Smoking and COPD
If you smoke, stopping smoking straightaway is the most effective thing you can do to prevent your COPD getting worse.
Although the damage already done to your lungs and airways cannot be reversed, giving up smoking can help to slow down or prevent further damage.
In the early stages of COPD giving up smoking may be all the treatment that you need. Even if your COPD is more advanced, you will really benefit from giving up.
Visit our stopping smoking pages for information and support to help you quit smoking. You’re 4 times more likely to quit for good if you get some specialist support.