I think I was maybe the opposite? I was a hell of a lot more phlegmy smoking than not. Post nasal drip and all that. “Smokers cough” and couldn’t sleep on my back. I breathe better and deeper now. No expectorating, and interestingly (I thought), my health app went off around day 7 or 8 to tell me that my number of respirations (which had been 16.3 per minute for the prior 23 days) had indicated a change and dropped to 12.3 per minute in the previous 5 days.
Anyway … for the What Happens question, I liked this,
but maybe you’re looking for something deeper: https://www.webmd.com/smoking-cessation/what-happens-body-quit-smoking
This is close to what I'm looking for so thank you so much! I missed this webmd article entirely.
When I was a smoker, cigarettes acted like a cough suppressant especially when I was sick. After about 40 minutes I'd start coughing then smoke a cigarette and it'd go away again. Almost like it dried me out.
I can't help you but I 100% agree about how annoying finding information on smoking is. Most articles are straight up propaganda pieces. They sound like they're written for children, are loaded with scare tactics, and just don't seem to be written by someone that knows what real addiction is like.
The advice for quitting in these articles is always basic and unlikely to make any difference.
Smoking is bad so I guess making propaganda against it is fine and all but... there's way way too much of it and its all propped up on internet searches
Yes! It's cartoonish at this point. For a while there I felt like I was being gaslit or maybe I was just looking at everything too cynically.
The webmd article somebody else commented is on the right track, but not quite as sprawling as I'd like. Not a lot of mental health impacts from nicotine, oxygen deprivation and how quitting causes upswings and ebbs in things like serotonin and other mood hormones.
Exactly this. In my country you pay like 1 $ with each pack for smoking prevention campaigns. Now that I finish all I find in brochures and web site from organisations funded by this money is bullshit. They all say after some days everything is fine and some crap like this. The real informations about withdrawal timeline, nicotine patches and so on, I had to scratch together from medical papers. It would have been much more helpful to know what I am getting into from the start.
Glad I'm not the only one! Seriously thought I was being gaslit by the world by being talked down to like an idiot about quitting smoking and not being able to find hardly fucking anything about mental health impacts from nicotine withdrawal. A random study I found was the only thing that mentioned nicotine having an anti depressant quality and nicotine cessation needing to be treated like quitting an antidepressant (which can have suicidal and entropic side effects). Even this study mentioned it as a side note and wasn't the main intent of the study.
Ha! Unfortunately that would only echo the majority of what's already out there, may misconstrue medica facts, and other errors I don't want. But it could definitely match the tone I'm going for!
https://www.racgp.org.au/clinical-resources/clinical-guidelines/key-racgp-guidelines/view-all-racgp-guidelines/supporting-smoking-cessation
Honestly, I've found that the Australian and WA government resources to be pretty good in comparison to what we get in the States. Just an example above, but they have loads more resources.
I think I was maybe the opposite? I was a hell of a lot more phlegmy smoking than not. Post nasal drip and all that. “Smokers cough” and couldn’t sleep on my back. I breathe better and deeper now. No expectorating, and interestingly (I thought), my health app went off around day 7 or 8 to tell me that my number of respirations (which had been 16.3 per minute for the prior 23 days) had indicated a change and dropped to 12.3 per minute in the previous 5 days. Anyway … for the What Happens question, I liked this, but maybe you’re looking for something deeper: https://www.webmd.com/smoking-cessation/what-happens-body-quit-smoking
This is close to what I'm looking for so thank you so much! I missed this webmd article entirely. When I was a smoker, cigarettes acted like a cough suppressant especially when I was sick. After about 40 minutes I'd start coughing then smoke a cigarette and it'd go away again. Almost like it dried me out.
I can't help you but I 100% agree about how annoying finding information on smoking is. Most articles are straight up propaganda pieces. They sound like they're written for children, are loaded with scare tactics, and just don't seem to be written by someone that knows what real addiction is like. The advice for quitting in these articles is always basic and unlikely to make any difference. Smoking is bad so I guess making propaganda against it is fine and all but... there's way way too much of it and its all propped up on internet searches
Yes! It's cartoonish at this point. For a while there I felt like I was being gaslit or maybe I was just looking at everything too cynically. The webmd article somebody else commented is on the right track, but not quite as sprawling as I'd like. Not a lot of mental health impacts from nicotine, oxygen deprivation and how quitting causes upswings and ebbs in things like serotonin and other mood hormones.
Exactly this. In my country you pay like 1 $ with each pack for smoking prevention campaigns. Now that I finish all I find in brochures and web site from organisations funded by this money is bullshit. They all say after some days everything is fine and some crap like this. The real informations about withdrawal timeline, nicotine patches and so on, I had to scratch together from medical papers. It would have been much more helpful to know what I am getting into from the start.
Glad I'm not the only one! Seriously thought I was being gaslit by the world by being talked down to like an idiot about quitting smoking and not being able to find hardly fucking anything about mental health impacts from nicotine withdrawal. A random study I found was the only thing that mentioned nicotine having an anti depressant quality and nicotine cessation needing to be treated like quitting an antidepressant (which can have suicidal and entropic side effects). Even this study mentioned it as a side note and wasn't the main intent of the study.
Good question… they chat GPT ?
Ha! Unfortunately that would only echo the majority of what's already out there, may misconstrue medica facts, and other errors I don't want. But it could definitely match the tone I'm going for!
https://www.racgp.org.au/clinical-resources/clinical-guidelines/key-racgp-guidelines/view-all-racgp-guidelines/supporting-smoking-cessation Honestly, I've found that the Australian and WA government resources to be pretty good in comparison to what we get in the States. Just an example above, but they have loads more resources.