Yeah I smoked for 18 years. My 18th year in I started to develop emphysema or early signs of emphysema.
Emphysema is when you're just sitting and you just start coughing up phlegm for no reason at all and the more you smoke, makes those symptoms get worse and worse and worse. I was coughing Non-Stop for 6 months straight.
I find smoking very enjoyable, I love the flavor, but I'm sure at some point I'm going to develop COPD and have other breathing issues as I get older.
Coughing up phlegm, the early signs of emphysema, pretty much stopped not long after I quit smoking. I quit when I was 37 years old. They say the sooner you quit the healthier it is for you, but at the same time you can't do vape, and I hear vape is just as bad if not worse than smoking. People say well, vape is just water vapor. That water vapor is going into your lungs, our lungs were not meant to inhale cigarette smoke and water vapor.
