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Will quitting smoking cure my asthma?

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No: It will help a lot but not cure it.Mit will also reduce your chances of developing lung, oral, thrower, esophageal , gastric and bladder cancers. Will reduce your risk of heart attack, and of ultimately developing emphysema. Nothing good comes from smoking.

Answered 7/20/2012

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Cure it? No. Help : Control it? Absolutely. You'll be amazed how much better you'll feel after a month or two of not breathing smoke and fire. The only cure for asthma is allergen immunotherapy that unfortunately works for some but not all people with asthma.

Answered 10/4/2016

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Not really: Consider asthma a lifelong condition like a missing leg, only for asthma it is not as obvious and can be controlled by avoiding triggers. It is not like appendicitis where you can take it out & you are cured. Smoking is a well known trigger to lung irritation that will always aggravate asthma to some degree. Stopping may actually let you go for years between events, or just reduce their intensity.

Answered 11/28/2017

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