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A member asked:
I left smoking cigarettes 15 days back after 4.5 months.i have coughed a lot and i feel a bit of chest pain sometimes.what could be the reason behind?
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Goblet cells: The irritation from the smoke make the lungs produce more mucous secreting goblet cells. While smoking these goblet cells are more or less "sedated" by the products in smoke but once one stops smoking they come "alive"..Eventually they go back to more or less normal as long as other irritants to the lungs are avoided.
Answered 3/26/2013
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