Living With a Chronic Health Condition Learning about your condition and doing your best to manage it can help you live a less fearful and more expansive life. Know Your Peak Flow You and your health care provider can use information from a peak-flow meter to help stop a flare-up in its tracks. Traveling with Asthma Whether you pack a suitcase every week or once a year, you probably know that traveling takes a little extra preparation when you have asthma.