What Are the Causes of Chronic Bronchitis?

Answer 1

I have Chronic Bronchitis. Am 82 years old, stopped smoking on my 24' birthday. Became a vegetarian at least 50 years ago. Lived and worked for 15 years in air polluted city in The Netherlands, moved in 1978 to the USA Was diagnosed having COPD around 1998, Chronic Bronchitis started couple years later. COPD is stable, living since 2017 in the Smokey Mountains. Clean air is doing me well, inhale Advair only once a day. Am glad COPD it's hardly progressing, but how come I got it. Do I have to blame myself, smoking cigarettes for 8 years, or is it the 15 year living/working in the polluted city?

Comments

Honestly, no one can be sure. Both smoking and pollution are risk factors for COPD, there's also a chance both of them lead you to the disease. I'm glad you've found a clean city to live in and you're in a fairly stable condition.

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I'll bet on the pollution. The chemicals in the polluted air is way more complex than the cigeratte smoke.

Answer 2

I have Chronic Bronchitis. Am 82 years old, stopped smoking on my 24' birthday. Became a vegetarian at least 50 years ago. Lived and worked for 15 years in air polluted city in The Netherlands, moved in 1978 to the USA Was diagnosed having COPD around 1998, Chronic Bronchitis started couple years later. COPD is stable, living since 2017 in the Smokey Mountains. Clean air is doing me well, inhale Advair only once a day. Am glad COPD it's hardly progressing, but how come I got it. Do I have to blame myself, smoking cigarettes for 8 years, or is it the 15 year living/working in the polluted city?

Comments

Honestly, no one can be sure. Both smoking and pollution are risk factors for COPD, there's also a chance both of them lead you to the disease. I'm glad you've found a clean city to live in and you're in a fairly stable condition.

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I'll bet on the pollution. The chemicals in the polluted air is way more complex than the cigeratte smoke.