Ok he is right your cough will get worse and worse if you don't reduce how much you smoke. If you smoke a lot, even reducing a little you will still get worse lungs for it. There are things you can do about it though no need to go quit! One thing, maybe it's not for you, but if you do some exercise every week then you will re-claim some of your tar covered lung capacity- but you have to be ready to get out of breathe and cough up.
Here is the best way to have weed forever though and have perfect lungs! Vaporize!! It is so brilliant I swear. There is heaps and heaps of different ways to do it but the basic concept is to heat the weed up to the point of near combustion- but not let it actually burn. The chemicals are vaporized and make a light mist which you breathe in just like normal but practically no tar! I used this one vaporizer for more than half a year which had a clear hooka like hose on it and after all that time it only gained a golden tint to it- if it was a bong it would of turned black within a week and then after a few months just closed in entirely with tar. Then I scraped out the golden goo and it tastes like hash! I actually wiped some on a tiny bit of ciggy paper and put it in a bong and it tasted good.
It sounds too good to be true but it's for real. You get a full hit just like normal- in fact you can get MORE out of your weed from using a vaporizer. When you burn a joint or a bong hit then it gets fried before all of the chemicals get out and in to your lungs. When you vape you can keep going and going and going until you decide you are done with that piece- then you can even take that dried out bud and pack it in to a bong to toke it AGAIN and really finish it off. I swear i have had a full bong hit equivalent from a vape and then smoked it in a bong and got an extra 25% or so stone on top. It actually really helped me stretch my weed out through really broke times without having to get any less high.
Oh yeah and the taste! You won't realise how disgusting a bong tastes (even of the most delicious weed) until you done only vape for a few weeks and then have a bong again. Vape tastes like it smells, so you'll realise a lot of the bong taste is yuck tar. In a way it will ruin bongs for you
So there you go, you don't have to do it all the time but the more you vape the cleaner your lungs will be. If you really can't find a design that suits you (some toke like a hooka, some are hand held like alcohol breath tester, some fill a bag with a valve so it stays full until you toke it...some electric and some use lighter power) to use full-time, then keep one as a "detox" so instead of going off weed entirely for a month or two to clean your lungs, just do vape only for a time period and then go back.