I’ve been smoking 3 years straight, sometimes 12 a day.
How come I don’t have mucus in my throat?
And I can breathe perfect too.
I thought cigarettes wouldn’t do anything to me but it must be damaging my body and aging me.
Time to give up.
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I smoked ciggies for 9 years and I never developed a smokers cough.
While cigarettes are horrible for you, some people’s health declines quicker than others who smoke too.
You’ll also find some smokers (not many) who smoke for 60 plus years and make it into their 80’s and they are pretty healthy.
Then you’ll have some who smoke for 20 years and get lung cancer/have a heart attack and die young.
Its too big of a gamble though. Not worth it.
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When you smoke as many gravity bongs as I have, cigarettes are no where near as harsh as that
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Still will most likely kill you at a young age
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My father smoked from age 15 to the day he died, 67 years old.
No excessive coughing.
But his lungs were very damaged.
No cough though.
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I’m still gonna vape. Idk if there’s any studies on lung damage from vapes. I’ll have to check it out. I’m so addicted to puffing on something.
Think of it this way. If you go to a barbeque place, you know how the bbq meat is blackened from the smoke?
Well, that’s essentially what tobacco smoke is doing to your lungs over time.
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This is true. But I am 37 years old, and I have smoked for 26 of them. My fate will be what it will be.
To be honest I am surprised by how things have changed over this period of time, and never expected to get this far.
Was in self-destruct mode for a very long time, and now I am happy I have the opportunity to be there for people who were there for me when they could have easily ditched me - like many did.
It’s makes me laugh that all those good people who assumed I was in a never ending death spiral never got to meet the more reasonable person that now exists.
But who can blame them.
I don’t think of it as borrowed time anymore as I have come back from the brink and now everything just feels like a bonus - I really shouldn’t be here.
Smoking is something I have always enjoyed, and if it does eventually kill me, I won’t regret doing it at all.
Sorry for getting philosophical on a thread about smokers cough.
Not interested in ‘eking’ out my existence. I want to do the things I enjoy, but obviously not to the very extremes that I used to.
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I used to hit these things called “poppers” in high school.
You essentially shove a chunk of tobacco into a stem, and put a little weed on top.
I did it for a short amount of time, but it was so damaging.
i didnt get a cough either til i smoked 2 packs unfiltered a day. besides that tho the cough starts tho when u quit. because the smoking kinda makes the cough reflex lazy so ur body cant clear ur lungs. when u quit then the cough reflex kicks in and starts clearing ur lungs.
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I enjoyed cigarettes for 32 years, then quit smoking and vaping about a year ago. A month ago i was diagnosed with COPD. There’s times where it’s very difficult to take a deep breath, and often i have to use a nebulizer to breathe easily. I never had a smokers cough. The damage is irreversible, and now a common cold might kill me. My advice is to quit as soon as you can…
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The biggest crime against humanity is someone telling you what you can or cannot do.
Decide for yourself. It’s obviously yourself you are asking. I get frustrated with this one myself, when people tell me not to, then I do and build bigger and greater things in my life.
One day we are gonna laugh at all the haters, make the choice yourself, it’s obviously something you can or cannot control deciding on how you feel.
FYI, the reason schizophrenics smoke, literal proven fact, is that it’s fighting against the antipsychotics that dumb you down dopamine wise. It’s an instant hit of dopamine, something schizophrenics are deprived of greatly from antipsychotics.
It helps break down the metabolites of them in the body in an attempt to reduce, i’ve researched the science
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You mean midi-chlorians…
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Yeah I’ve read about that too.
@dreamer54 I guess to each their own, for me it was olanzapine metabolites
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I smoked for about 18 years. Now im 30. Never had a smokers cough. But i do feel short of breath at times. Like i cant quite get the oxygen to the deep parts of my lungs. But its getting better since ive been going for 30 minute jogs most days. The part i hated the most about smoking was how much it makes you stink. I like to smell good. Lucky i didnt get any major health issues from it. If i kept going i definitely would have, having picked it up when i was 12.
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