You should control your asthma. A preventive medicine keeps asthma episodes from starting. It works slowly over many days to stop the swelling in the airways. You take it every day even when you feel fine and can breathe well. There are also medicines you and take before running or playing to prevent episodes.
Many people take their preventive medicine all year long for many years.
You cannot become addicted or hooked on these asthma medicines even if you use them for many years. A quick relief medicine helps stop an asthma episode that has already started. It can keep the episode from getting serious. It works fast to stop the tightness and opens the airways in the lungs during an asthma episode. You take it at the first sign of a wheeze, cough, or tight chest.