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health advisory Diet Diet 2007-11-11 21:06:11

I recently quit smoking....its going on about 6 or 7 weeks now.

During my quitting venture I have heard alot of different things. Like I heard the first week is the hardest and that after that first week all the nicotine is out f your system, but for me it was hard the first week, 2nd week easy, 3rd started to get harder, now not so much though.

The weirdest thing is though is that I thought I would feel better, be able to breathe better, just not feel so tired. I sometimes now have a harder time breathing than when I smoked!!

Although I don't think I will, I think to myself I might as well have kept smoking cuz I don't really feel any better.......

Answer:

It can take up to a full year to recover.

There you go for more info : http://index-go.com/health_fitness_medic...

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Takes your body time to readjust to being poisoned.

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Try exercising a little. Don't go out and try to run a marathon, but maybe just go out for a few walks during the week or something. I stopped smoking about 3 yrs ago, and just recently started exercising. I wished I had started doing that earlier.

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Quitting smoking SUCKS!!! Believe me, I went cold turkey about fifteen years ago and for the first six months I was the most irritable b@$tard on the planet. And that bit about being able to breathe better isn't true until you do aerobic exercise on a regular basis for a few months and cough out all that junk that has accumulated in your lungs. If you want to feel better, try eating a more balanced diet, taking vitamins, and getting more exercise. You'll probably feel worse for the first few weeks, but it WILL get better if you stick with it. Good luck, and to quote my least-favorite former President "Ah feel yer pain!"

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It is a gradual thing. There are many different things you are dealing with including nicotine, over 100+ added chemicals, tar and soot that built up in your lungs. One week after you quit, you were much healthier than when you were smoking.