i have smoked weed (until recently, due to life crisis, i dont even want coffee right now) for almost 20 years, since i was 17. i did develop a cough over time that i didnt have before. i know its because of smoking. it took maybe 5 years to become noticeable to me. slowly, slowly getting worse. i always thought i wouldnt want to smoke anymore if this happened. but by then there was no stopping, i didnt want to stop. now i wonder how permanent my hiatus will be. its been a month. my cough is still there, i know my lungs are still cleaning out. so id say, its not too harmful, but does eventually have its effects in one way or another, and for me it is embarrassing when i start to laugh and it comes out as a smokerâs laugh, it happens only occasionally, but always embarrassing. so im glad that ive been forced into stopping. i do plan to at least do it occasionally, as its great for pain relief when nothing else works, etc, things like that, and recreationally it can be nice. but for now im enjoying the opportunity to possibly make my cough go back to fully normal, at least.
interesting note- once i saw a particular dentist, after id been smoking 17 years, and she had me do this breath test thing before sheâd work on me. it was to measure my oxygen intake or something. i breathed in, and she in astonishment said, âwow you hit 100%! ive seen lots of 98âs and 99âs, but never 100!â i smiled to myself, thinking, hahaha ive been smoking SO long! nevertheless, i hate my occasional smoker cough.
