Morning Cough

[Pandora]

When I smoked, I rarely had "smoker's cough" in the morning. Now that I vape, I wake up in the morning coughing. It keeps having to dawn on me that I've only been vaping for a couple weeks - seems longer. When I started vaping I had a cold so I'm wondering if it's just the cold lingering because aside from mornings, I sometimes during the day get a rattle in the top of my chest/bottom of my throat and usually have to clear my throat or force a cough to get it out. In the beginning, I was coughing out actual "stuff" but this is strange. What it is is just clear slime. I don't even know if it can qualify as mucous. It's really annoying. I think I'd rather have mucous honestly. It is like the slime you made at the science museum when you were a kid - clear, clean, and stretchy, and it likes to cling to the place it settles. I'm just wondering - is this left over from my cold? Or is it my lungs healing? Or is it a result of vaping - like this is the morning vaper's cough type of thing? Did anyone else have this happen? Does it go away?

 

[Hellen A. Handbasket]

I did the same thing, and it went away in a few weeks. Also, in some areas, now is allergy season again so I know some people have problems with congestion or they've caught a bit of a cold. I had a cold as I first started vaping... so I attributed some of my cough and the production to that, but read on the forum that your lungs will start to clear out the crud from smoking as well. What ever the cause, it has gone away, and now I rarely cough, and it never is productive.

It is also possible that you might not do so well with PG. If it persists, you might want to check out using VG only liquid to see if that clears it up?

 

[Pandora]

Yeah, I pretty much use VG exclusively. I have a little PG but I rarely use it. How long did it take for it to go away for you? I guess I just assumed what the cough produced would have more color/substance to it. It's just clear and slimy. I'll read up on it more.

 

[Sheryl]

I've been vaping 1 month on the 4th, I have the same problem. I did not have a cold prior to vaping.

 

[Backslash]

Mine is going away already and I can breathe easier it's great! But yeah, a few days after stopping analogs all the junk started to come up, hehe.

 

[Hellen A. Handbasket]

It took about 4 weeks. I couldn't believe how much better I felt. I think smokers get over colds slower anyway.

I was surprised by how many people start vaping here that have colds around the same time (before they start, not caused by the vaping!).

I think also that the vaping may cause dryness, and that may ramp up mucus production? I just kept drinking lots of water (or coffee all day for that extra buzz!). I know my lips are dry still... gotta love Burt's Bees! I use it like a fiend.

 

[Pandora]

Okay, that makes me feel better. I was thinking maybe it was a result of vaping because it's clear and slimy instead of globs and dark gunk like at first. I do breathe a LOT better than I used to though. So this is probably like the after effects and part of the healing process. I guess 10 years of smoking isn't going to be completely undone in 10 days lol. My bf is still resistant to ecigs and the issues I'm having with the clear slime is helping him prove his point that I'm being a guinea pig. Whatever. We'll see what he has to say in a month or two when the slime goes away!

 

[Pandora]

It took about 4 weeks. I couldn't believe how much better I felt. I think smokers get over colds slower anyway.

I was surprised by how many people start vaping here that have colds around the same time (before they start, not caused by the vaping!).

Yeah, it always took me forever to get over a cold, up to 6 weeks! I got over this one in a little less than a week and I started vaping on day 2/3 of the cold. Then I started coughing up yellow/brown mucous, sometimes with black flecks in it. Then it went to intermittent clear slime and has remained that way for almost a week now. It's annoying!

I think also that the vaping may cause dryness, and that may ramp up mucus production? I just kept drinking lots of water (or coffee all day for that extra buzz!). I know my lips are dry still... gotta love Burt's Bees! I use it like a fiend.

Yes, same here. If I'm not drinking coffee, I'm drinking Kool-Aid. I was never a fan of kool aid before I started vaping. Now it's like nectar from the gods - especially intense flavors like blue raspberry lemonade (I swear that stuff is made from crack). I also have some 100% cocoa butter lip balm that melts right onto your lips a lot like Burt's Bees that I can't live without lol.

Thanks for the general time frame. I'll monitor it and see if it gets better over the next few weeks.

 

[kklogan]

The coughing is a good thing because your lungs have to readjust to not being exposed to all the toxins in analogs. I stopped having a dry throat and cough after about 1 month.

 

[Hellen A. Handbasket]

I'll still get a dry throat (froggy voice) with a few of my e-liquids. Don't know if it is ingredient specific, but suspect so.

Kool Aid! mmmmm haven't had any of that in a long time. May have to get some Lime. It was my fav!

Get well soon!!

 

[grisgris13]

It could very well be your lungs clearing themselves from all the tar and etc you've been putting into them. Especially if you produce mucous. That happens to most everyone who stops smoking analogs. I've had it happen after quitting for only 3-4 days. I thought I was getting a chest cold or something but nope the lungs were doing their thing. If this is what is happening to you, it will go away.

 

[Xenogy]

I was an 8yr smoker and used PG exclusively. I vaped for about 2 weeks but still had 1-3 analogs per day. My 3rd week I quit analogs all together. My 4th 5th and 6th week I had this clear morning lung congestion you mention that caused me to cough alot. I also never coughed in the mornings before when smoking. Towards the end of the 6th week is when it started to reside. Now I'm at 11 weeks and have not had the problem since.

 

[Eric in AK]

Just wondering if taking something like Airborne would help? Lots of vitamins and minerals and herbs in it. WalMart sells their generic equivalent for much cheaper. Any time I think I might be getting a cold I mix up a glass of the stuff and like magic the symptoms go away. Maybe it's more mental than anything else! It tastes good, fizzes like Alka Seltzer, and really seems to make a huge difference. I haven't had a real cold in about 2 years, I think. All my co-workers use it - that's where I learned about it - and we all keep some in our desks so we're never without it.

Just a suggestion...might not do anything for the slime, but even if you don't feel lousy this stuff really puts vitamins in your system fast and seems to provide an energy boost or something.

 

[rjp44]

I've smoke analogs for nearly 50 yrs and still haven't quit completely, although I've drastically cut back. When I would get up in the morning, I would cough up quite a bit of phlem, then when I first started vaping about a month ago (PG based) I would cough up even more. I noticed this morning that I didn't cough at all. My lungs feel better and I'm breathing better. This dispite being diagnosed with early stage COPD.

 

[MaDPimP]

I have allergies and also had problems with this when i was a heavy smoker... now that i vape it seems to have gone away mostly except for a smaller amount of the clear goo you discuss. I asked a friend who is a nurse who thought it might be a coating of mucus produced by your throat due to irritation. Essentially its kind of a buffer to protect a sore/irritated throat

 

[Pandora]

Well, I know I don't have a cold anymore. I actually have some of that airborne stuff you are talking about Eric. I haven't taken one in awhile but it is a good idea to start using them again with the season change and I will do that. I usually take a handful of vitamins every day but I stopped a couple months ago because I couldn't afford it. I hadn't been sick in almost 2 years and a couple months after I stopped the vitamins I got a cold . I stopped coughing up mucous about 5 days ago and since then it's just been the clear gel/slime stuff. I use VG exclusively right now but I did use PG the first couple of days because I got a couple free samples of it. I actually switched to the VG samples almost right away - partly because of what I read here and partly because it "felt" better - cleaner I guess. I don't know but I haven't really had a chance to mess around with all the flavors and the different PG liquids. I had that bad cold and the PG made me cough every time I vaped whereas the VG didn't, so I just started using the VG exclusively. It could be a coating in my throat I guess. My lungs feel amazingly clear but every so often I get a rattle, which feels like it's in my chest and I have to cough it out. I've found that if I breathe out really hard instead of coughing it comes out easier and more of it comes. If I cough it basically gets stuck in my throat and annoys me for awhile. I've found that gargling helps this. I gargle warm water spit out a bunch of slime, gargle again, spit out more slime and so on until no more slime comes out. So it could very well be in my throat cuz as I write this I'm thinking that all sounds like throat issues except for feeling it in my chest. But that doesn't explain the morning cough I don't think, which seems to come exclusively from my chest and takes a full coughing fit to get rid of. Either way, it's comforting to know that others have gone through it and it stopped for them! In the beginning it's hard to know if something is caused by the lack of analogs or by the introduction of vaping. I'm hopeful that this will pass in a couple more weeks since most people say that theirs went away in about a month.

rjp44 - Wow! 50 years! Congratulations on cutting so far back! I wouldn't have thought you were old enough to have smoked 50 years judging by your picture.

 

[Sludge Van Diesel]

When I smoked, I rarely had "smoker's cough" in the morning. Now that I vape, I wake up in the morning coughing.

I was wondering where my smokers cough had gone.

You can keep it, I'm done with it

Hopefully it will just be your body getting used to the transition, as I've not heard of a case of vapers cough before.

All the best

 

[FL-Eagle]

I used to have a wicked morning cough but since I've started vaping that all cleared up. I do however suffer from allergies and generally have a light cough from that.

You are most likely in a transition period, I know when I started vaping I was coughing more than normal, but it was what a doctor would call a productive cough. Bringing up all that nasty gunk that was just hanging out in the chest.

 

[trog100]

my long term experience.. my very nasty smokers cough disappeared over night.. i thought it was damage done by years of heavy smoking.. surprisingly it wasnt it was just the irritation caused by the daily act of smoking..

the dry throat syndrome is normal.. so is the funny voice if its over done..

now.. well the slimly greasy clear stuff still forms in my upper throat.. i have to cough it up to get rid of it.. it does seem to be an upper throat thing and not stuff from the lungs.. its not nice but its a million times better than the nasty cough..

e smoking does have its downsides.. i also still have the odd real cigarette.. i can enjoy them better now.. they used to make me cough but no longer do..

my respiratory system is okay now or at least seems to be.. as for the clear greasy slime.. i think its just accumulated vapor stuff in the upper throat.. not nice but quite clearly there..

trog

ps... older people with real chest problems pretty much say e smoking has helped them tremendously.. so does the result when they visit their doctors.. grass roots medical people seem to like e cigs.. higher up is a different matter..

 

[schism61]

I been vaping for 4 weeks yesterday . And I noticed the reverse . use to wake up everyday and hack for 20 mins . For the last week or so I wake up and dont cough any