No cough?

[stern]

Hello all!

So I have been off the smokes for 9 days now woooo.

I heard so much about this quitter's cough, yet I don't think I have coughed once since I stopped smoking and began vaping??

I am 24, and smoked a pack a day for 6-8 years, and never had a smokers cough. I smokes Newports so I know that I dumped volumes of crap into my lungs, cough or not. Is it normal to not experience a cough when quitting 9 days later?

I keep waiting for the productive cough to start....maybe the vaping is preventing me from coughing?? This seems weird, because other vapors experienced the quit coughs as well. Maybe it will take more time?

Anyone experience the same thing? For those who got the cough, how long did it take from the time you quit smoking to the time you started coughing all that crap out?

Thanks.

 

[thinkingaboutit]

I am coughing less than when I smoked. The "productuve" cough for me was about two weeks in.

 

[TigerLadyTX]

I have been vaping for just over 7 months after smoking for 33 years, 2.5PAD there in the latter years...my 'complete quit cigarettes date' was 3/4/2012. As far as a 'productive cough', about mid-March, I had one for about a total of 3 days. But, that could have coincided with the advent of Spring, as well. Since then, I never cough - unless I am choking on something - and I had a really, really bad smokers' cough. I would cough hard enough that I would darn near pass out at times....

~Tiger

 

[Ezkill]

It's kind of random. For some people it's weeks and for some people it's months before your lungs regain the ability to clean themselves correctly.

I've quit before using other methods that ended up not sticking and the coughing really started at random intervals even when not vaping.

 

[Vapira]

I'd be happy not to cough! ewwww gunk that tastes like old cigs. seriously. Had vocal cord surgery a week ago so that doesn't help either. However, despite my whining. I'm glad it's going! I can talk, much to my hubbys dismay, and I can breathe! Good things

Vapira

 

[Iffy]

Maybe I'm just one of a few... but I've yet to 'produce' (don't ya just love medical jargon) any nasties and I'm approaching fifteen months 'bakky free. My breathing and sense of smell have dramatically improved. Plus, my nasal passages are clear and clean.

I also was concerned about the lack of obvious lung cleansing, but now with the other improvements, I vape on... and on... and...

 

[vengess]

i have not had the productive cough yet either but im not worring about it. after 6 months of vaping my nasal cavities are clear and i can climb a hill without hyper ventalating when i have reached the top. I did get tongue and mouth ulcers though for 6 days and couldnt drink or eat without hurting myself. lol

 

[DaveP]

I hacked a little about 2 weeks out and got better from then on. What I noticed a couple of months after quitting was that my lungs were really clear. At that I could exhale completely all the way down to no more air and not sense the congestion in my lungs that I always had when I did that. The smokers wheeze when I laughed was gone.

The articles I've read that put timelines on the benefits you get at various intervals after stopping smoking say that it takes about 9 months to reap most of the lung benefits from quitting. Many of the good things that happen extend incrementally out to five years or so from your quit date with remarkable results during the first year.

After The Last Cigarette - The Benefits of Quitting Smoking Begin

 

[myxomatosis]

Maybe I'm just one of a few... but I've yet to 'produce' (don't ya just love medical jargon) any nasties and I'm approaching fifteen months 'bakky free. My breathing and sense of smell have dramatically improved. Plus, my nasal passages are clear and clean.

I also was concerned about the lack of obvious lung cleansing, but now with the other improvements, I vape on... and on... and...

Ditto. I haven't really had any productive coughing associated with cigarettes, I've been vaping over a year now.

 

[stern]

Thanks for all the replies. I thought that it would vary tremendously with each individual (what doesn't?). I'll check out that link DaveP, thanks for it.

 

[Jixchel]

Only time I coughed when switching to vaping was when the nic level was too high or when I took too sharp of a draw from a carto.

 

[wokkerk]

Im with you Stern...Ive been off the analogs for a week and no coughs at all...I smoked a pack every two days though. I just can't wait to get my sense of taste and smell back...that is what has me anxious.

 

[Doublexl85]

The first time I started vaping I was coming off of 2 PAD of camel wides and had the coughs pretty good for a week or two, then went back to analogs for a few years still 2 PAD but they were roll your own and when I came back to Vaping I had no cough after quitting even though I could definitely tell my lungs are functioning much better. Compared to most here you didn't smoke that long or that much so that maybe why you don't have it. Or the brand you smoked may have had a different type of tobacco, just a guess.