If I quit smoking, how long will it take for my smoker's cough to disappear?
When someone has smoked long enough to irritate and inflame their airways due to cigarette smoke, the cough can have several reasons. One can just be the redness and irritation in the airways. That will improve within just weeks to months of quitting smoking. The length of time that it takes someone with a more severe cough to improve really depends on, are they having anything else in their environment that might be making it worse? So I would encourage someone who is concerned about a smokers cough to say: Is it from asthma? Is it from allergies? It may not just go away because of your cigarette smoking, there may be another cause.