Today we launched our 3rd edition of the Hungry For Air: Breathing Better Together series of booklets. In a national survey done by the American Lung Association in 2004, we found out that nearly 64% of smokers are not concerned about getting Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) – also known as emphysema and chronic bronchitis. The survey also told us that more than half of smokers (55 percent) experience at least one of the symptoms of COPD a minimum of once a week.
COPD is often mistaken for a sign of aging and is usually dismissed. I’d like to review some of the primary symptoms of COPD. If you have any of these symptoms and you have been a smoker for at least 10 years, I ask you to call you doctor and ask for a lung function test.
- shortness of breath during exercise- shortness of breath at rest- Chronic cough especially in the morning- Cough production of sputum
Here is one comment we recently heard from someone with COPD: “You have to change, but it can be done. Do not give up. There is something you can do!”
We hope you have been informed or inspired by the Breathing Better Together series. We welcome your comments. If you have specific questions, please click here or call 1-800-LUNG-USA
COPD is often mistaken for a sign of aging and is usually dismissed. I’d like to review some of the primary symptoms of COPD. If you have any of these symptoms and you have been a smoker for at least 10 years, I ask you to call you doctor and ask for a lung function test.
- shortness of breath during exercise- shortness of breath at rest- Chronic cough especially in the morning- Cough production of sputum
Here is one comment we recently heard from someone with COPD: “You have to change, but it can be done. Do not give up. There is something you can do!”
We hope you have been informed or inspired by the Breathing Better Together series. We welcome your comments. If you have specific questions, please click here or call 1-800-LUNG-USA
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