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Oof what? You must never have smoked a lot despitewhat you say. Because ive tried to quit a few times and ive only been smoking for 8 years, but every time after about a week i start coughing almost constantly. And the only thing to ease it wad smoking again.
Fun fact! Nicotine paralyzes your cilia.
Your cilia are a layer of fine hairlike structures that coat most of your respiratory tract. They whip / beat together rhythmically to push debris filled mucous up and out of your respiratory tract to your pharynx where it can be expelled by coughing or swallowed and processed by your digestive tract. When you smoke, they're paralyzed, allowing debris to build up (and man is there a lot of debris, on account of, y'know, the smoking).
About a week after you quit they wake up and yell,"WHAT THE FUCK IS ALL THIS SHIT?" Imagine if somebody came into your job and roofied you, smeared diarrhea all over the walls, then left. You'd be mad too. Give your cilia lots of water to help thin that mucous out and make their job a little easier during that stage.
Also read up on the other stages of quitting, it'll make it much easier once you're expecting these kinds of things.
I'm pretty sure I know what I smoked.
I quit because I started coughing up dark brown shit every morning; I always had some kind of congestion in my throat. I decided that I didn't want to do that anymore, so I stopped.
Everyone is different, maybe they got lucky. I quit about 15 years ago, and I still have cravings and I’m often smoking in my dreams. Nicotine is the worst.
I got soooo lucky. I smoked a bunch for a bit less than a year. One day, I had my morning cigarette and it felt AWFUL. No pleasure, just debilitation. I tried again the next day, same thing. Since then, I’ve smoked a few times and it’s always a mistake. My brain just stopped liking them.
Unfortunately it did the same thing with caffeine. I really miss coffee.
Weed, too. I miss getting high without feeling like I’m going to die.
Cigarettes, cigars, and pipes still smell wonderful to me, and if was free and wasn't going to kill me, I'd absolutely start again. But I haven't had any real cravings or dreams about smoking since about four months after I quit.