A question came up about coughing up darkened phlegm after quitting. This string explains how the healing process can cause cold like symptoms or the coughing
up of tars collected over the years of smoking. These effects can go on for weeks or months for some people.
But life goes on without smoking, and sometimes there are other conditions that can cause the coughing up of dark specks. These conditions should never be ignored or written off to just not smoking.
Symptoms should be treated with the same caution as you would normally exercise when you were a smoker. If long enough or severe enough, getting checked out is a prudent course to follow. Once any problems are ruled out by your physician you will have the true peace of mind that the symptom is simply part of the healing and cleansing process that occurs from quitting.
Always know the best way to help prevent such problems in the future, and even more serious lung diseases that don't just have a short course of a week or two with a return to normal, is to keep your lung from ever being assaulted again from the thousands of chemicals, hundreds of poisons and 43 known carcinogens in tobacco smoke. The only way to stop this assault is to never take another puff!
Joel
But life goes on without smoking, and sometimes there are other conditions that can cause the coughing up of dark specks. These conditions should never be ignored or written off to just not smoking.
Symptoms should be treated with the same caution as you would normally exercise when you were a smoker. If long enough or severe enough, getting checked out is a prudent course to follow. Once any problems are ruled out by your physician you will have the true peace of mind that the symptom is simply part of the healing and cleansing process that occurs from quitting.
Always know the best way to help prevent such problems in the future, and even more serious lung diseases that don't just have a short course of a week or two with a return to normal, is to keep your lung from ever being assaulted again from the thousands of chemicals, hundreds of poisons and 43 known carcinogens in tobacco smoke. The only way to stop this assault is to never take another puff!
Joel
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