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Did you smoke prior to developing COPD?

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JosephineO

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08/07/2019 at 11:43

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Hello,

It is true that it isn't just smokers who can contract COPD. However, did you smoke before developing COPD? Did you stop smoking immediately or do you still smoke?

Please share :)

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Michael_B

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08/01/2020 at 15:27

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@JazzyC Hello JazzyC,

That's sounds rough. How do you handle going out? I know restaurants and bars are non-smoking now, but there's usually a clutch of smokers huddled around the door.

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Did you smoke prior to developing COPD? https://www.carenity.co.uk/forum/copd/living-with-copd/did-you-smoke-prior-to-contracting-copd-2886 2020-01-08 15:27:43

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08/01/2020 at 17:20

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I don't go out to restaurants much as I have various dietary issues but it is difficult at times. It isn't just cigarettes I am finding, some vapes, I hope that's the right word, can either make me feel sick or cause my chest to tighten. Luckily I don't have much sense of smell so that helps as it is only if I can actually smell the smoke or vape that I am too bad. I hope that makes sense it is difficult to explain what it is like

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Janet Collins

Did you smoke prior to developing COPD? https://www.carenity.co.uk/forum/copd/living-with-copd/did-you-smoke-prior-to-contracting-copd-2886 2020-01-08 17:20:10

Alison62

06/04/2020 at 14:01

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I smoked for years, even after being diagnosed with COPD and Bronciectasis then I got double pneumonia which nearly killed me. As I lay in intensive care I made a promise that if I made it I would stop smoking. I did and haven’t touched one in 3 years

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Alison62

Did you smoke prior to developing COPD? https://www.carenity.co.uk/forum/copd/living-with-copd/did-you-smoke-prior-to-contracting-copd-2886 2020-04-06 14:01:59

Alan1962

01/05/2020 at 10:42

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I smoked too but like yourself Alison62 I got really ill and then was diagnosed with COPD fibrosis in my lungs and told I wouldn't make make 50 if I kept smoking so quite that day and off them 20 years now i now have bronciectasis and I do tighten up when someone walks past and blows out their smoke and I hate being around anyone who is using those vapping cigarettes

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Alan Hampton

Did you smoke prior to developing COPD? https://www.carenity.co.uk/forum/copd/living-with-copd/did-you-smoke-prior-to-contracting-copd-2886 2020-05-01 10:42:42

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