Only wish I could join you. As I used to tell friends when I was smoking, people will be pointing at me on the stretcher as they carry me out to the ambulance . My Grandfather lived to the ripe age of 80 and started smoking at the age of around ten or 11. If a fellow gets up to the eighty mark he has no complaints. C.B. Peters I have a theory about why people report increased sickness after quitting smoking.
Tobacco smoke inhibits the action of the lung cleaning cilia.
When the lungs start to repair themselves, the cilia rebound and work furiously to clean the lungs. This causes extended bouts of coughing and excess phlegm. In the same period, I have had only one cold. We have both been staying home with the kids during her maternity leave. Its hard to say why and when people will get sick.