Lifestyle
The Asthma UK website has lots of advice and information which can help you stay well and get on living your life with asthma:
- work
- leaving home
- travel
- sex and relationships
- seasonal celebrations
Stay active
Once you’re on the right treatment and your symptoms are under control, you can enjoy physical activity and exercise. Staying active helps to improve your overall fitness so that your lungs do not have to work so hard. Being more active also:
- boosts your immune system
- supports weight loss
- lifts your mood. If you're stressed or depressed your asthma symptoms can worsen
Speak to your GP for advice if you’re not sure about exercising or you're anxious that it will trigger your asthma symptoms.
Visit our move more webpages for information to help you get more active.
The We are Undefeatable website has information, ideas and resources to help you get started moving more.
Stop smoking
Smoking can irritate or even permanently damage the airways and can block the benefits of asthma medicines increasing the risk of an asthma attack. To reduce this risk, get help to stop smoking.
Passive smoking can also make asthma worse.
Maintain a healthy weight
Being overweight increases the load on your lungs and can make it feel a struggle to breathe easily.
Visit our healthy weight webpages for information to help you start to make changes to your weight.