It's unlikely that your respiratory therapist would suggest e-cigarettes if inhaling flavored water vapor would be contraindicated by your specific, individual medical condition.
That said, you should double-check with a Smart
Shaman ** doctor, who has had all those particular tickets punched, as a matter of cultural sensitivity if nothing else.
If your Smart Shaman finds no legitimate medical reason why using e-cigarettes (with or without nicotine) would be harmful to you, as you will learn poking around here, it is not at all unusual to experience coughing, various tissue irritations, from throat to lips to tongue and back again, AT FIRST, but this does go away.
It may take longer to go away if you are in particularly pathetic physical shape, older than dirt, or, like me, both.
I just started not quite 2 months ago, and my coughing (which was way worse than I ever did from inhaling any plant material, and I lived through the 60s) - has only recently subsided.
You can mitigate the coughing some by alternating between nicotine-free and nicotine-havin' flavors - just keep 2 e-cigarettes handy!
Everybody will evangelize about their own preferred device, (this is a cherished ECF custom) so I'll go ahead and get mine in:
The easiest thing to start with is one that only requires you to attach 2 things together, as opposed to 3. It's called KR808d-1.
So if you're out and about more than you are in front of your computer, get one of the starter kits from vapor4life. All theirs are the KR808d-1 kind. Please forgive the pimpage, but I did
a huge blogrant all about this very thing, and it is more ergonomic and better for the environmental impact on the ECF bandwidth to link to it than type it again.
If you stay in one place most of the time, you can save some money by getting the kind of KR808d-1 you can plug into the wall and a Special Wall Rodent - $10 each at litecigusa.
Both vapor4life and litecigusa.net are
Forum Suppliers, which is ECF's list of reputable vendors. Scam artists, snake oil salesoaves and criminals cannot even buy their way onto it. This really is a very different kind of website. You're going to love it here!
** Smart Shaman smärt shämən n. A person who has not only graduated from medical school and obtained all the paperwork necessary for the legal practice of medicine in the geographic area where the paperwork was obtained, but who, in addition to a familiarity with the particulars of human biology, anatomy, physiology, and the basic precepts of clinical pathology, also and more importantly, possesses the capacity for, is in favor of, and personally and with frequency and regularity engages in, activities such as independent thought, reading (with full comprehension of the read material), and perhaps most crucial of all, the recognition and acceptance that none of us knows yingtipiddle about anything. ORIGIN: Proto-loladic, early 21st century
