Living With Emphysema

Christine Rowley, former About.com Smoking Cessation Guide, shares with us what it is like to live your life hooked up to external oxygen 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Simple things like taking a pan of hot cookies out of the oven becomes a bigger task when you're attached to 50 feet of air hose. In her article, Why You Don't Want Emphysema, Christine describes how emphysema has affected her daily life.