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Exactly right. Fortunately, I've got good insurance as Combivent inhalers cost $400 a pop, daily nebulizer medication even more, and although Medicare pays for the oxygen machine, it's no fun being tied to it with a tube.Take it from a 68 year old man whose wife's ( also 68) only major vice in life was smoking cigs too hard and too long, to stop. Otherwise, she may very well eventually find out the hard way, that not being able to climb 7 steps without have to stop to catcher her breath, spending 100's of dollars a month for inhalers and other meds, and needing O2 tanks to function; it simply isn't worth it. Have her go visit a COPD support group, and see and listen to those who will enlighten her as to what very well may lie ahead in her golden years.
People, if you are still smoking, please, please stop.