Tips To Help You Avoid Developing COPD

Avoid Smoking And Second-Hand Smoke

The behavior of smoking is linked to COPD. In fact, it is the leading cause of COPD and takes up approximately ninety percent of all COPD cases. Tobacco smoke damages the airways, air sacs, and lung linings and causes emphysema and chronic bronchitis which produces symptoms like shortness of breath, breathing difficulties, chronic dry cough, and these symptoms worsen over time. Research has shown that second-hand smoke can also result in COPD and second-hand smoke is responsible for nine percent of all smoking-related deaths. The best way to avoid COPD caused by smoking is to quit first-hand smoking and completely avoid second-hand smoke. Come up with a strategy for quitting smoking that suits you best.

Strategies may include avoiding certain triggers like alcohol or coffee, trying a nicotine-replacement therapy, going cold turkey, substituting healthier behaviors like increasing exercise or repeating self-affirmations.