You can get "better" COPD is degenerative, but you can increase the function of remaining lung. In 2016 I was diagnosed stage 4, fev1 was 27.5 I quit smoking , treadmill and work out almost everyday. Was tested last week and Fev1 was 40! Ia now technically stage 3. All relative. Still winded, use o2 at night when I sleep. keep chugging along.

I have a question does any one experience a dry mouth n also the roof of your mouth upon waking in the morning and upon going to bed at night? It's so bad I can't even swallow have to Clear my throat from the mucus so I can swallow again. Keeps me up all night. Tried everything sleeping on extra pillows, tried sleeping with my mouth shut for I am a mouth breather,which doesn't help. Any suggestions are appreciated.ready to just give up and die because I can't live like this and I give the ones that can alot of credit .Thank you

Quit smoking over 2years ago.i feel ok except for getting out if breath trying to do things On symbicort which does help with emphysema, but I Ijust do what I can and when I start to get out of breath I just sit down and take a break.

When I first quit smoking it was like I'd never smoked at all; I was doing things I'd done before like climbing the hills around the old homestead, I built myself a shed and did a lot of renovations around the house. I was out there walking for miles and exploring everything I could possibly want to and got into a few hobbies I'd been working on. I got lazy though and stopped the exercise thinking I was getting enough but I got the flu and it really hit me hard and I was never able to recover completely, I get along okay though but not like I want to. I hope there is some good advice in these lines for anyone that takes the time to read them.

Let's stay in touch. Won't say anything if you don't quit...that use to make me nervous when people did that to me. We quit when we are sick and tired of being sick and tired.