I started seeing positive results about my 4th week of not smoking / vaping. Long term smoking, in my case 37 years, plays havoc on your body. Give it a bit longer and you should start to feel better. I swear I feel a bit better every single day.
Wheezing
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My cough loosened a bit today and I finally was able to get some of it up...it's a strange new world where I get excited about coughing up creepy looking crud 
When my son had part of his lung removed, cysts when he was 3, the doctors wanted him to cough to strengthen his lungs. He is a very healthy young man of 32 years. So cough up that junk! 
Like has been said, each person is different and just because two people can smoke the same amount, the damage or junk collected is different with each person. Some inhale deeper into the lungs, some do shallow inhales.
Like has been said, each person is different and just because two people can smoke the same amount, the damage or junk collected is different with each person. Some inhale deeper into the lungs, some do shallow inhales.
I never had a consistent wheeze when smoking but I have it less now. I do notice when I use s 50/50 blend I get a little wheeze or even with an 80/20 PG/VG that is spicy like Cinnamon I get a wheeze. I think the latter may be a slight lung irritation kind of like asthma ... time will tell and i think I'll stop ordering flavors like peppermint, cinnamon and such.
This post has given me some hope. I too have trouble with wheezing. Dr said allergies led to some asthma ... but then said mild copd, which she said asthma IS copd. Confusing....but nonetheless...this post has given me hope that it isn't too late for me to try.
I had a blu disposable a couple weeks ago, and decided when we went to a fish fry that I was just going to DO IT. So when everyone went out to smoke, I used the e-cig. Seemed to make me cough as much or more than analogs! And wheezing that night (I don't wheeze all the time). So that scared me about going bigger - into eGo that sis sent me with e-juice. I guess my fear is .. it's bad the way it is - cough a lot, cough jags at times that are embarassing! and some asthma attacks that I have to get out of room and cough it out. Use inhaler at night sometimes. I need to write a separate post about all this but wanted to thank you for talking about the wheezing and how it can get better.
I had a blu disposable a couple weeks ago, and decided when we went to a fish fry that I was just going to DO IT. So when everyone went out to smoke, I used the e-cig. Seemed to make me cough as much or more than analogs! And wheezing that night (I don't wheeze all the time). So that scared me about going bigger - into eGo that sis sent me with e-juice. I guess my fear is .. it's bad the way it is - cough a lot, cough jags at times that are embarassing! and some asthma attacks that I have to get out of room and cough it out. Use inhaler at night sometimes. I need to write a separate post about all this but wanted to thank you for talking about the wheezing and how it can get better.
My mom spent 4 days hospitalized for COPD attack. She is 80, smoked 62 years. Came home with O2, nebulizer, Spiriva, Advair, etc. She quit smoking (less than PAD) and has been vaping for 7 weeks. Now she has dropped the O2, but still does the nebulizer once per day, Advair twice and Spriva once. Her doctor has been very supportive of vaping. It is strange that she rarely coughs. Her stamina has improved and she is gardening some for the first time in over 5 years. Her doctor kept telling her to quit those d##n cigarettes.
I smoked over 40 years and once I started vaping and got completely off analogs, my wheezing stopped within about 3 days. No more coughing and flem mostly gone. 5 days after quitting had to walk up a hill for about 2 blocks and was the first time I can remember where I made it all the way up without having to stop to catch my breath. I now can take full breaths, can smell a cigar or cigarette 100 feet away at least, and for some reason my taste buds are more alive. This is all enough to keep me from going back!!
Still wheezing but hopeful. Most days I have a annoying dry cough every once in awhile it'll loosen enough to feel it loosen in my lungs. This time of year it's hard to tell smoking damage from allergy symptoms.
^^^ That. As someone who has a Doctor who plays a Doctor in real life - and an Allergist - they both gave the same information. What stopping smoking does is prevent you from doing further damage to your lungs, but it does not reverse damage that may have already been done. As my Allergist said, if that were true then everyone who developed emphysema from smoking could cure it by quitting. It doesn't work that way.
Once you get the muck out of there that your lungs could not clear on a day to day basis and stop piling on more tar, then you breath easier and exertion is easier, but you don't grow a new lung or two after you quit. You do not get back lung capacity, you get what you had (left) that can now work in a free and clear environment.
Probably why this is so screwed up for a lot of people is the quit smoking "facts" on the American Cancer Society are a bit misleading. They say:
That's misleading without explanation and most people misinterpret it. Your lung function only "increases" in context of the removal of all the lung goo that was getting in the way. What you are then left with is not a bigger and better damage-free lung, only what you have left working as best it now can with no cigarette crap in place.
I don't mean to come off as harping on this, but it's a dope slap that needs to be done. First to the ACS for not updating that same, tired spew they have been putting out for decades. And for anyone who is smoking, so they understand the reality of smoking better and not in the rosier than it should be presented quit smoking gains at the ACS web site. If anything, the ACS quit time line implies that you can put it off. After all, you are going to be getting things back any time you decide to quit. No hurry no worry then. Have a chat with your MD about the benefits of quitting instead to get a better reality check and the time line in which any benefits occur.
For the OP it could take up to nine months to finally land regarding your lungs clearing out the crap. But for wheezing the reality check needs to be done with your MD to understand what your situation is and whether you were hovering on the edge of serious lung damage like emphysema. We can only hope from this end of things, it's up to you to do your own medical check to understand where things are at.
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@Rickajho:
wow! Great posting!
And I learned something today:
The same things (as the text you quoted) are written here in Germany.
Like "X years after you quit smoking, your body will be as if you had never smoked at all".
Thank you very much for this explanation. I appreciate it!
And yes, I agree, the official texts are highly misleading. And I took them at face value, until I read your great explanation.
Yes, I can breathe again, now as a vaper. Because I no longer have all that crap clogging up my lungs. I coughed it all out, when my morning smokers cough continued for 3 weeks after I started vaping. But now it is gone. Because I am not re-filling it, so to speak.
But that does not mean that I can climb mountains or hop around like a bunny rabbit After all, I used to smoke 1 PAD or more for 35 years. And I am no spring chicken
Thank you very much indeed for the great explanation!
wow! Great posting!
And I learned something today:
The same things (as the text you quoted) are written here in Germany.
Like "X years after you quit smoking, your body will be as if you had never smoked at all".
Thank you very much for this explanation. I appreciate it!
And yes, I agree, the official texts are highly misleading. And I took them at face value, until I read your great explanation.
Yes, I can breathe again, now as a vaper. Because I no longer have all that crap clogging up my lungs. I coughed it all out, when my morning smokers cough continued for 3 weeks after I started vaping. But now it is gone. Because I am not re-filling it, so to speak.
But that does not mean that I can climb mountains or hop around like a bunny rabbit
After all, I used to smoke 1 PAD or more for 35 years. And I am no spring chicken Thank you very much indeed for the great explanation!
COPD is now a catch all for just about every breathing problem.
We have been vaping for 4 months and my wife seems to be getting worse. I doubt that vaping is causing it. We just waited too long to do something about smoking. She has a family history of emphysema and was told she had chronic bronchitis 20 years ago.
We have been vaping for 4 months and my wife seems to be getting worse. I doubt that vaping is causing it. We just waited too long to do something about smoking. She has a family history of emphysema and was told she had chronic bronchitis 20 years ago.
My 5th day smoke free, I woke up and wondered what was odd... then realized it was the LACK of wheezing/gurgling in my lungs. I still have asthma, that will never go away, and when asthma flares (stress, excessive laughter, crying, just woke up), there's still a bit of wheezing at times, but not *nearly* as much as before. And, I find that I can now sleep on my back, which I've been unable to do for about 30 yrs, because of the asthma.
I still need my inhaler on a regular basis -- I don't take maintenance type drugs for my asthma, because their side effects are WORSE than asthma, I just use a rescue inhaler up to 8 puffs per day. I find that I still need those, but they actually WORK, instead of me having to cheat and take even more.
Andria
I am sorry about your wife Paul.
I am euphoric about the positive changes I have experienced since switching to vaping. That said, after 40+ years of smoking, I will never stop looking over my shoulder and hoping that I quit in time.
That's pretty much how I feel too; I had this sort of "superstition" that I needed to quit before I had smoked for 40 yrs. I got here in January, and newbie that I was, gave myself till the end of this year to quit smoking. Discovered that it worked so well, I managed to quit before the end of February! Which was before I even *quite* made it to 39 yrs (that will be May 6, but I smoked my last on Feb 27).
I think maybe I did make it in time; when I quit drugs, I had a strong feeling that I was "led" to that choice; same, when I quit drinking, that sense of being led, spiritually. When I came here, I was just looking for some means of satisfying my habit that would keep me from having to go outside and freeze to death twice an hour, but I was *led* step by easy baby step, till I found that quitting smoking was the only rational choice to make -- I felt kinda dumb smoking just one a day for 3 days in a row, like pulling off a bandaid one hair at a time. That first smoke-free morning was a *little bit* of a challenge, but I got thru it, and I knew that meant I could really do it; none of the challenges I've faced since have been anything like as difficult -- though getting BCC's to work properly *can* be quite challenging!
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