If I quit smoking, how long will it take for my smoker's cough to disappear?

If I quit smoking, how long will it take for my smoker's cough to disappear?

Linda Hyder Ferry (Associate Professor, Preventive Medicine and Family Medicine, Loma Linda University School of Medicine) gives expert video advice on: Why should I quit smoking?; What are the health benefits of quitting smoking?; What are the immediate health benefits of quitting smoking? and more...

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.