Extremely informative! I have been experiencing this for two months, after quitting drinking alcohol.
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I am 45 and quit smoking about 2 years ago and still have constant phlegm and congestion in my chest.
I can never fully cough everything up and when I lay on my back at night I can hear it clicking as I breath in and out at times.
I will note that I have quit once for 1.5 years, again for 9 months and another time for 12 years. (I know, why did I ever go back after 12 years? #dummy )
Now that I have, once again, been free from nicotine's clutches for 2 years I will not look back.
But none the less, I have never had this phlegm issue any other time that I have quit smoking in the past. I would get the standard "clearing out phlegm" for a month or so and would eventually go back to normal.
But this time it isn't going away.
My PCP says that I just chose to play for too long and my body isn't regenerating like it used to due to my age.
But I find that hard to swallow as being the case, I am 45 not 85. I can see it taking longer to regenerate, but to be stuck like this because I chose to go back to smoking for 2.5 more years since the last time I quit?
I didn't have this problem when I quit then and I felt as good as if I never smoked after a short time.
I don't have insurance at the moment, so I am hoping to pick the collective brains of the internet in the hopes to find some answers.
Any thoughts or suggestions are welcome.
Thank you in advance.
I can never fully cough everything up and when I lay on my back at night I can hear it clicking as I breath in and out at times.
I will note that I have quit once for 1.5 years, again for 9 months and another time for 12 years. (I know, why did I ever go back after 12 years? #dummy )
Now that I have, once again, been free from nicotine's clutches for 2 years I will not look back.
But none the less, I have never had this phlegm issue any other time that I have quit smoking in the past. I would get the standard "clearing out phlegm" for a month or so and would eventually go back to normal.
But this time it isn't going away.
My PCP says that I just chose to play for too long and my body isn't regenerating like it used to due to my age.
But I find that hard to swallow as being the case, I am 45 not 85. I can see it taking longer to regenerate, but to be stuck like this because I chose to go back to smoking for 2.5 more years since the last time I quit?
I didn't have this problem when I quit then and I felt as good as if I never smoked after a short time.
I don't have insurance at the moment, so I am hoping to pick the collective brains of the internet in the hopes to find some answers.
Any thoughts or suggestions are welcome.
Thank you in advance.
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