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Did you smoke prior to developing COPD?
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Michael_B
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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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JazzyC
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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
Alison62
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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
Alan1962
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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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JosephineO
Community managerGood advisor
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 :)