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I smoke (yeah yeah, sorry) and have a smokers cough and I feel so terrible going out
MelanieFrontage · 15/03/2020 00:28
I want to put a sign around my neck stating that I’m not coughing through a cold or a flu.
To be honest no one has stared at me when I have coughed but it is making me less inclined to go out.
Does anyone else have a non cold flu cough that is making them twitchy about going out?
ShreksAuntie · 15/03/2020 00:31
I hear you. Just got off a plane. Trying to not cough for five hours was very difficult (I have asthma)
Daffodil101 · 15/03/2020 00:42
As a smoker, your lung capacity will be reduced, which makes you more vulnerable. This doesn’t get listed as a ‘medical condition’ because it isn’t, but you should know so that you can take extra care.
GreenTulips · 15/03/2020 00:46
DD has a coughing fit at work on the tills.
Manager swept her outside and got someone to take over quite sharpish!! Didn’t want to put customers off.
AutumnRose1 · 15/03/2020 00:47
I have asthma
I did two little coughs on the bus today but luckily no one was fussed.
StuckBetweenDarknessAndLight · 15/03/2020 00:54
Yeah, I'm a smoker too and have had a bad cold recently that has gone to my chest. I'm very aware that CV goes to the lungs and trying to cut down if not quit.
janeskettle · 15/03/2020 02:48
I don't smoke, but I have a chronic cough, because I have a lung disease.
An auto-immune lung disease.
Trying not to cough just adds another layer of stress to the stress of being high-risk but having to go to work on public transport anyway.
I feel your pain.
Please try to cut down now for your own health
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