How long is this cough going to hang on?

Check with your physician, there maybe an inhaler to help break it up.

I am without insurance at the moment. :/

Try a home remedy, Jasmine Tea made in a big bowl with boiling water. Then put a towel over your head and put your face over the bowl.
Old remedy from when I had asthma as a young kid.

I typically get a phlegm’s cough once a year. A generic cough medicine can usually clear it up.

Medicine or not, it usually lasts three weeks.

is it worse when you lie down? And do you find yourself short of breath?

A lot of ex-smokers develope a cough, for a bit. I think, it’s a good thing. I think it is the lungs trying to get cleared out, and back to normal.

In the medical profession, there’s an expression, “better out, than in.” Cough that stuff up. And get healthier.

From what I understand, it isn’t unusual for it to take several months. You might want to double check that it isn’t some sort of illness, God forbid. Like next time you’re at the doctor make sure he listens to your lungs or maybe even take an X-ray, I don’t know, but I do think you are still in a normal time frame of coughing when quitting smoking. My guess is by Christmas it stops, unless there is something else going on.

Thanks you guys.

@stanleybmanly, no it’s not worse when I lay down. Actually, it just seems to come and go. Seems OK today. I just wonder why it waited 3 months to start acting up.

It started acting up after a lull of no coughing? I’d get it checked probably. Just to be safe.

I don’t have insurance at the moment. Pretty sure it’s just non-smoking related. I guess it’s probably taken this long to get ALL the cilia unstuck and free to do their job again…and they’re doing their job.
I quit smoking for 8 years back in the 80s, and I don’t remember this part. I was just wondering if any former smokers experienced this so far after the event.

The cilia start functioning again after about 8 hours I think. That’s part of why smokers wake up coughing. But, it take months to get all of the junk out of the lungs. Luckily, cilia heal quickly (usually). Their action (kind of a waving action to move the bad stuff out) goes back to normal quickly.

I took biology too @JLeslie.