You knew we were going to say it, but smoking is the cause of your chronic bronchitis and therefore you simply must stop doing it. This is the hardest part of the process of improving your lifestyle in the hopes of prolonging your life.
If you continue to smoke, you continue to add damage to your lungs and your bronchial tubes, worsening your condition, pushing you farther and faster through the stages of chronic bronchitis and ultimately shutting off your oxygen supply completely.
If you stop smoking, you stop adding additional damage to your lungs. You slow the progression of the disease significantly and, in some case, your body can repair some of the damage that has been done. Although the most difficult decision that you have to make, it is the one that will have the most significant difference in the life of a person suffering from chronic bronchitis.
The good news is that there is quite a bit of help to the smoker today that can aid them in improving their chances of stopping this habit.
Smoking, including that of cigarette smoke and even marijuana smoking damages the lungs and is one of the general causes of chronic bronchitis.
What To Do
To stop smoking, you have to consider your dependence on it. Talk to your doctor about your condition, why you smoke and how important it is to your daily lifestyle. When your doctor can understand your dependency, he or she is likely to recommend the appropriate treatment for your condition.
Smoking help can be obtained by simply calling on any of the smoking hotlines. Your doctor can offer help in the way of prescription medication as well. Support groups are offered in virtually every large city to give you the support you need from others that are stopping to smoke.
There are also pills and patches that help to reduce your dependence on nicotine. When you get your nicotine from a patch, for example, you don’t do the damage that you do by smoking. Therefore, it is a safe option than using cigarettes to get that same relief.
Those that are victims of secondary smoke also need to take into consideration the very important need to remove that situation. If it is from your job, you need to find a way to remove yourself from that situation.
Secondary smoke can be just as bad and sometimes worse to the body and therefore needs to be a consideration. If your chronic bronchitis has been brought on by secondary smoke, it has to stop.
Stop smoking. It’s the single most important thing that you can do to improve your longevity in the way of chronic bronchitis. If you continue to smoke, you continue to lessen your life span. Unfortunately, there is no better way to show you the importance of this single need.