A friend of mine gave up smoking a year ago and since later she has be suffering from cold like symptoms, a runny muzzle and cough at night. She doesn't suffer near shortness of breath and doesn't cough up catarrh or anything, does this sound close to symptoms of emphysema or could it be astmah?

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She should go to a Dr but I can share you it is not emphysema. That illness feel like you own 1000 pounds on your chest and cannot breath. I smoked since I was 15 and I am turning 50 soon...after I quit smoking for the first year or so I coughed...your body is going thru withdrawal and new things are occurring. Have her go to a respiratory Therapist Dr.

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It take quite a while to acquire all the repulsive side effects of tobacco out of your tissues and system.

Emphysema is the enlargement of the atmosphere pockets in your lungs. Until slowly you go and get no oxygen into your blood stream.

My Father smoked 68 years and died a horrible death of Emphysema. He be on oxygen for the last 6 or 8 years. He died contained by a nursing home not knowing where he be, or who he was powerless to feed himself and surrounded by diapers. I hope this sounds like as doomed to failure a death as it be.

He and my mother were married 61 years and gratefulness to all that smoking subsequent to her she died of congestive heart failure. Her heart so enlarged it lately wouldn't work any more. Both on oxygen.

Gradually your brain and all the small capillary stop getting oxygen and just won't work any more.

Let's read aloud it takes one month for every year of smoking to go and get rid of the garbage surrounded by a persons system. It is still far better than the alternative.

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It sounds similar to allergy's

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no it sounds like bronchitis...

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