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What Causes Breathlessness After Quitting Smoking While Having Asthma?
ok im asthmatic and trying to quit smoking down to 2 to 4 a day sometimes not even that i use to smoke a pack a day 20 to 30 cigs a day . now i feel i weez on and off hitting on the inhaler every 4 to 6 hours and i get like this weird short of breath spells on and off why
Fri, 5 Jun 2015
Dear,
First of all , i appreciate your effort to cut down on smoking. You will improve if you completely stop it.
Well, you have not mentioned which inhaler you using.For patients like you, i recommend, Changing to long acting preparation(salmeterol) and steroid inhaler(beclomethasone and budecort) as asthma has bad and good days with change of season/other factors sometimes.
If you feel no relief even after that, you may get chest xray done and oral steroids may be considered , if x ray comes normal for infection.
Take Care
First of all , i appreciate your effort to cut down on smoking. You will improve if you completely stop it.
Well, you have not mentioned which inhaler you using.For patients like you, i recommend, Changing to long acting preparation(salmeterol) and steroid inhaler(beclomethasone and budecort) as asthma has bad and good days with change of season/other factors sometimes.
If you feel no relief even after that, you may get chest xray done and oral steroids may be considered , if x ray comes normal for infection.
Take Care
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Dear,
First of all , i appreciate your effort to cut down on smoking. You will improve if you completely stop it.
Well, you have not mentioned which inhaler you using.For patients like you, i recommend, Changing to long acting preparation(salmeterol) and steroid inhaler(beclomethasone and budecort) as asthma has bad and good days with change of season/other factors sometimes.
If you feel no relief even after that, you may get chest xray done and oral steroids may be considered , if x ray comes normal for infection.
Take Care
First of all , i appreciate your effort to cut down on smoking. You will improve if you completely stop it.
Well, you have not mentioned which inhaler you using.For patients like you, i recommend, Changing to long acting preparation(salmeterol) and steroid inhaler(beclomethasone and budecort) as asthma has bad and good days with change of season/other factors sometimes.
If you feel no relief even after that, you may get chest xray done and oral steroids may be considered , if x ray comes normal for infection.
Take Care
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