Effects of ecigs on Asthmatics

[dnakr]

good topic, hope it gets moved to the health section.

Moved...

[mEtoke2]

Since quitting real smokes and starting to e-smoke, I haven't had one asthma attack. That's 3 months asthma free!

[SANJP]

The coughing up flem after you give up smoking is something that I had on my mind when I gave up smoking . I had the same as you Darcy nothing came up .

Anyway after hours of research and a trip to the doctors it turns out your age has alot to do with it

apparently our lungs stop self cleaning after we reach 30-35

after I thought about it kinda made sense to me when I was younger (20-25) I used to cough up every morning after a club or heavy smoking nite, but after 30 I noticed I didn't cough up anymore.

so my top tip try give up before your 30 !

[4myhealth]

I see that this thread has been buried and since I am a newbie (waiting on my 1st e-cig to arrive) I wanted to bump this up. I have been smoking for 23-years, 1-pack a day (marlboro ultra lights 100's). I have had asthma for as long as I can remember. I go thru 3 albuterol inhalers per month (and before they were banned in the US in Dec, I bought 14 of them at the local pharmacy (all that they had left) - out of pocket expense (pretty price tag).

Needless to say, I am almost out of them and it's only March 11th. Last week my doctor put me on Prednisone and Symbicort (COPD strength, although he (dr.) didn't explain why). I've used Prednisone in the past and it really cleared me out and made me feel "normal". However, today I took my last pred pill and I still have that nasty, super deep in the lungs, junky cough. It didn't clear up this time....

Can any other asthmatic smokers relate to this, meaning the total addiction or abuse of asthma medications, etc. If so, have your asthma symptoms and use of meds improved drastically after quitting the analogs and switching over to the e-cigs?

Thanks for your input/insight/suggestions!

[taukimada]

spotted this topic by chance....

being asthmatic myself since forever... i can understand the concerns..

me personally.. i have not fully cut the analogs out myself as ive just had some bad luck with my hardware so far... but now that im up to top gear.. im hoping that i should be simply finishing my last two packs and done with them..

here's my thinking on it though.. it cant be MORE harmful than all the cancer causing carcinigens we've BEEN putting in our lungs already!!

i DO find on the occasions where my gear was fully working and i actually did abstain from analogs... i felt AWESOME.. i could breathe... almost dared to take a jog

as a side note... while not a cure for asthma in the very least.. i would recommend the use of vaping instead of just up and quitting... i noticed someone here mentioned they STARTED smoking because of asthma.. which ironically makes more sense than you'd expect.. as i've actually had this conversation with a dr once.. i explained that SOMETIMES.. whilst in the midst of an attack.. i've been known to light one up and i start to feel better... he actually pointed out that the process of smoking a cig involves rythmic steady breathing.. which is actually the first defense for an attack.. he did of course admonish me for the smoking... but he admitted that it still made perfect sense.

another side note... im curious how many of us are dissapointed in the tendency of drs these days of trying to force us to use daily meds when we dont have daily attacks.. i don't know about you.. but im not keen on the steroid approach or the idea of taking a daily dose of something that i only need every FEW days.. i think we are being WAY over medicated which is ad when you realize that most of the inhaled meds actually cause SOME lung damage that we will pay for dearly later... my $.02

[MonkeyMonk]

4myhealth my mother was on Albuterol and our doctor and the pharmacy related that ProAir and one other one (sorry, can't remember the name) were the replacements. Both doctor and pharmacist related that the drug was the same in Pro Air and Albuterol, but that the delviery method was changed.

Maybe you could ask your druggist and then your doctor about ProAir.

[4myhealth]

taukimada - that is great to hear that you felt awesome when you didn't smoke the analogs - gives me something to look forward to! I agree with the nasty meds being constantly "forced" onto us. I was on Advair a few years ago. It gave me incredible chest pains so I stopped taking it. Now they have the warning that it can cause cardiac arrest! Glad I quit but now I just heard that Symbicort has the same issues. Just lovely.....I've got to get off of the asthma meds ASAP!

Monkey - I do have a RX for ProAir, however, they are way more expensive than the old style Albuterol inhalers, hence the reason I stocked up. I used to pay $10 per month for Albuterol but the same amount of ProAir runs me $75 a month. Huge increase in our monthly budget! But I do thank you for the suggestion.

[teardrop88]

I'm asthmatic myself and was actually quite surprised. If anything, vaping has really helped me during attacks. Inhalers and antihistamines help keep my lungs open, but the phlegm has always been a problem as I am used to be coughing for hours after an attack. The propylene glycol contained in the juice is known to for it's ability to bond with water and I've found it to help clear up my cough within an hour. I'm no doctor, and no, I would not recommend vaping in place of any medication, just an added bonus I noticed.

[taukimada]

ever since i first started reading on this forum i've always wondered something...

from what i've read.. the original ruyan patent involved more of a nebulizer inner workings than the heated coil we currently use... with this knowledge i think it's relatively safe to assume that our ejuice would POSSIBLY work in a nebulizer... sooooooo... anybody think our albuteral for the neb would possibly work in an ecig??... i'm not planning on suiciding an atomizer to try it.. but i've always been curious

[taz3cat]

4myhealth, the Prednisone and symbcort are for imflamation. If you quit taking Prednisone your imflamation comes back. Your not additicted, you just need the medication to keep down the imflamation.