Subject: {FIRSTNAME},The Lifestyle Changes That Are Necessary Hello {FIRSTNAME}, Last time we learned about chronic bronchitis and emphysema. This time we will learn about the lifestyle changes that are necessary. Part 5 -------------------------------------------------- If you are suffering from chronic bronchitis, there are necessary lifestyle changes that will in fact save your life. If you plan to continue to worsen, keep doing what you are doing now. If you want to improve your health, you have to make very important yet very difficult decisions. There’s no easy way around it. Unfortunately, giving up some of your freedoms will improve your chances of surviving what chronic bronchitis will do to you. Through a few changes in your lifestyle, you will increase your longevity. You will not add an more punishment to the condition that you are already facing. What’s more is that you give your body the chance to improve some of the damage that’s been done to you. You knew we were going to say it, but smoking is the cause of your chronic bronchitis and therefore you simply must stop doing it. This is the hardest part of the process of improving your lifestyle in the hopes of prolonging your life. If you continue to smoke, you continue to add damage to your lungs and your bronchial tubes, worsening your condition, pushing you farther and faster through the stages of chronic bronchitis and ultimately shutting off your oxygen supply completely. If you stop smoking, you stop adding additional damage to your lungs. You slow the progression of the disease significantly and, in some case, your body can repair some of the damage that has been done. Although the most difficult decision that you have to make, it is the one that will have the most significant difference in the life of a person suffering from chronic bronchitis. The good news is that there is quite a bit of help to the smoker today that can aid them in improving their chances of stopping this habit. Smoking, including that of cigarette smoke and even marijuana smoking damages the lungs and is one of the general causes of chronic bronchitis. If you work in an area that the air quality is poor, then you need to improve this quality or stop working there. Chronic bronchitis can be brought on by the air that you breathe if it is not as clean as it should be. Chemicals in the air as well as pollutants can do the same damage as smoking does. Therefore, you need to take into consideration the need for improvement of the air quality that you breathe. If the air that you breathe is not healthy, then improvement is necessary. Remove contaminants that are in the air. Reduce the use of chemicals that can also cause pollution. If this is your work environment, speak to your supervisor about moving to a more clean air area. In addition, contact your human resource manager about your rights for clean air in the work place. For more information about bronchitis, please refer to my website Take Care,