Didn't expect this nasty cough!
Hi!
I've only been smoking for approx 1 year and I just quit this Friday. Between always feeling like I'm just waiting for my next cigarette, looking at my bank account and seeing what it's really costing me, and starting to really consider the long-term effects this will have the longer I wait to kick this, I am ready to quit. I've been chalking this up to social smoking (living in the UK) but it's quickly become a part of my everyday routine now.
However, in the 48 hours after I quit I was feeling so sick. I had a throbbing headache, I was drowsy, I developed a wheeze in my voice if I went to long without speaking. Now, nearly 4 days since my last cigarette and I cannot stop coughing. It's so painful and loud. It feels like a dry cough with a little bit of phlegm at the back of my throat. I can't seem to manage it no matter how much water and tea I'm drinking. I went to bed at 1am and woke up at 4am without being able to go back to sleep.
I knew there might be withdrawal symptoms, the craving for cigarettes, but I wasn't expecting this! I now know that it seems to be the cilia in my lungs taking the opportunity to clear out the shi*t I've been pumping into them.
I'm wondering if anyone who has smoked for as long as I have has had this issue to this extent and how long it lasted. Maybe there is something that I might be able to do to help either speed up this process or to ease the pain.
I'm starting to get discouraged that I'll be stuck like this for weeks or months up to a year!
Any help or advice, even kind words would be much appreciated. I'm trying to stay as committed as possible to quitting, just need to get out of this slump.
-Thanks, Noel
Hi Noel , I'm from the UK , I'm on day 3 I'm 41 and have smoked for 23 years , I'm the same constant headache feel sick dizzy coughing phlegm up it's all totally normal hang in there my friend we can do this 💪🏼
Hi Noel, every one has his own withdrawal problem but every one can win this sh*t no matter the false problems it initially gives you. Just remember the worst is to come if you slip now. I saw my friend and brother being amputated twice and finally I also saw him dying. No kidding. We were both 43 when he died and it was just two weeks ago. He refused to listen to the doctor. I even did not realize it before it was too late. "In case you may find this helpful: " Never take another puff. It seems so simple. If you want to quit smoking all you need
to do is to never take another puff. There you have it-a roadmap for breaking free from
one of the deadliest scourges ever to hit mankind. Nearly five million people a year die
from smoking. Many knew the dangers and wanted to quit but didn't feel as if they knew
how to break away from such a complicated and powerful addiction. Truth be known,
this is not a complicated addiction and while on the surface it may seem powerful, in
truth, it is not. Yes there are lots and lots of people who smoke until it kills them but it is
not that they couldn't quit. It's that they didn't have the understanding of what was needed
to quit, and more importantly, what they needed to do to stay quit. Again, the answer to
both is to never take another puff." Joel Spitzer author of Never take another puff. A very helpful book."