🍃 smokers - shortness of breath during t breaks

not too sure what group this goes in because i haven’t posted on this app in months …

i started smoking 🍃 this summer. i have mostly stuck to cartridges, but occasionally flower too. i noticed that when i’m consistently smoking, my breathing is okay, but when i stop for a few days, it is so incredibly hard to breathe (similar to a few weeks after i had covid and ended up in the hospital). i saw a doctor (before i connected it to smoking) and they told me it was anxiety 😐 they told me it wasn’t my asthma, but ive tried my inhaler anyway. it doesn’t help

i know the solution to this is probably to stop smoking entirely !!!! i am just wondering if anyone else has experienced something like this, if it improved, and why it’s happening (like what’s the biology… have gotten x-rays and all. nothing really comes up & the internet didn’t provide any answers)

AGAIN, i know the best solution is probably to stop, so please don’t comment that 🙃