Teen Smoking and Effects on Asthma
As research and technology have matured, the medical community has discovered the numerous negative side effects that smoking has on not just everyone in general, but also the greater impact on teens and children. If you are a teen and have asthma, smoking puts you more at risk because of the additional damage that it is doing to your lungs. When you see a regular or long time smoker cough or wheeze, this is from the smoke irritating their lungs and airways resulting in a large amount of mucus build-up. This is very similar to what occurs when you have an asthma attack. Kids and teens that have asthma and smoke are known to have more numerous asthma attacks and sometimes more severe. The worst-case being, a severe asthma attack that your medicine or inhaler can not control!
Smoking Effects on Kids with Asthma Who Smoke
Don’t feel ashamed because you smoke. Most adult smokers today started when they were under 21 and many when they were a teenager. We didn’t know what we know now about the dangers of smoking to underaged teens and tweens, and we do know that kicking the habit is a very hard thing to do. If you smoke and have asthma, use this as an added incentive to ask your parents or non-smoking friends for help in stopping smoking. Depending on how much you smoke, it can have the unintended consequence of negating the effects of your asthma inhaler and make you use your rescue medication more often than need be. It can also interrupt your sleeping habits and cause you to under-perform during sports activities from the increased attacks. Even if you haven’t seen the attacks increase, they will…its just a matter of time. If you make the decision to stop smoking, ask for help in getting a stop smoking aid or nicotine replacement therapy to help you quit.
Second Hand Smoke Effects on Kids with Asthma
You don’t have to smoke as a teenager or tween with asthma to be negatively affected by second hand smoke. If you put yourself into a smokey situation such as at a party or in a restaurant that permits smoking, you could have an asthma attack triggered by the second hand smoke. If you have to be in a setting that will have second hand smoke, you will need to make sure you have enough medicine on hand in the event you have attacks triggered. If you are around regular friends or family members, you should be able to ask them to smoke away from you citing the increase in asthmatic conditions you experience when around cigarette smoke.
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