Shortness of breath after stopping smoking

I do feel the same... these days...

I'm 35 smoke two and a half packs a day I'M sure you will be fine do some exercises    

Smoked almost 40 years just quit one day been 3 weeks now, I cant breath at all it seems like. I sweat just sitting here almost like it takes everything I have to breathe. I feel miserable like you never get sick, but I don't feel like doing anything most in part of not being able to breathe. I told my wife today I might start smoking again just so I can breathe again. Just typing this out I am exhausted...just can't breathe.

Hang in there mate! See a doctor but next to that it is common unfortunately and it will get better after a while as well it won’t be as severe all the time. Drink lots of water/tea and if you can’t manage it use bronchodilators, they take of the edge. One page back I posted my two cents. Let you us know if there is anything you like to know. All the best. JMB

Kind of a late reply, but I totally get that too. I quit smoking twice. I’m on my second go around now. The first time I quit I did what you’re talking about for about a week! Would be ABOUT to go into a deep sleep and BAM I feels like I can’t breath for a split second and I wake up thinking omg I almost died my body is suffocating. After about a week it went away, it went away slowly though. I’m sure yours did. Thought I’d let you know you’re not alone.

I was a heavy smoker this past 4 years, and now I'm trying to quit smoking. While I'm doing the process it feels I have a heavy lungs, and its hard to breath. Every night I feel like there were a tons of thing in my chest. Any suggestion? Thanks.

Hi Kael, Please read my post one page back. I am in my 4th month and things get better but stil I have very bad days. All the best. JMB

I quit 6 weeks ago and still having heart palpatation and SOB, it comes when Im sitting down and relax. I was very fit person before quiting smoking, now I feel like I have a terminal illness but I am hoping this will get better as the time goes by. I cant see myself going back to smoking.

Wow! This makes total sense! I do feel worse when im sitting.

I got the patch and since i quit smoking, I'm having shortness of breathe way more than when i smoked. It sucks

when i was little (5-6 years old) this teenagers would try and make me pick used cigarettes off the ground and smoke them (i did and i did it quite a lot) and then over the years growing up ive found a couple full cigarettes on the ground and would smoke them and i realized omg i need to stop it will mess my whole life up and im having the same symptoms and im scared ive talked to my mom about it and she doesnt even case :((( idk what to do

I quit 1 year ago and now I'm a problem regarding about my breathing. shortness of breath after talking for few minutes or taking few step on stairs dunno if this is related to smoking and also experience upper arm pain both arms.

I coughed so hard i tore a muscle. Thought i broke a rib even went in for xrays. It can happen and takes weeks to recover from that

now I know what people are going through after quiting smokeing I gave up now going on five months and I get shortness of breath yet I hate it i haven,t been feeling good at all sence i quit hope it gets better

You wrote everything I have experienced just in the past three weeks. Reading your post and the others here are helping me immensely. I quit at the start of a mild sinusitis event that turned into pneumonia that cleared in ten days. About three days after I quit I became what I thought was asthmatic. I have since had all those tests, too, as well as the same rounds of antibiotics, etc. What people need to know is "STARTING SMOKING THEN QUITTING WILL CAUSE UNCONTROLLABLE ANXIETY, MILD TO SEVERE WHEEZING, AND SHORTNESS OF BREATH FOR AN UNSPECIFIED PERIOD OF TIME WHICH WILL SCARE YOU, COST YOU HUNDREDS IF NOT THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS, AND MAKE YOU MISERABLE." This is what should be printed on packs.