What's the difference between hydrating the bronchial airways with a nebulizer and an APV? A 40+ year smoker off analogs for 2 months, I get in a steamy shower and I cough up clear phlegm. I vape excessively and I cough up clear phlegm. I go to the steam room at the spa ( OK only twice because my employer offered free visits), I cough up clear phlegm. Why should I pay for an albuteraol prescription when just hydrating my lungs does the same thing?
What's the difference?
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If you are seriously considering dropping albuterol, you need to see your doctor first. I wouldn't bank on vaping hydrating your lungs, but rather the opposite as PG and VG pull moisture from your body (this is why you see vapor). A nebulizer is also far more than simply "hydration," but that's a conversation to have with your physician or a respiratory therapist.
Albuterol is a powerful medication that relaxes the smooth muscle of the bronchi (I get that you probably know this, just putting it out there for others), and it can be a life saving drug during asthma attacks/acute COPD exacerbations/etc. vaping is NOT a substitute for prescribed medication, and does not do the same thing as albuterol. It took me 4 years of not smoking (two+ of those vaping, and I only smoked for 8 years) to ditch my inhaler, and even then I wouldn't dream of doing so without your doctor's approval. My 2 cents.
Albuterol is a powerful medication that relaxes the smooth muscle of the bronchi (I get that you probably know this, just putting it out there for others), and it can be a life saving drug during asthma attacks/acute COPD exacerbations/etc. vaping is NOT a substitute for prescribed medication, and does not do the same thing as albuterol. It took me 4 years of not smoking (two+ of those vaping, and I only smoked for 8 years) to ditch my inhaler, and even then I wouldn't dream of doing so without your doctor's approval. My 2 cents.
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