Okay, this is NOT a post in favor of starting smoking again nor to discourage anyone from the horrendously difficult task of quitting smoking!!!!!!

Years ago (my husband quit smoking on his 50th birthday) his family doctor, an osteopath, told him that those who handled tobacco, the raw leaves, meaning tobacconists, those who bought and sold the tobacco from the fields and handled it were found to be HEALTHIER than those in the same area who did NOT work with and handle the dried tobacco leaves. In addition, it has been found that smoking has some protective value for Ulcerative Colitis but a very negative effect on Crohn's disease (two Inflammatory Bowel Diseases).

HOWEVER, totally disregarding the tars, etc. that burning any material produces, COMMON SENSE tells you that sucking in, inhaling, HOT air can NOT be advantageous to DELICATE lung and nasal tissue. An old family friend used to say if God had wanted humans to smoke he'd have put a chimney in their head.

Kudos to those have managed to quit smoking. REMEMBER how difficult it was to do so. You DO NOT WANT to have to go thru that again! It has been established by former drug addicts that quitting smoking was much harder than breaking the illegal drug habit.

I've been told, and my husband certainly experienced it, that you will cough more, harder and longer in the morning for as much as the first year after quitting smoking than you ever did whilst smoking. I don't think he ever asked why or if he did he never told me why. My husband's doctor was a former smoker of many years so he was pretty wise to the use of and the quitting of smoking and the effect of both.


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I certainly got sicker when I quit smoking. I developed allergies (which I'd never had before), colds, pneumonia...you name it. But then it got better!  Just stick with it. I was, incidentally, diagnosed with sleep apnea after I quit smoking, but I do not think in any way that the two are related. I've ALWAYS been tire (I'm talking since I was 13 years old here)