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 Activity Reductions
Symptoms and activity reductions also translate into missed activities (Figure 4). Oregon smokers with asthma missed out on activities nearly two times more often than their nonsmoking asthma counterparts (25 vs. 13%, p<.05).This fact has real costs to society when the activity missed is work or school and, at a minimum, has emotional costs to the individual when the activities missed are social or familial.
Finally, most healthcare providers will not be surprised to see in Figure 5 that current smokers sought care for their worsening asthma symptoms in the past twelve months with greater regularity than nonsmoking asthmatics (46 vs. 39%, not sig).
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