I have stopped to smoke: Why I am still cough?

At the end I have stopped to smoke six weeks ago. But I am cough a lot, above all the morning when I raise myself. I have not never coughed like this, when I was to smoke. What provokes this? Answer from Edward C. Rosenow III, M.D.

Many persons think that the cough more when to stop than to smoke. But this is a temporary problem. Your bronchi are covered with million microscopic hairs (eyelashes). Normally, such annoying substances hairs to sweep and germs of respiratory ways. But the tobacco smoke paralyzes the eyelashes temporary. When it is stopped to smoke, the eyelashes begin to regenerate themselves and to repair if same, than it is translate in cough. Cough can last a pair of weeks or months - till when the eyelashes totally are recovered. In order to alleviate the cough, tried sorseggiando water or to suck candies against the cough. The doctor consults if the cough persists from more than eight weeks or if the cough door in first slowly of the blood sputum or disturbs the sleep.