Smoker's Cough

Here is another good reason to Quit smoking. During one of my morning cigarette smoking with coffee at the office smoking room (smokers usually meet at my office every morning), we smoke and get to have some chit-chat on current, work issues and whatever there is to talk about, mostly the humorous side. ( I limit myself to 1 cigarette stick every morning, I still like hanging out with this guys)

I once thought that some coughing on the smoking room was cause by their laughing and smoking simultaneously until one of my office mate say the term Smoker's Cough. well, everybody in the smoking room ignore him, and the chit-chat topic was changed. Laughing and occasional coughs continues (ha ha ha! cough, cough! - how's the sound of that!). Thank god I'm not experiencing it yet although I've been smoking for years now.

From what I've read majority of cigarette smoker's experience this smoker's cough, newbie cigarette smokers will not have this but in years of smoking eventually they also will experience it, if thery are unable to Quit. According to wikipedia (nice to have them),

Smoker's cough is a kind of cough seen especially in smokers. Any irritant present in the respiratory system may trigger cough, however, smoker's cough develops as a consequence of phlegm buildup in the trachea.



Cause

In the trachea, the walls are lined with cilia, small hairs that protrude from the tracheal epithelium. They move in a synchronous wavelike motion, thereby moving foreign bodies trapped in phlegm upwards towards the oropharynx, so they may be swallowed. Cigarette smoke destroys or paralyzes these cilia, so the only way that phlegm can be removed is via coughing.



You should also look at smoker’s cough as a means of suggesting that your body is less and less capable of handling the poisons you’re inhaling. It may be challenging to quit, but smoker’s cough indicates that your respiratory system is damaged. Other types of coughing, especially those that don’t resolve within an hour of waking, and if you cough up blood or yellow to green phlegm, may suggest presence of bacterial illness.

Mostly though, if you have smoker’s cough, you likely know you’ve been smoking for a long time. Possibly it’s time to consider that your body is sending you a clear message when you must cough and cough in the morning before you can start accomplishing any of your daily tasks. It’s not only unpleasant, but a signal that cigarette and tobacco smoking are simply not good for the body.

Basically, our body is giving signals of getting much toxic it can take and that something should be done to address this signal call or further or worst body failure will happen. Although there are some so-called cure for smoker's cough, it will not totally cure this. Of course you know how to cure this - Stop Smoking. If your a new cigarette smoker and don't want this to happen to you - Quit Smoking now!