Shortness of breath after stopping smoking

the only thing witch helpt me , is a ultrasound nebulizer with salt. its effective, it get out 1 or 2 dl tar.

I've smoked for 35 years, it has been a year and 3 months since I quit smoking. and now I don't want to walk or do anything because of my shortness of breathing, how long it will take to clear? when I'm talking or not, there's a flam stuck in my throat, constantly trying to clear it. It is so annoying, never been to a doctor before, I went recently for x ray Dr. told me to it will take time to clear, I'm 58 years old lady, my only medication is Advil for once in a while headaches.

and where do you get this done at?

How old are you , and how much do you weight ?

you can buy it , on the net or som place you can find healt stuff,  like blood pressure monitor device,  and buy som  sterile salty water and  put it in the maschin and inhalate te mist. attenchion : if large qantities of muchus com out your puls may go to 122 for few hours , but i think its whort it. for me it helpt a great deal, but its not a chure , i steel feel like hel but moving and thinking becomed mor easi.

Oh it sort of like being at the beach inhaling that fresh salty air, that sounds great When I go to the beach I always breath great, Thank you.

When you quit smoking please dont think you can just have one cigg and it want really matter, It will. and in a big way, and your quit time starts all over, But this time it will take over twice as long for sob to go away, So please dont smoke till your sob is gone for a few months before you even think about smoking again and if you do smoke again make sure its E-cig because regular cigs will take you 10 times as long to get over sob again Use your brain and give it all up. Thanks,

lala27858, I too had smoked for 50+ years and just recently (Mar 2013) quit for what I hope is the last time. It feels different this time and one can only hope. As for the shortness of breath, I have this too and it has been occurring more frequently lately. I've been a 'Gym Rat' for the past 4 years going 4 - 5 times a week working out 1-2 hours each time and thought my quitting would help the shortness of breath but to my surprise and dismay, it only increased and now occurs at rest or when I'm just walking. Very discouraging. I can't seem to cough up this gunk either. I feel like it is right there to cough up, but no joy. There are also times when I have a 'dry cough' and all it produces is a foul taste in my mouth. I plan to see my Dr. soon for an annual physical, XRAY and CBC. I have some reservations about going but I guess I may be damned if I do and stupid if I don't. I don't have any answers, but it is somewhat good to know that others are experiencing these symptoms too.

omg so glad I found this. I've been having shortness of breath after quitting 7 weeks ago. It's not all the time and seems to happen mostly when I'm not actually doing anything. I also get a bad headache at least once a day. I knew this would suck, but I didn't think it would get worse 7 weeks into it. 

You know we wonder why alot of the people who posted on here never came back! could it be that they droped out? I think so, and if I m wrong let us hear from you, you got what you wanted, now help the new people comming here with their problems. it would help alot of suffers. Thanks, Ralph

You know we wonder why alot of the people who posted on here never came back! could it be that they droped out? I think so, and if I m wrong let us hear from you, you got what you wanted, now help the new people comming here with their problems. it would help alot of suffers. Thanks, Ralph

I'm 27, smoked a pack(usually less) a day for 11 years and quit almost 3 months ago. I have similar symptoms however mine came on mildly this year before I quit smoking. I would get occasional shortness of breath and feeling like I had to gasp a big breath sometimes. That and smokers cough prompted me to quit, which I did via an electronic cigarette. After about two weeks of not smoking I started feeling really bad, the shortness of breath would keep me up for hours at night and when I finally dropped off to sleep I'd wake up right away with a gasp as if I hadn't been breathing. That combined with the shortness of breath being worse when I was tired was a complete nightmare. It got bad enough one morning after a restless night of no sleep that I dropped into ER convinced I was dying. They couldn't find anything wrong with my breathing/blood pressure etc and told me to see my doctor to get properly checked up. Over the 2months since then, I've had a spirometry test, several different blood tests and a chest x-ray. None of them showed anything wrong. My doctor is convinced that it's depression/anxiety related however I'm having a hard time accepting that and certainly don't want any medication for those. I'm signed off from the doctors now unless I feel any worse. I've used this S.O.B as motivation to clean up my life, I used to drink at least 3L of Pepsi max every day, have a poor diet and rarely do any exercise. As a result I was very close to being overweight. I've cut out nicotine, cut out caffeine, vastly improved my diet and now run 3 miles 3 times a week, walk 5 miles most days and have even got my aged mountain bike out of the shed to get around town on instead of driving. Exercising actually eases my breathing, combined with a steamy shower afterwards I can be at peace for an hour. I feel much more positive and I am now able to sleep properly at night again, I just need my breathing to feel normal again! This thread has been a great help to me in the last couple of months, reading your stories has given me a great deal of comfort. JR

So, here's my story. I'm a 35 yo gal, smoked for 22 years, and nearly 3 weeks quit. I'm going through some major life changes at this point, and something I heard on TV a few weeks ago really resonated with me. That Iyanla show was on (background noise), and the thing that caught my ear was when she said something to the effect of: when you're going through major changes in your life, it's your opportunity to change. Being at a crossroads is the best time to begin to live differently, and the window for that chance is not very big so don't let it close without coming closer to becoming the person you want to be. If you always do the same thing, make the same choices, you will always get the same out of life.  I was at that crossroads, and I jumped. I havent smoked since that day. I also havent drank at all since then, I've tried to quit on numerous occaisions before and the downfall was always the beer. Beer and smokes are peas in a pod. This quit really feels different than previous ones. I really want it this time. I want to life differently. I've started jogging and doing weight watchers to improve myself as well. I am taking wellbutrin to help with cravings and apparantly it's doing the trick because I haven't had a craving one.  I found this thread two days ago because I was yawning a lot. Like, a LOT. I mean like bouts of yawning 45 minutes long every 30 seconds to every minute or so. I was thrilled to find this info because most of what I was finding was yawning related to brain cancer. That had me nervous! Now that I understand what's going on it's easier to deal with by deep breathing every few breaths, and not freaking out when the breaths seem to "catch", when I can't complete them. I'm actually going to take a few singing lessons to learn to breathe all over, that and it's a good reason to do something I've wanted to for a long time.  I'm sad to see that Diane hasn't posted since the diagonsis was made and I hope she's braving through. I too would like to hear from some of the "old timers" from the earlier pages of the thread for encouragement. Good luck to all, and keep posting updates. This is a good community to be part of. 

You can tell when your shortness of breath is gonna end by the amount of mucus comming out of your nose, as it gets less and kess so will the production of lung mucus when your nose goes dry so will your lungs good bye sob.

Today is day 50 of my quit, I started doing a little better on my breathing after week 5 just to slip a little about a week ago, since then it has got worse. Today I made it out to my scooter and rode it to the beach, looking at all the fine ladies when all of a sudden i went into a coughing fit dry then wet. gaging bad coulding quit till I almost passed out. finaly got it under control and left with a lot of wierd looks. I will be so glad when this sob goes away.