I feel heavy breathing and weakness while climbing stairs. Can this be due to smoking?

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Yes, these problems can be due to smoking. It may lead to heart problems which causes breathing problems on exertion. Tell me if you have chest pain on walking, any palpitations, any family history of heart disease, or any history of diabetes, hypertension, etc.? Do you take any medications? Also, tell me about your age, weight, number of cigarettes you consume in a day and since how long? I would be able to help you better with these answers.

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You do not have to try, you have to quit in any case. Do you know if your both parents are diabetic, you are at risk of getting diabetes. And that is itself is a risk factor for coronary artery disease and smoking would aggravate it. You may try Nicotex 4 mg chewing gum. They are very helpful in reducing cravings. Let us come to your breathing problem and weakness. Most of the chronic smokers have cough. You also might be having it. I advise you to get a chest x-ray and ECG (electrocardiography), to find any evidence of any smoking related predominant effects. Breathing difficulties in smokers are almost always due to heart or lungs related problems. At this age, in smokers, mostly chest x-ray and ECG are normal, but we should not take a chance. Weakness at your age can be due to anemia. However, you seem to be healthy as far as your weight is concerned. But I would suggest you to get the following routine investigations done as a baseline and also since you have a family history of diabetes. Do Hemogram, Serum creatinine, Liver function test, X-ray chest and ECG, Fasting blood sugar and lipid profile, and TSH (thyroid-stimulating hormone). Get yourself tested to see, if you have any abnormal reports, we would treat them. Until then you can take tablet Supradyn once a day. It is a very good multivitamin support. Let me know in case you ever had any blood in sputum or you have excessive cough with sputum production especially in the morning. Also, if you have any weight loss. I hope to hear from you, that you have quit smoking from the moment you read this message. Also, remember there is nothing like I will slowly quit. Take Nicotex for cravings.

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If you got them two months back. It is not a problem. Do not get them now. Stop smoking and start jogging. Your lungs and arteries of heart will get better. If you have cough and expectoration you can take a combination of Levocetirizine and Ambroxol once a day for 10 days. It will relieve your cough, would melt any deposited cough and also would relive your breathlessness if it was all due to smoking. So, take this combination and Supradyn for 10 days. And review with me after 10 days.

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If you do night shifts, coffee and cigarette consumption is more there. Avoid them. Take Supradyn for 10 days , it is good medicine for weakness too. Yes, you can take that combination whenever you go to sleep. Also, this is important that you sleep eight hours a day without any disturbance. And in case you snore a lot let me know, because snoring can be a reason of lack of sleep inspite of sleeping properly, leading to weakness and sleepiness in your office hours. Treating snoring becomes the priority then.