This is unlikely. If you had quit smoking 15 years ago, your lungs are probably healthy. Emphysema cannot lay dormant for that many years and suddenly get worse. You will show the symptoms if you have emphysema.
This is unlikely. If you had quit smoking 15 years ago, your lungs are probably healthy. Emphysema cannot lay dormant for that many years and suddenly get worse. You will show the symptoms if you have emphysema.
One response to “Can emphysema lay dormant after you’ve quit smoking for 15 years and then get worse?”
i’m trying 2 stop smoking cigarettes… but it’s hard to do when peeps around you are smoking… i can quit when im just stayin’ my house .. but it’s impossible to be at home all the time