This applies to vaper’s as well.

A deep breath held for as little as 3-4 seconds and a strong cough from the stomach will likely add 10-30 years to your life.

I’ll explain with the usual sales bullet points of this and that is why but at the end there is no monthly subscription. No health saving fabs (apart from more about the above one), no sign up to do, no book to buy. In fact zero need to do other than know the above.

This is not a scam, it’s peer to peer advice and an honest easy fix. I am not promoting some route to immortality and charging you your life (unlike some). But just helping add a few years to the one you have.

If you smoke/vape, do that every morning and you will live longer.

Here’s why:

Mucous and COPD. Y’all will not what Mucous is and if you’ve been puffing for long enough you’ll be aware of that first drag and morning cough to ‘clear the airways’ and I apostrophe it as it’s ALMOST there.

It’s your lung filling with mucous actually.

And COPD is what your dying of unless you pick a fight with a fast moving vehicle or your wives sister’s husband. It stands for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease.

What the F*** is pulmonary? To do with the lungs. So clearing the airways IS almost right. If you said airways AND more importantly the LUNGS you’d hit the nail on the head.

To go ‘deeper’ and into the lungs bit.

First off there is lines of defense to your lungs and actually your stomach as well. Saliva is very acidic for a reason. Your boogers are pollution that your nasal hairs caught in mucous and air flow then made less like liquid or into boogers.

When you do a throat cough you bring up mucous caught by your throat hairs! YES you have internal body hair inside your airwaves and these wee soldiers work their fecking arses off for a smoker. Already overwhelmed by atmospheric pollution, with your ‘helping hand’ with each draw, they are getting a WORK OUT.

So Earths natural and man made pollutants (stay away from volcanos as well, in saying that if a non-smokers is close one when a cyanide gas bubble comes out your fucked wither way!) plus your smoking does literally break down this line of defense.

These internal throat hairs die. Smokers who quite after consistent smoking for years have to go through a clearing the throat phase as these hairs grow back and get to work actually clearing your airwaves from the permanent damage smoking has caused. When I went through it, I had 3 weeks of brown phlegm coming up as they repaired themselves.

So at last to the lungs. Guess what COPD is – wee man syndrome for small lungs. Every drag you take reduces your lungs capacity to take in and process air.

To the coughing – when you cough from the throat, try it. Your clearing your airways/throat. Sneezing/blowing your nose, nasal pasages.

If you take that deep breath and hold it for even just a few seconds and then really exhale from the stomach muscles you get a more ‘honest’.

It shifts mucous from the lungs which is better off NOT THERE. It got there because of your dead internal throat hairs and you have a higher lung capacity the less you have. People with advanced COPD can elect to hang upside down, breath through an oxygen mask and do a series of controlled coughs to try shift mucous from the lungs.

That is the smokers/vapers end of life ‘joy’. So thinking of preventative measures now is a good idea. Perhaps pass peacefully than painfully.

You can go further than a morning cough from the stomach. Steam breathing, long walks, diet changes (each to their own), taking shorter drags from ciggies and of course less ciggies and/or quitting.

Quick note on vapers. Well done on getting rid of the smoke, flunk for replacing the market with chemicals than can easily do yet MORE damage – plus making nicotine more accessible in higher doses… not sure that’s the right ‘quick fix’ to being a smoker myself. Certainly less tar but the other side of the equals sign? Your inhaling more drug now.

In closing an aside to this morning deep breath stomach cough ritual (as you have your first ‘hit’) is that it’s a stark reminder to oneself.

I am not a one for the guilt tripping advice. But if you even remind yourself what the cost is – it does make you face it more honestly. For me anyway.

You can confront a problem and handle it or pretend it is not there.

I’d call the later, whistling past the graveyard.