done with the e-liquids that e-cigarettes use.
Despite that fact, I'll take my chances of using this alternative nicotine delivery method over the thousands of known harmful chemicals found in cigarette smoke any day of the week.
I hardly cough anymore but I do seem to have to clear my throat a lot more. It seems like the vapor coats my throat with a thin film. I don't inhale very much but I notice if I do inhale my throat gets even more coated.
Personally I haven't coughed up a lot. Recently I had a hard time swallowing because of thick phlegm in the back of my throat. I thought I was having a bad reaction to a flavor or too much PG. The next morning I started coughing up a little phlegm with some stringy looking brown stuff in it. Been going on about a week. Gross I know. I have been weening myself off of cigs for over a year and vaping around 4 months. Results will probably vary from person to person. I'm glad to cough it up though. I want it gone!
they'll be coming soon, hopefully. a year-long study was performed recently on e-cigarette use in general, some of the results are presented in the video in this thread:
http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/fo...electronic-cigarette-study-press-release.html
i don't mean to get political (i hate politics), but i don't think the fda will be doing any real studies anytime soon - between big tobacco and big pharma, there's too much money in washington against e-cigs (although it looks like bt may be coming around).
anyways, to address the topic of this thread, i coughed up phlegm for a few weeks, maybe a month, after switching. i was a smoker for 10 years, at most 1 pad, right before i switched i was down to 8-10 sticks a day.
I lucked out, my coughing went away very fast. Sometimes I would get a sore throat
but when I got a new tank that stopped too. Not sure if they're related.
For me, I just switched from smoking about half a pack a day to vaping around 3 weeks ago, and I noticed in the morning when I brush my teeth, my toothbrush is black and I spit out black and green phlegm. I'm willing to bet its my body expelling the tar from my system? But I've got no medical evidence that's the case.
I just wanted to confirm the point that high VG amounts can be mucous-producing. It also makes my ears clog, which was the only way I could tell it was more than lungs clearing for me. I have that issue if the VG is more that 50%.
And I also experience the negative side effect of heightened allergy symptoms. But the positive side effect is that sinus infections are not as severe as they were when I was smoking, probably because I get rid of more of the nasty stuff.
The first couple of months are the worst as you body heals, but it does get better.
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