S.A.N.S*.......................(bonus entry)

*(Sitting Around Not Smoking)

Smoking anesthetizes some of the little hairs (cilia) in your lungs that otherwise serve to mobilize foreign particulate matter out of the lungs and into the bronchial tubes where it can be hacked up.
Those cilia it does not anesthetize in the short term, it destroys in the long term.
This is a bad thing..................

However, all is not lost. After a few weeks the sleeping cilia start to wake up and the lungs start to regenerate the dead ones.

On the face of it (and actually) this is a good thing.....................

Here is how that breaks down in practice:

For how some ever many years you have been smoking the solids suspended in the smoke have been building up in your lungs without any effective way of being expelled.......................it builds up and partially dehydrates into a resinous layer that coats the inner surfaces of the lungs entirely.
.........................and then the little cilia start waking up and regrowing.
So, just when you think you have the worst behind you, you start coughing your fucking head off (far worse than you ever did while smoking) and hacking up crusty bits of accumulated cigarette sewage suspended in a sort of pale green goo.

At least I have something to do while I'm sitting-around-not-smoking.........eh?

19 days 1 hour 29 minutes and 47 seconds.................

Thus endeth the entry....................................