English Español
Help
cancel
Turn on suggestions
Auto-suggest helps you quickly narrow down your search results by suggesting possible matches as you type.
Showing results for 
Show  only  | Search instead for 
Did you mean: 

Share your quitting journey

On Bad Taste and Clearing Your Throat

JonesCarpeDiem
Member
0 5 32
‎09-17-2015 09:22 AM

After we've quit amd when we sleep, there are small hairlike appendages that line our bronchial tubes called cilia that sweep the crap out of our lungs. These are paralyzed when we are still smoking.

For a former smoker that includes the tar that built up in our lungs. It sometimes collects in the back of your throat and then gets on your tongue from the saliva. That's why you taste it.

Normally it goes through your digestive system and if you aren't careful will stick you to the crapper. If you find yourself clearing your throat it is because of this tar.

I cleared my throat past my first year of quitting.

PS: Dpn't get stuck on the seat! 🙂

0 Kudos
5 Comments
About the Author
Hello, My name is Dale. I was quit 18 months before joining this site and had participated on another site during that time. I learned a lot there and brought it with me. I joined this site the first week of August 2008. I didn't pressure myself to quit. HOW I QUIT I didn't count, I didn't deny myself to get started. When I considered quitting (at a friends request to influence his brother to quit), I simply told myself to wait a little longer. No denial, nothing painful. After 4 weeks I was down to 5 cigarettes from a pack a day. The strength came from proving to myself, I didn't need to smoke because I normally would have smoked. Simple yes? I bought the patch. I forgot to put one on on the 4th day. I needed it the next day but the following week I forgot two days in a row I put one in my wallet with a promise to myself that I would slap it on and wait an hour rather than smoke. It rode in my wallet my first year.There's nothing keeping any of you from doing this. It doesn't cost a dime. This is about unlearning something you've done for a long time. The nicotine isn't the hard part. Disconnecting from the psychological pull, the memories and connected emotions is. :-) Time is the healer.