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Healthy living with COPD
How to live your best life while managing COPD
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There is no cure for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), but there are steps you can take to live well if you have it.
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Stop smoking traditional or electronic cigarettes.
Quitting smoking traditional or electronic cigarettes is the most important thing you can do to prevent COPD from getting worse.
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Monitor what you breathe.
This means avoiding lung irritants such as:
- Smoke, including passive smoke
- pollution
- Cleaning products
- Chemicals or aerosols
- air fresheners
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Stay active and maintain a healthy weight.
These two measures could make it easier to breathe with COPD.
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Get vaccinated.
Keeping up to date with vaccinations is an easy and effective way to protect yourself from infections that affect your lungs, such as Covid, pneumonia and the flu.
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Ten regular consultations with a pulmonologist.
It is important to have regular consultations with a specialist who understands COPD. Since COPD worsens over time, it is important to have further evaluations as you age to ensure that treatments change appropriately as your situation evolves.
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Take your medications.
There are many treatments available that will be helpful for COPD symptoms, but they will only be helpful if you take the medications.
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Learn breathing exercises.
In the same way that aerobic exercises strengthen your heart muscle, breathing exercises will be helpful for your lungs.
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Join a support group.
Sharing your experiences with others who know what you’re going through might make the tough times a little easier.
This educational resource was prepared in collaboration with the COPD Foundation and with the support of GSK, Regeneron and Sanofi.
