I have slowly stopped using my asthma inhalor as much as I used to.
Part of it is because of the new asthma medication rulings that happened. Now the medication costs literally twice as much as it ever did, and there is no more over the counted medication available, which is what I was using in times of need, when I couldn't afford the already expensive "real" medication.
The other part is that Nigel has been pushing me to stop using my inhalors as much as I used to, telling me that I was addicted to them.
I was very angry at first, after all I've had asthma since I was four, shouldn't I know when I need to use it and how much of it? It's not for anything that I've spent nights at the hospital because I can't breathe, those weren't just fits of my imagination.
But then slowly I realized that I did use my inhalor too much, there were times where just taking a few deep breaths would have helped just as much as taking a puff of medication.

About three or so weeks back I ran out of medication and could not contact my doctor in order to get a renewal. I was forced to quit cold turkey the medication that I have been on for more than 20 years of my life.
Lo and behold... I did not need it! I did have a few crisis, here and there, where I was really worried, and thought I might have to go to the hospital. But I waited them out and was fine.
Since then I've gotten more medication, but now instead of using it all the time I use it only in times of emergency.
I even barely use it at night or in the morning when I wake up!
It's amazing, and very liberating. Just sad that it took the government being assholes about medication for me to realize it.