Anyone else yawn while reading this? No joke.
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Originally Posted by Ustwo
Another way to eliminate it, at least in some people, is to give the defensive cells what they expect, lots of irritants. In your case smoking would do just that, keeping those cells all busy and happy and not going into an asthma flare up. Obvously smoking has enough risk to not want to use it as a regular cure.
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It still would seem ironic. My friend has asthma and smokes for this same reason though. It just seems weird as smoking is what made my cousin's lungs go to shit.
My thoughts: It's probably psychological and not a response in order to quickly oxygenate your body.