help!!!! seriously....

hello everyone. i am a 27yo smoker. i smoke herb and cigs. i have been smoking at least a pack a day since i was like 12. i also started smoking herb at this age. over the years i have had very few legit jobs so tend to smoke more than the average person. sometimes 2 packs a day!!! i also smoke about 5 grams of pot a day. im so hooked on cigs i held my brother as he died at 43 from smoking and i still proceed to smoke like a fiend. anyway what i want to know is about coughing. i have a horrible cough, like to the piont where i gag horribly. my friends always think im going to puke but rarely do. i take a small bong hit and cough my brains out like crazy. a little joint ill take a small hit and same thing. now i know its because of the butts. i plan on quitting very soon...but will i ever be able to take i a nice bong hit again. after i quit i mean. any feedback would be GREATLY appreciated......

love and light to you all

 

Just quit the bogesters and your cough will go away almost completely. That, and start running.

 

Lower them things monthly. Instead of taking a normal ciggerete take a lifesaver. I cant say much though ive never had a addiction like that. If that doesnt work, doctor that.

 

i know they have pills that cam help but i dont believe in taking pharmacuticals. ive quit heroin so i know i can do it. any older people out there who have experience with this out there?? lol thanks for your input. both of you.

 

woah dude, good job.

 

a pack a day? dude chillax on the cigs. cut down a lot. they barely do anything but hurt you.
dont have to cut down with weed, but use bongs, not joints or pipes

 

yeah i dont plan on cutting down on herb. when i take 1 bong hit it takes me like 20 minutes to recover. bongs used to be my prefered method but now its too tough.

 

thanks brother

 

23 years ago I quit a two pack a day habit--- cold turkey. Don't expect a walk in the park but putting it off ain't gonna make it any easier.

 

you've taken Dmt and still have addiction problems.. ?? I think you need to check and see if your hyperdrive is online.. youre doing it wrong.. ..

 

i wish i had good advice but i do want to offer my support, both of my grandparents quit smoking when i was growing up and so did a lot of my friends over the years.. i saw how tough it is but i also saw how happy they all are that they went through it. it shows a lot of strength that you were able to let go of heroin and if you can tap into that willpower again you can achieve anything my man. best wishes to you eace:

 

dmt has shown me alot about what im doing to myself....but the devil has this one last thing on me and i need to shake it off.....

 

thanks dazed. u think my cough will chill down too?

 

no prob. maybe it depends on the individual, but i think so..everyone i know who quit except for my grandpa doesn't have any kind of lingering effects. he smoked for over 40 years so he still has a lot of trouble today.
the sooner you let go the better chance you have at great health, and that is priceless.

 

thanks. are u a male or female? doesnt say on the profile...sorry to pry lol. just didnt know wether to call u brother or sister...

 

female, but you can call me either eace:

 

Then its not to late to fix them..

 

You gotta cut back on something man, you started smoking heavily at an age where the lungs are still very much in development, your brother died at even for lung cancer a young age for it which shows lung problems run in the family, your lungs can't handle the amount of smoke you're putting into them daily.

 

thanks everyone! especially my new sister dazed

 

If you managed to quit heroin then you are entirely capable of quitting cigarettes. Maybe this is just for me and for other people its different but. . . it seems to me like cigarettes are so addictive because they are so easy to get, you can smoke them any time you want, they don't get you high in a way that interferes with anything you might want or have to do, they give you an excuse to just go outside and have some alone time with yourself. . . etc. You couldn't just casually smoke a joint on your walk to work or class, smoke more joints on your breaks, etc. .. not only because of the legal consequences but also just because you'd probably get higher than you would have any reason to want to get.

I think the worst part is the fact that they come in packs of twenty. I was, on average, just under a pack-a-day smoker for about four years. I've always wanted to be able to just buy one or two cigarettes at a time because i would likely have only been a 1-2 cigarette a day smoker if that were the case! But since any time you want ONE cigarette you have to also get 19 other ones, you end up smoking those just cause they're there and because nothing is stopping you. Its probably the most insidious way tobacco companies keep people addicted.

I only just quit at the beginning of this year. I started getting a lump in my throat around the beginning of november, and it got worse and painful. The symptoms were pretty much identical to the list you'd find if you look up "throat cancer" on google so I got really, really scared. I have tried to quit a lot of times before, but I would always end up falling into a frame of mind in which I just didn't give a shit if I was killing myself, and I'd go back to smoking again.

It's not the best advice, as you don't want to wait for a death scare to get you to stop as it might be legitimate. I got lucky - I went to an ear nose and throat specialist finally (a couple weeks ago) and the doctor stuck a little snake-like scope up through my nose and down into my throat (which sucked, by the way - when the doctor wheels that thing in on a cart and tells you "This isn't as bad as it looks," he/she is lying). The doctor told me I had a nodule or something - as I understand it it was basically a scar or callous type of thing - on my vocal chords. She said it was probably caused by acid reflux disease - and though I'm skeptical of that (I honestly just think its all the shit I"ve smoked - weed, cigarettes, cigars (inhaled - and I honstly believe mostly responsible for what happened to my throat), spice blends (that shit burns in the throat like nothing I've ever inhaled), and probably some other stuff i can't remember.

The doctor saw no indication that I should worry about having cancer, which was awesome because that is exactly what i had worried about for almost half a year.

Despite finding out I'm not dying of cancer, I have continued to stay away from tobacco completely. I like not smoking it. I feel better physically and mentally. I don't have to have that anxiety about what I'm doing to my health constantly hanging around in my psyche. But, as I said, it wasn't until I believed that I was dying that I was motivated enough (and for long enough) to just stop smoking altogether.

I have even stopped smoking weed (and spice) altogether. It is a shame because I don't look at weed in a negative way like I do tobacco, but, contrary to what a lot of people here seem to believe, marijuana in all likelihood can give you cancer - unlike with tobacco, that cancer is more likely to occur in the throat rather than the lungs, which is a big part of the reason I've stopped.

Smoke damages your airways. Your body repairs damage by creating new cells. When your body creates new cells there is opportunity for an "accident," a mutation that woudl trigger one of these new cells to rogue and start working for itself rather than for you. If you're constantly subjecting your airways to new damage and your body is constantly trying to repair it, you're risk of cancer is going to be higher.

That marijuana smoke is less likely to cause lung cancer than tobacco is I totally believe.

That it is less likely to cause cancer in general. . . not so much.

If you're really concerned about your health you should stop smoking altogether.

Don't worry, if you're really dedicated to marijuana then perhaps you should look into other methods of ingestion. I'm trying to find a convenient way to ingest it that won't make my parent's kitchen smell like pot brownies. If anyone has any suggestions. . .

Also. . . five grams a day?! Good god. Does it even do anything for you anymore?