[1] Different terms and conditions involving this form of chronic cough were ill-defined and not well distinguished.
[5] Similar symptoms of habit cough have been reported in adults and may be the same disorder as is seen in children or adolescents.
A medical textbook from 1685 by Thomas Willis, (1621-1675) described an adult woman with “a violent dry cough following her day and night, unless she was fallen asleep,” a description that would fit the habit cough diagnosis today.
Weinberger and Lockshin wrote in 2017: "However, our experience has found habit cough to fit the syndrome best, and has been most acceptable to the families in diagnosing and explaining the nature of the disorder.
A chest x-ray and pulmonary function if the child can perform the test are generally sufficient to provide evidence for the absence of lung disease causing the cough.
Suggestion therapy was established in the 1966 publication of Bernard Berman, an allergist in Boston.