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When you quit smoking, after a while the lungs become sensitive, presumably because they dont have a tar coating anymore. Which youre used to. Feels like that.
Yup, I know what you mean. I started on 20/day at university and was on 40/day by my mid-twenties. I stopped completely on my 30th birthday and I've probably smoked less than half a cigarette total in the following 8.5 years. It was interesting the crap that came up from my lungs in the few months after giving up.
Anyway. Back in to the swing of things with running. 10k today (56:30 is a new PB). Not liking the hill round the back of Putney Vale Cemetery but then that's the point isn't it; it should get easier as the weight comes off.
Will do another 10km Wednesday and then a flat 12km run all the way into work on Thursday. Looking forward to the aching legs, and EATING ALL THE THINGS on Thursday lunchtime.
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A certain amount of goo came out.
When you quit smoking, after a while the lungs become sensitive, presumably because they dont have a tar coating anymore. Which youre used to. Feels like that.
The lungs are far less sensitive to the Cold air as you'd think (pretty sure -12C is the around temp at which to start considering keeping an astma suffering child indoors). Plus it was only about -3C.
I think its more Down to sucking so much Cold air so deeply. The dryness of the air probably doesnt help.
As an ex smoker that could once produce lungnuts so thick they'd Bounce. I cant say it worries me ;)