Quit smoking a year ago - sick ever since!

Hi there. I thought i did have pain in the arm but really rare. Entering my fifth month quitting, i felt mild upper back ache.

Left upper arm pain i have that

Right there, right now, 3 weeks in and have the burning lung feeling, the cough, glad to no it ends eventually

There is suck a thing called the smokers flu. I didn't get it but I've read quite a few people do. When I quit people and the Dr. didn't tell me anything either...didn't make me happy because I would like to know what to expect.

hey saw your comment online here does your withdrawls symptoms gone or still recovering

I have been "quitting" smoking for months now - would use a vape (don't do it), smoke only a few a day, then smoke none for a few days, etc..Ever since I have been sick. I have this unbearable feeling that something is wrong, but I don't know what it is and I would cry..One day I really really focused hard on my body and tried to feel where the problem is coming from. The best I could understand it, it's from the lungs...I think once we stop smoking our lungs start getting inflamed..And any organ in the chest gives referred pain - people with heart attacks feel pain in their hands, people with gastrointestinal symptoms can sometimes feel their feet hurt, liver pain often is felt in the shoulder..meaning once our lungs get inflamed, this "dull" pain gets created that can take the form of anxiety, malaise, flu symptoms or whatever. BTW nothing would aggravate this like my vape - I think the vapor is much "heavier" than the cigarette smoke and is a very strong irritant of the lungs. So for people experiencing malaise and chest symptoms, I'd say forget the vape, either quit cold turkey, or use a non-lung method of taking nicotine - patches, vaping only through the nose, etc.

I quit smoking same day as you did.I have still got quitter s flue,lungs irritation,dry mouth on and off not constant.It has been 9 months.

Please read on topic re "methylation" and smoking, which is the key to our metabolic process inside our body. When we smoke it interferes with main core processes. THE ONLY WAY is to NEVER smoke again and to support our body through healing no matter how long it takes!!
Starting smoking is one of the most stupid things I ever did!! I keep reading posts from this site for long time now, so helpful and supportive! let's find good fortune even in small health improvements and stay positive (Free 1 year, 3 months)

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Guys try some apple cider vinegar...smoking lowers blood ph, which frees potassium, and has many many effects on blood minerals. Increase your acid intake. Healthy vegetarian diet is the worst, increases ph even more especially whole grains. Also dont drink too much water

To add to that, people quitting smoking may also over-breathe, losing CO2 and leading to respiratory alkalosis. Stress also makes you alkaline. So does plant protein, like legumes, rice, etc. If you also stopped drinking fizzy drinks (that usually have pH 2-3 - acidic) you are really shooting yourself in the foot and you can try everything under the sun but you will feel horrible, because your pH is too high. E-juice is also alkaline (which you can measure with cheap litmus strips, as you can your urine), but tobacco is acidic due to the CO2.

This applies to people experiencing neurological symptoms like anxiety, depression, trembling, feeling weird, weak, etc. It won't solve coughing and stuff like that. But still worth a try. A tablespoon of vinegar in water, 3-5 times daily. Try it.

My urine pH was 8-9 and I had all kinds of weird stuff going on, mainly trembling, extreme weakness and anxiety and just feeling like I'm dying in general. Vaping would make it so so worse. After drinking some vinegar, urine ph is normal 6-7 and no more weird stuff going on, but it has been only a few days, but the urine ph normalizing is a very clear sign I'd say.

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I smoked for 15 yrs and quit on the 1st Aug 2017.. Its been 2 months plus and i am going thru what you guys had gone.. To me, Anxiety is the main obstacle i am facing. It's affecting my life style and work, feels like giving up but i knew its a process of recovery .. Any advise how to tackle Anxiety?

I am sharing the same problem as you..and i quit 2.5 months ago.. How are you now?

this is the first response i can just about identify with.
Iv quit smoking for 3 years, quite a lot of my symptoms have dissappeared but i feel as if my breathing is out of sync. I feel weak, dizzy, anxiety, and always end up having to slow my breathing down nearly everyday.
its been near 3 years i quit and have had all sorts of tests at the hosp but they cant find anything.
kindly give me more information on whats happening as i cant seem to find much.

Hi, well about the over-breathing thing, just read a book called "The Oxygen Advantage", it's all about curing many ailments by reducing your breathing. Also look up Buteyko method. You can try yoga, I think kundalini especially is hugely focused on reduced breathing. Your breathing will be automatically normalized if you do HARD cardio daily (By Hard I mean keeping heart rate 140 for like 20 minutes), but not a lot of people are willing to do that, and if you have a tendency to overbreathe, it can be particularly hard, because over-breathing during exercise will just make you exhausted, due to the alkalosis interfering with lactic acid mechanisms and whatnot. Reduced breathing exercises (or bag breathing) work very well from what I've been reading.

For a quick summary, due to Bohr's effect, the more you breathe, the less oxygen your tissues get. You need CO2 to release the oxygen into the tissues. When chronically overbreathing (from stress, quitting smoking, etc) your body's CO2 sensor gets too sensitive and supports that over-breathing. You have to train the CO2 sensor to be less sensitive, by practicing breath holds, breathing less, etc.