Nicotine and various other chemical in tobacco work as an anti-inflammatory thus suppressing the Asthma. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/p... so you've likely had it before but just kept it suppressed.
So effectively, you've switched from one drug to another...slightly safer drug. >.<; You might want to consider taking up 'nicotine' again, have a chat to your doctor about it. (Don't start smoking. BAD!). You can get nicotine inhalers and various other things that don't put as much strain on your body. (There's some debate whether Nicotine itself is better or worse than the steroids in the asthma drug)
I didnt have it before ...as i said it happened after i quit smoking...reason was..my immune system was down for a while after stopping smoking....the inhalers i use are doing the job so far...dont need nicotine in my sytem anymore...period
What I'm saying is... according to the evidence, you wouldn't have known. There are a number of ex-smokers who believe that they develop asthma due to quitting smoking...this isn't true. http://www.asthma.org.uk/abou... It is more likely than not (I've already cited my source) that the nicotine was suppressing the asthma (there are two other studies that I can find that confirms the results, this is why I said ask the doctor...).
Nicotine and and of itself, is as harmful as caffeine, just as addictive too. That said I completely agree, staying away from Nicotine is a good thing.
Lazy people! trololololol XD I don't have asthma I never have, both my mother and me put it down to being breast fed actually. (That's because I everyone that I know who was breast fed (rather than sole baby food fed) don't have asthma...I'm not sure if it's everyone but everyone who I have met anyway).
That said unlike common opinion it has very little to do with being lazy but it does have a lot to do with the immune system (I think...last time I checked it causes the wind pipe and lungs to be inflamed). I also don't think it has a cure. The reason I say it has little to do with being lazy is because I know a number of marathon runners who have asthma...two rugby players and a numberphile who won a rowing race as part of a team in Oxford.
Sometimes, but not always. Some grow out of it. (Asthma is more common in children than in those aged over 24). Some have it seasonally... and some have it if and when their body thinks about it. Thus defying the medical definition of chronic. (Chronic is defined as "Of long duration. Used of a disease of slow progress and long continuance." which isn't necessarily the case for Asthma, it is sometimes, just not always or even enough to give Asthma the upgrade in the majority of cases).
chronic. (n.d.). The American Heritage® Stedman's Medical Dictionary. Retrieved July 28, 2012, from Dictionary.com website: http://dictionary.reference.c...
However I am aware of the NHLBI guidelines http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/heal... however please note that I haven't said that the disease is cured. That said there isn't actually an actual definitive diagnosis for Asthma http://www.nhs.uk/Conditions/... only indicators of inflammation. Take for instance other diseases that can be diagnosed such as AIDS which does have a direct diagnosis or tell tale signs that it is what it says it is and not just a wheezy cough.
Thus my conclusion is that while some doctors might be calling it a chronic, incurable disease...there isn't actually any proof of this [because there isn't an actual diagnosis aside...
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Sometimes, but not always. Some grow out of it. (Asthma is more common in children than in those aged over 24). Some have it seasonally... and some have it if and when their body thinks about it. Thus defying the medical definition of chronic. (Chronic is defined as "Of long duration. Used of a disease of slow progress and long continuance." which isn't necessarily the case for Asthma, it is sometimes, just not always or even enough to give Asthma the upgrade in the majority of cases).
chronic. (n.d.). The American Heritage® Stedman's Medical Dictionary. Retrieved July 28, 2012, from Dictionary.com website: http://dictionary.reference.c...
However I am aware of the NHLBI guidelines http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/heal... however please note that I haven't said that the disease is cured. That said there isn't actually an actual definitive diagnosis for Asthma http://www.nhs.uk/Conditions/... only indicators of inflammation. Take for instance other diseases that can be diagnosed such as AIDS which does have a direct diagnosis or tell tale signs that it is what it says it is and not just a wheezy cough.
Thus my conclusion is that while some doctors might be calling it a chronic, incurable disease...there isn't actually any proof of this [because there isn't an actual diagnosis aside from the Doctors say so], it's just nothing they have tried works yet. Beyond that the human body is very gifted at healing itself above and beyond scientific reasoning. http://www.aafa.org/display.c...
Tum tum teh tum...long time since I've looked at the NHLBI, I thought they'd been absorbed by another organisation >.<;
So effectively, you've switched from one drug to another...slightly safer drug. >.<; You might want to consider taking up 'nicotine' again, have a chat to your doctor about it. (Don't start smoking. BAD!). You can get nicotine inhalers and various other things that don't put as much strain on your body. (There's some debate whether Nicotine itself is better or worse than the steroids in the asthma drug)
Nicotine and and of itself, is as harmful as caffeine, just as addictive too. That said I completely agree, staying away from Nicotine is a good thing.
That said unlike common opinion it has very little to do with being lazy but it does have a lot to do with the immune system (I think...last time I checked it causes the wind pipe and lungs to be inflamed). I also don't think it has a cure. The reason I say it has little to do with being lazy is because I know a number of marathon runners who have asthma...two rugby players and a numberphile who won a rowing race as part of a team in Oxford.
chronic. (n.d.). The American Heritage® Stedman's Medical Dictionary. Retrieved July 28, 2012, from Dictionary.com website: http://dictionary.reference.c...
However I am aware of the NHLBI guidelines http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/heal... however please note that I haven't said that the disease is cured. That said there isn't actually an actual definitive diagnosis for Asthma http://www.nhs.uk/Conditions/... only indicators of inflammation. Take for instance other diseases that can be diagnosed such as AIDS which does have a direct diagnosis or tell tale signs that it is what it says it is and not just a wheezy cough.
Thus my conclusion is that while some doctors might be calling it a chronic, incurable disease...there isn't actually any proof of this [because there isn't an actual diagnosis aside...
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chronic. (n.d.). The American Heritage® Stedman's Medical Dictionary. Retrieved July 28, 2012, from Dictionary.com website: http://dictionary.reference.c...
However I am aware of the NHLBI guidelines http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/heal... however please note that I haven't said that the disease is cured. That said there isn't actually an actual definitive diagnosis for Asthma http://www.nhs.uk/Conditions/... only indicators of inflammation. Take for instance other diseases that can be diagnosed such as AIDS which does have a direct diagnosis or tell tale signs that it is what it says it is and not just a wheezy cough.
Thus my conclusion is that while some doctors might be calling it a chronic, incurable disease...there isn't actually any proof of this [because there isn't an actual diagnosis aside from the Doctors say so], it's just nothing they have tried works yet. Beyond that the human body is very gifted at healing itself above and beyond scientific reasoning. http://www.aafa.org/display.c...
Tum tum teh tum...long time since I've looked at the NHLBI, I thought they'd been absorbed by another organisation >.<;
I hope you are able to cope with it :(