Smokers and covid Question

I am a long time smoker and I hardly ever get sick from a cold or flu.

As a matter of fact the last two times I got really sick Was during the 2 years I quit smoking.

So my question is for other smokers.

Has any of you caught covid and if you did did you get sick ?

I am unvaxed and never wear a mask and have not had so much as a sniffle this whole pandemic but I tested positive for antibodies.

a reply to: sciencelol

I haven't had a cold or flu in at least 20 years.

I'm a heavy smoker.

I think early on there were studies showing smokers rarely got the Vid.

a reply to: sciencelol
I tested positive on 7/26. One week of a fever and the next week was some coughing and some strange breathing issues. Felt kinda like reduced lung capacity but I could force myself to take a deep breath and the lung capacity was still there. That lasted a few days and I was fine. My wife ended up in the hospital for 3 days with pneumonia and she's the non smoker.

originally posted by: MykeNukem
a reply to: sciencelol

I haven't had a cold or flu in at least 20 years.

I'm a heavy smoker.

I think early on there were studies showing smokers rarely got the Vid.

I saw some of those stories . My wife and I were gonna try and quit because of covid at first then we saw some of those stories and said well lets just keep smoking.

We probably wouldnt have been able to quit anyway lol

a reply to: sciencelol

Smoker

Unvaxxed

Feeling groovy

originally posted by: sciencelol

originally posted by: MykeNukem
a reply to: sciencelol

I haven't had a cold or flu in at least 20 years.

I'm a heavy smoker.

I think early on there were studies showing smokers rarely got the Vid.

I saw some of those stories . My wife and I were gonna try and quit because of covid at first then we saw some of those stories and said well lets just keep smoking.

We probably wouldnt have been able to quit anyway lol

Probably a good call.

My wife quit the second she found ot she was pregnant, hasn't smoked since, that was 1997 lol, me not so much, been smoking since I was a kid at 12 basically.

Stupidest Fn habit ever, but maybe for once it's giving us some benefits?

*Crosses fingers.

originally posted by: MykeNukem

originally posted by: sciencelol

originally posted by: MykeNukem
a reply to: sciencelol

I haven't had a cold or flu in at least 20 years.

I'm a heavy smoker.

I think early on there were studies showing smokers rarely got the Vid.

I saw some of those stories . My wife and I were gonna try and quit because of covid at first then we saw some of those stories and said well lets just keep smoking.

We probably wouldnt have been able to quit anyway lol

Probably a good call.

My wife quit the second she found ot she was pregnant, hasn't smoked since, that was 1997 lol, me not so much, been smoking since I was a kid at 12 basically.

Stupidest Fn habit ever, but maybe for once it's giving us some benefits?

*Crosses fingers.

Right . I am so addicted lol . We have discussed quitting countless times .

But like I said I think I will just ride it out

originally posted by: sciencelol

originally posted by: MykeNukem

originally posted by: sciencelol

originally posted by: MykeNukem
a reply to: sciencelol

I haven't had a cold or flu in at least 20 years.

I'm a heavy smoker.

I think early on there were studies showing smokers rarely got the Vid.

I saw some of those stories . My wife and I were gonna try and quit because of covid at first then we saw some of those stories and said well lets just keep smoking.

We probably wouldnt have been able to quit anyway lol

Probably a good call.

My wife quit the second she found ot she was pregnant, hasn't smoked since, that was 1997 lol, me not so much, been smoking since I was a kid at 12 basically.

Stupidest Fn habit ever, but maybe for once it's giving us some benefits?

*Crosses fingers.

Right . I am so addicted lol . We have discussed quitting countless times .

But like I said I think I will just ride it out

Same.

ATS doesn't help if you're trying to quit, lmao.

a reply to: sciencelol

I remember early on, reports from China and Italy saying that smokers seemed to not end up in the hospital very much. I understand smoking is really big in China these days.

But I haven't heard the news in the US mention that trend here. And you KNOW they tell us all the useful facts out there! LoL

originally posted by: new_here
a reply to: sciencelol

I remember early on, reports from China and Italy saying that smokers seemed to not end up in the hospital very much. I understand smoking is really big in China these days.

But I haven't heard the news in the US mention that trend here. And you KNOW they tell us all the useful facts out there! LoL

Yep and I remember stories of them having soldiers smoke in Nam to avoid illnesses

a reply to: sciencelol

Yeah smoker here too but I thought I had it back in March of 2020, antibody test in April 2020 was negative.

When I went to the doctor and she listened to my lungs, she said I had the best sounding lungs of any long time smoker she has ever heard.

I attributed that to walking 10-12 miles a day as a mailman and she agreed that was probably it.

a reply to: sciencelol

Honestly, if you are a smoker, heavy, your lungs are already coated, so if you think about it,covid has a hard time getting through the mucus and flem, so it reasons to stand that you might be able to cough it out before you get infected.Crude,but might have truth to it...I dunno....Heavy smoker here, so I like the sound of it..lol

When you smoke cigarettes, it creates nitric oxide, which actually disrupts most viruses. Our body creates it to kill microbes and viruses. They are not going to tell us that smoking tobacco kills microbes because they have been brainwashing people for forty years that it causes all kinds of cancers. When in fact, nicotine can cause some cancers, but if you smoke less than say fifteen cigarettes a day it doesn't hurt you that much as they say. The issue isn't that their lies about it causing cancer were BS, it is that they never investigated all the other chemistries that are probably causing the problem because it is well accepted now that it is all about cigarettes. Over half of the people I knew that got lung cancer never smoked a day in their life and tried to stay away from people smoking cigarettes. Blaming one culprit for everything lets the real culprit keep hurting us.

a reply to: sciencelol

My husband and I both smoke and got Covid back in Jan of this year, For both of us, it was a nothing burger, We had headache and tiredness for a couple days. Over, and we're both mosty fine. I still can not smell much. Then there's this , we are both in our70's He had heart attack 10 years ago, and I had a stroke about 8 years ago.

originally posted by: RazorV66
a reply to: sciencelol

Yeah smoker here too but I thought I had it back in March of 2020, antibody test in April 2020 was negative.

When I went to the doctor and she listened to my lungs, she said I had had the best sounding lungs of any long time smoker she has ever heard.

I attributed that to walking 10-12 miles a day as a mailman and she agreed that was probably it.

I had a stress test a couple years ago and they had me running on that damm treadmill tell my legs were gonna fall off.

She said I still had a 97% oxygen level after that.

I have been smoking for 35 years and I can still hold my breath for quite a long time

originally posted by: Darkblade71
a reply to: sciencelol

Honestly, if you are a smoker, heavy, your lungs are already coated, so if you think about it,covid has a hard time getting through the mucus and flem, so it reasons to stand that you might be able to cough it out before you get infected.Crude,but might have truth to it...I dunno....Heavy smoker here, so I like the sound of it..lol

Lol, I'm with ya all the way.

Ever hear of Gunnite? Anyway, we joke at work that we have an impenetrable coating of Gunnite on our lungs, that's why we're so healthy.

a reply to: Darkblade71

It seems to be a trend, during the Spanish flu people started smoking because smokers didn't seem to be getting it.

a reply to: sciencelol
Got sick for awhile, nothing to bad.. felt like a giant bear hug restricting breathing but just got up and did some intense workout routines to get my breathing and hearth rate up.. was fine less then 3 days later.. and I am immuno compromised.

So screw the vax. There's a reason they been pushing hate on smokers before all this happened ya know.

You should look into project trinity..After they started doing nuclear bomb tests. they started tests on mice and smoking. Because everyone in the nearby town started getting cancer except those that smoked.

Mice they forced to swollow/inhale nuclear radiation particles(dust). The non 2nd hand smoking mice all got cancer, those that were exposed to second hand (via filling the cages) literally crapped out the radiation particles and none of them got cancer.

So yeah, there are some benefits to smoking. That mucus lining protects you from all sorts of things including radioactive dust from all those nuclear tests.

a reply to: sciencelol

It might be the nicotine.
clinicaltrials.gov...

originally posted by: anonentity
a reply to: Darkblade71

It seems to be a trend, during the Spanish flu people started smoking because smokers didn't seem to be getting it.

I learn something new every day.