Lungs that are affected by COPD

Living With COPD

Life with COPD can be a challenge, but it can be easier if you learn and use strategies to cope with symptoms like shortness of breath. Discover ways to maintain your health and live well with COPD.

You can have other medical problems with COPD

Diseases that Commonly Occur With COPD

Medically reviewed by Sanja Jelic, MD

Breathing exercises with COPD

A Multifaceted Care Plan for COPD

Medically reviewed by Sanja Jelic, MD

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Airway Clearance Devices Can Help You Clear Excess Lung Mucus

Medically reviewed by Sanja Jelic, MD

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Are E-Cigarettes the Safer Choice for People With COPD?

By Deborah Leader, RN

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Surgery Risks for COPD Patients

Medically reviewed by Jenny A. Dhingra, MD

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How to Keep Working When You Have COPD

Medically reviewed by Sanja Jelic, MD

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Should You Use a Pulse Oximeter to Monitor Your COPD?

Medically reviewed by Sanja Jelic, MD

Healthy Food to Include in a COPD Diet

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How to Manage Panic Attacks When You Have COPD

Medically reviewed by Armeen Poor, MD

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How You Can Get Better Sleep When You Have COPD

Medically reviewed by Sanja Jelic, MD

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Tips for Traveling with Supplemental Oxygen

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The Best Home Pulmonary Rehab Exercise Equipment

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Why COPD and Heart Failure Go Hand-in-Hand

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Pink Heart Shape Padlock And Key

Why Right-Sided Heart Failure Is a Major Concern for People With COPD

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Functional Fitness for COPD and Asthma

The 9 Best Exercise DVDs to Help COPD Patients Get in Shape

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How Does Pneumothorax Develop in the Lungs?

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Pulmonary Rehabilitation Benefits for COPD Patients

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How Controlled Coughing Helps COPD

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How to Travel Wisely When You Have COPD

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Do You Have COPD? You're at Risk for This Reflux Disorder.

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COPD Can Make Your Oxygen Levels Drop at Night

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What Respiratory Failure Means

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Oxygen Therapy During a Power Outage

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Why Exercise Is Important if You Have COPD

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Why Won't My Cough Go Away?

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How Can a Healthy Diet Help Manage COPD?

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Find Out How Bronchiectasis Makes You Feel

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Coping with Heat When You Have COPD

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Planning and Communication Are Key to Intimacy With COPD

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How Eating Well Can Help You Manage COPD

Medically reviewed by Sanja Jelic, MD

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Learn How to Stop Your Anxiety Over Breathing When You Have COPD

Medically reviewed by Sanja Jelic, MD

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An Overview of Nasal Cannulas

Medically reviewed by Sanja Jelic, MD

Smoking as pollution

4 Tips for Avoiding Secondhand Smoke on the Road With COPD

Fact checked by Ashley Hall

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How to Properly Use an Incentive Spirometer

Medically reviewed by Sanja Jelic, MD

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Antioxidants May Help Treat Patients With COPD

Medically reviewed by Sanja Jelic, MD

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10 Ways to Conserve Your Energy If You Have COPD

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Using a Bronchodilator Inhaler the Right Way Is Tricky

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Portable Oxygen Concentrator

The 8 Best Portable Oxygen Concentrators of 2021

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The Benefits of Walking for People With COPD

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What to Know About COPD and the Pneumonia Vaccine

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Smoking is a big risk factor for COPD.

The Many Hazards of Cigarette Smoking

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Do Herbal and Alternative Remedies Help COPD?

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Adult Vital Signs and How to Measure Them

Medically reviewed by Anita C. Chandrasekaran, MD, MPH

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Getting Started With a Low Sodium Diet for COPD

Medically reviewed by Sanja Jelic, MD

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Predicting Life Expectancy in People With COPD

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Everything You Need to Know About Bronchiectasis

Medically reviewed by Sanja Jelic, MD

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Practical Tips for COPD Pain Management

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Why COPD Causes Fatigue

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5 Tips to Reduce Shortness of Breath in Cold Weather

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Why Some Healthy or Everyday Foods May Worsen Your COPD Symptoms

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How to Get Medicare to Cover Your Oxygen Supplies

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How Alcohol Affects Lung Disease

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Quitting Smoking

10 Lifestyle Changes That Can Improve COPD

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Diagnosis of Bronchiectasis

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How Quitting Smoking Can Help Your Lungs—Even After a COPD Diagnosis

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Can an Anti-Inflammation Diet Help People With COPD?

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5 Ways to Prevent COPD From Getting Worse

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Vitamin D Deficiency and COPD

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How to Be Safe When Using Supplemental Oxygen Therapy

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What Should You Do If You Have COPD and Sleep Apnea?

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How Secondhand Smoke Can Cause Many Illnesses

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These Conditions Are the Most Common Complications of COPD

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Top 10 Houseplants That Clean Indoor Air Quality

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Health Problems That Complicate the Effects of COPD

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