# I quit smoking, and I can't stop coughing!

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [September 18, 2011, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-quit-smoking-and-i-cant-stop-coughing/596721 "2011-09-18T16:32:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![NurseCarmen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5daacb/32.png) [@NurseCarmen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NurseCarmen)\
**Post date:** [September 19, 2011, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-quit-smoking-and-i-cant-stop-coughing/596721/21 "2011-09-19T19:51:46Z")

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I would cough like crazy every time I quit. The last time I quit, the one that took, I coughed a lot, and just ignored it. Finally after a few weeks I went to the doc, I had pneumonia. I credit the pneumonia with getting me over the hump. I really didn’t feel like smoking at all.

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**Author:** ![Jaledin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Jaledin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jaledin)\
**Post date:** [September 19, 2011, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-quit-smoking-and-i-cant-stop-coughing/596721/22 "2011-09-19T23:07:28Z")

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Could just be plain old allergies, though – these days, I don’t smoke much (maybe a pack every week or two), but allergies I didn’t ever have before have me waking up vomiting from the mucus ingested, I suppose, and hacking like a cartoon character.

At any rate, it will pass, even if it is your body getting rid of accumulated inhaled irritants.

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