Lump in throat after quit smoking

I quite smoking almost two months ago and ever since I have felt terrible. My sinuses have been a mess and I have seen the doctor to no avail. Also, my stomach has been upset, somethig I never had before quitting. None of this is going to make smoke again, but I was wondering if others have had similar problems.

i feel like hell after quitting smoking

it's been a month now

i still feel a not in my chest and have a terrible time breathing

i dont snore anymore, or at least not like I use to! so the wife is happy to sleep with me.
I'm really having a lot of chest pain...yes, i know this is supposed to happen, but is there anything I can do to feel a little normal

my mother the nurse recommended breathing exercises and cardio
both have helped, but as soon as I'm done I'm right back to feeling like hell


I'm gonna try using an ice pack on my chest today
I'll come back and let you know

Try breathing heavy and working out cardiovascular style

I am so happy that I found this message thread that others are having similar problems! It's a relief.
I am a healthy 23 year old. I rarely get sick, only once in 2 years I smoked off and on for 5 years, most was 10 cigarettes a day- I have never had a lung infection, but after 6 weeks quitting I have hair on my tongue and a coat, mucus, and a reoccuring upper lung infection. Like everyone here, I am happy to have quit but bewildered at the symptoms! The medical community would have us believe that our symptoms are actually viral or bacterial sinus/lung/throat infections! The symptoms are the same!
I agree with the person on here who said:
"I suppose the lungs are springcleaning and refuse anything remotely irritating now, but as Dottie said, it would be nice if we were prepared for all the problems that can occur if you quit smoking and if the medical profession would not adhere to the axiom that quitting smoking is all good and cannot have unpleasant side effects. "
Has anyone found a website that shows these symptoms?
I am going to do the grapefruit seed extract as someone suggested but also found an interesting article on the "Naturopathic treatment of respiratory infections" that I will try, you can find it here:http://www.encyclopedia.com/printable.aspx?id=1G1:138483337
Hope it works.
We have all been having such severe reactions I wonder if it wouldn't have been better to use Nicotrol or something I didn't use a quitting agent
I quit "cold turkey"
o.O
I don't have the lump in my throat though. Please post on here if you find any new information!

did you try to quit slowely over a couple of weeks or all at once?

I just quit yesterday all at once and my throat is alredy starting to hurt. I think it puts the body in a mild shock or something. I really should of weened off the cigs but cold turkey is really the only thing that works for me. I have been able to quit multipal times for a years at a time, but hard times and beer bring back those cig craves big time.

>:( I am on day number 12 as a non-smoker.
I realize that there was to be discomfort, that I expected.
However, currently, I am finding it VERY hard to swallow and breathe.
My neck and throat feels like sandpaper cleaned it out and I cannot
drink enough water. (Which, by the way, is not making it feel any better.)

Before I quit I decided that weight gain was not going to be an issue.
I started a workout program before I quit and changed the way I ate as well.
(I.E. Portion control on my meals and less carbs and sugar in my diet.)

My main concern is about the pain and discomfort in my neck, throat and chest and/or lungs. After almost 2 weeks I would never have expected this pain and sickness to occur. Maybe I should also explain that I was only a 6-8 cigarettes a day smoker. Never a pack or packs. I am confused and will be calling my doctor in the morning.

Anyone feeling this way please place a reply and let me know I am not going through this alone.
Thank you. :-(

I try to quit... every pack is my last, I sometimes throw away a my pack with 5 or 6 cigs left and I hope it convinces me to stop smoking but no luck... well I only had 1 cigarette today, as opposed to my usual 4-6. and I borrowed it from someone. Well we'll see how it goes. This website inspired me though,

I quit 7 days ago. I have had chest pains and throat pains for over a year . I finally mentally decided I was going to quit for ever which Im sure we can all agree is the first and most important step to quittting. You can take all the gum or patches u want, but if your not mentally ready u will not succed. I am still feeling the severe chest pain but I don't give a sh*t. I WILL NEVER SMOKE again. The one thing I tell myself every morning when I wake up and I hope this helps others is: IT CAN ONLY GET BETTER FROM HERE!



just my 2 cents

Hi,

Good to see others have posted about their problems quitting smoking. Not just the quitting part, but the "side effects".

I've been trying to quit for a few months now, and I've had cold-like or asthma-like or something-like symptoms all along. The doctors thought it was allergies, sinusitis, and are stumped now.

My step-father quit after 20+ years of 2 packs a day. He was "healthy" before in that few colds, no coughing, etc. Now he has severe asthma, brutal cough spells all day and night, various respiratory infections, etc.

I think there isn't enough public knowledge about the body's reaction to stopping smoking and what to potentially expect. If anyone has good links please share.

-JS

I've been trying to quit smoking for almost a year. I'll stop smoking for anywhere from one day, to 1 week, then start smoking only on my lunch breaks, then only after dinner, etc. This is about a 2 month cycle for me and EVERY TIME I try and quit, I get "tonsillitis". The doctors don't know what it is, antibiotics don't help, I test negative for strep. It was my wife who pointed out "every time you quit smoking you get sick". She was right. I wasn't getting sick because I smoke, I was getting sick because I was trying to quit.
I will say this though: usually after 1 full week of not smoking I do feel physically stronger, mentally more alert, it's easier to concentrate on work related stuff, even if it's boring, but with a sore throat. After 2 weeks, I feel like I'm 18 years old again. (I'm 29) I can run farther, faster, lift more wieght, sex drive doubles, maybe even triples. But that damn sore throat still kicks my ass.
I'm going to continue to try and quit, maybe with the patch this time. All the other times have been unassisted.

I stopped smoking March 10, 2007. Almost immediateley after I developed the WORST sore throat. And my ears were constantly popping.
I tried several OTC to no avail. So it was off to the doctor.

They prescribed antibiotics, which did nothing. During the second bout
of antibiotics I began to have stomach pains and constant naseusa.
Three visits to the doctor and still no answers or relief.

I feel better knowing that other ex smokers are experiencing this. Well,
knowing that quitting smoking is the cause. I will never have another puff again.
The medical community really needs to be enlightened about this.

Would appreciate any informative links about this.

Thanks and good luck to everyone.

WELL , I NEVER BEEN A SMOKER. THAT GREAT ALL OF YOU STOP SMOKING.MAY GOD HELP YOU WITH THIS BATTLE. G

To all of you out there who is interested in reading this, firstly let me ask you one question - Why are you reading this short message, & the answer, because you all want to succeed (good). My name is Seamus & i live in Ireland, i am 38 yrs of age & have been smoking from i was approx 13 yrs of age, a big mistake i know that now. Over the year's i have tried on numerous occasions to stop but failure each time, some times i would only last a few days & the longest length was ten weeks. But last summer i decided that i would approach this from a new angle & guess what, it works. I read up a lot of web sites about quitting smoking & one thing that most web sites had in common was this, when you quit always have something with you to keep your hand's working to keep your mind off smoking. At this stage i was still smoking that was august 2006 (10 month's ago). But smoking was not the only problem that i had, i am 6'3' in height and have always been well under weight, could never gain more than 2-3 pounds, therefore i was always very self conscious of being skinny so i was also determined to do something about this aswell. So after reading a lot of stop smoking web sites i decided to look up weight gaining web sites & there are a lot of those also, but i came across one site in particular www.skinnyguy.net by Anthony Ellis he is a bodybuilder & also the Author of Skinnyguy after reading a lot of testamonials on his site i decided to purchase his books on line, i thought at the time 'what the heck' it's only a few Euro, i received the books in super fast time approx 6 days from America, spent the first couple of days reading the books & from that moment on i have not looked back. Three days later it was a sunday the 27 august 2006 i decided that i was going to quit smoking from the next day, and i did. Before i went to bed that night i enjoyed my last cigarette then threw the rest of them in the bin, broken up of course then i had a shower and put all of my clothes in for a wash i also got rid of all the ash trays in the house, then went to bed. I got up the next morning at 8am to leave my son to school but i was feeling very nervous, when i came back to the house at about 9.15am i had a cereal for my breakfast then i went straight to the gym, the gym is a place that i never went to in all my life 'til that morning. I had a good chat with one of the gym instructors who now happens to be a very close friend & i explained to him that i have just stopped smoking today & i want to gain muscle weight, not fat. He was very helpful to me & started me in the gym there & then, i had told him about the books that i got from Skinnyguy & he asked if he could borrow them, which i did, he done me out a weight gaining / muscle building program within one week of me starting in the gym & do you know what it was the best decision that i made in my life. Today is the 24 june 2007 & i have not touched one cigarette since the night that i quit & i feel great also i started at the gym ten months ago weighing 145 pound & today my weight is an incredible 215 pound of muscle not fat well (10% fat). I look good i feel good & people are all the time commenting on how well i look. I f i can stop smoking & gain the weight that i did & feel the way that i now do well then so can anyone. I believe that the answer is Motivation, you must be motivated to keep going. At times it was hard but with motivation & thinking of the reasons why i wanted to do what i did it really will work for you. I am just an ordinary Irish bloke sitting writing my story & hoping that you will believe in yourself. Believe in yourself & you are half way there. I hope that my story gets posted on your site because if it is not ,that means i sat here for a good while typing this story for nothing. If anyone want's to get in touch with me personally i will be more than happy to help motivate you & will give you all the encouragement that you need & we will all have made new friend's on top of everything else. My e-mail address is _[removed]_ please send me a message i am on the computer most evenings & will get back to everyone very quickly, for now i wish you all good luck & god bless. Seamus

I have been off cigarettes for 1 year, 8 months, 16 days, 23 hours! Not that I'm counting or anything ;^)
Anyway, I get a build up of mucous or phlegm in my throat. At my trachea, I think. Sometimes it takes a lot of loud growling to get it to loosen up to I can spit it out but other times, it feels like I have a pool of it down there and it is really easy to get rid of it but it can make me vomit when I do.
It really sucks but I'm still glad that I quit and will never start again. I have heard that this can last for up to five years so hang in there all you quitters. ;^)

Everything you read about quitting is bloody propaganda; the truth apparently is not "politically correct" thing to say. Only here I found some real information and I can share my experience.



When 6 years ago I quit smoking (after decades of 20 c/day):



-my lungs were unbearably "itching"

-I felt a lump in my throat

-I had sudden fits of overwhelming sleepiness

-I had to take medicine to calm down my jumping heart

-all my will-power went to quitting, nothing left for anything else for months

-I started spitting green- then brown- then light-red blood (bronchoscope showed no pathology)

-everything I eat seamed to stay in me an extra day- constipation, swollen bowels, growing weight, bad smell



I was preparing myself for withdrawal symptoms but what was happening, was far beyond this. And- no information supplied by the doctors was giving any hint.

And still I was lucky- my brother, within weeks of quitting, had his joints attacked by arthritis. Only then the doctors admitted that it was probably due to severe imbalance of his immune system caused by quitting.



After two years I have started smoking again, this time "super light" cigarettes. Well, maybe they were better for my heart, but generally it was bad idea- they are no better for your lungs, in the long run I even started feeling withdrawal symptoms while still smoking, probably due to low nicotine content.

So I am quitting again, 10 days, and this time I do not have digestive problems yet but the feeling in my throat is worse. I hope I will make it.



Lets share information and help each other.

I stopped smoking (mainly weed), with a few lapses, recently and am experiencing very similar symptoms described on here. I decided to stop after going to a music festival in June as when I came back I had a really bad lung infection. (too much smoke and general alcohol abuse and not enough sleep!). I started hacking up a lot of spit with brown flecks of tar in. Its still coming up now 5 months later - which I guess is a good thing (better out than in!). It makes you realize how bad smoking is for you.

I made my doctor send me for a chest xray which came back clear and am going for an endoscopy with an ENT specialist is a couple of weeks time as my throat feels really odd. I know it's probably nothing serious but I need the reassurance.

It's good to read that people are experiencing similar symptoms to me. I'm 29, male btw. Been smoking heavy since I was 16-17. Let's hope I stopped in time!