No Symptoms?!

[AMBKJ]

I've been vaping for just over a month. A few times I've had to smoke analogs because I found my supposedly charged batteries pooped out on me when I'm on the go. Before e-cigs, I couldn't go very long without a cigarette until I started hacking and coughing. Have a cig, stop coughing. Normal, right?

So I'm wondering why, after all this time without cigarettes, my lungs aren't trying to repair themselves. No cough, no hack, no nuthin'. I know I have one "collapsed" lung due to a bronchial infection several years ago. Could they be so far gone they won't even try to recover???

Has anyone else gone symptom-free when quitting cigs?

 

[Happy Domino38]

Me!!

Smoked a pack a day for 25 years and never once had a 'hacking up a lung' episode to show my lungs were 'clearing'.

But, that being said, I'm ALSO a Paramedic and not everyone 'expels' the nasty, a lot of people just re-absorb it. We got rid of it OTHER ways that weren't so obvious. But, it's clearing..

 

[beckah54]

I think I was at the three or four month mark before I started coughing up junk but it's been a while and I can't remember specifically.

 

[AMBKJ]

Me!!

Smoked a pack a day for 25 years and never once had a 'hacking up a lung' episode to show my lungs were 'clearing'.

But, that being said, I'm ALSO a Paramedic and not everyone 'expels' the nasty, a lot of people just re-absorb it. We got rid of it OTHER ways that weren't so obvious. But, it's clearing..

Ooh that do make me feel bettah! Still I wonder why I hacked so much before when I didn't have a cig. I guess it's all good though!

I just took a deeeeep breath (didn't think of that before) and it feels pretty darn good. I think I am able to breath a little deeper than before.

 

[AMBKJ]

I think I was at the three or four month mark before I started coughing up junk but it's been a while and I can't remember specifically.

Yeah I shouldn't hold my breath (pun intended). My immune system could be running really slow. This is also good information, thank you! Something to look forward to (Not!)

 

[beckah54]

Yeah I shouldn't hold my breath (pun intended). My immune system could be running really slow. This is also good information, thank you! Something to look forward to (Not!)

No, as I remember, it wasn't very attractive but I did breathe better afterwards.

 

[mini_art]

I am 4 months into no cigs and am just now starting to cough stuff up.
took a long time to put it there, I am thinking it will take a while to get rid of it.

 

[honuhart]

8 months here and i never did...

 

[Nyxie]

I still have no coughing up junk either. It has been 2 months now.
I have only noticed that I have no wheezing anymore and can actually blow up baloons for parties without being winded. The wheezing only really started when they added the carpet glue(so I have read, thats what it is) to cigs to make them self extinguishing.

 

[AMBKJ]

WOW. I'm just so surprised. Thank you for all replies.

 

[sunkissedbeach]

I never coughed even when I quit and didn't replace the habit with an e cig.
I have now quit for over 9 months and have not coughed but stopped feeling tight in my chest in the morning within the first couple of days.

 

[zoiDman]

I never have "Hacked up a Hair Ball" while I smoked or after I quit. But one thing that I have noticed is that my nasal passages seem to be much clearer.

 

[GregH]

8 months here and i never did...

Over 13 months here and neither did I. I kept waiting to cough up the crud that other people described, and it just never happened for me. Smoked for 21 years too.

I just took a deeeeep breath (didn't think of that before) and it feels pretty darn good. I think I am able to breath a little deeper than before.

Yeah. It snuck up on me. My moment of realization was when I was walking the dogs up one particular hill that I always dreaded before because it almost always killed me. I got to the top and realized that I wasn't out of breath. I wasn't even remotely winded. Then I started paying more attention to my breathing and realized that... well... that I could breath.

 

[AMBKJ]

Usually a really deep breath would cause pain, or a fit of coughing. But no more! I need a really good belly-laugh because those always threw me into a coughing fit. Just one incredibly funny joke...I need some good slapstick...

 

[Hendry]

I never have "Hacked up a Hair Ball" while I smoked or after I quit. But one thing that I have noticed is that my nasal passages seem to be much clearer.

My nasal passages are much clearer as well. When I was smoking I was constantly blowing my nose, people used to ask me if I had a cold all the time.

 

[Leezon]

I never coughed up junk. But for the first week or so I was feeling like I had no energy after giving up analogs.

Also as AMBKJ said, I don't get the pain in my lungs when taking a deep breath when I wake up anymore.. I had that every morning when I smoked analogs.

 

[Seabrook]

When I first started vaping and quit cigarettes, besides having congestion and a drippy nose, I also had a huge lump in my throat. I could even feel it draining. Not sure what that was about, but it did worry me. It did go away after about a month. I probably drowned it, LOL, as much water as I chugged all day every day.