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Sorry you feel crappy but you are normal.
Google "Quitter's flu".
Here's a cut and paste from an article I read at
http://groups.msn.com/AskJoel/general.msnwaction=get_message&mview=0&...
"All recent quitters need to be aware of two things that can happen when
getting cold or flu near the time that they quit smoking. First, a cold may
be more annoying than normal. If anyone gets a cold within a few months of a
quit, it is often a really uncomfortable one. The reason being not only are
you producing excessive mucous from the infection itself, but since your
Cilia are still in the process of cleaning out of the built up mucous that
has been accumulated over the years and decades that never had a chance of
coming out before, the amount of congestion and the symptoms can really make
a person miserable.
Also, with nerve cells that have now regenerated throughout your whole
respiratory tract functioning normally, you can feel pain and irritation
that were dulled when you were a smoker. It may have taken you a little
longer as a smoker to even know when you were getting sick. With impaired
nerve cells you may not have felt earlier symptoms, or if you did you may
not have been able to differentiate what was just an effect of smoking too
much or of actually having some sort of infection. With nerve cells back in
place you are likely not going to be overly tempted to smoke for the concept
of pouring hot irritating smoke on an already irritated throat is generally
not a pleasant thought.

Where you do have to be careful and aware is that when your cold starts to
dissipate, you might get stronger than normal thoughts for cigarettes. For
while you likely cut back on cigarette consumption when you were a smoker
with a cold, when you started to get better you would have to make up for
lost time, or more accurately, for lower than normal nicotine levels since
you had instinctively cut cigarettes down to a bare minimum in those times.
This makes the first time getting well a potentially powerful trigger. Just
be aware of the fact and it will help you to minimize the effect. Then know
that over your lifetime, your colds will probably be less frequent, resolve
quicker and be less severe as long as you always remember to never take
another puff!"

Try some Echinacea. I take those the minute I start to feel slightly sick.
They work wonders.

Terry