copd

[BERNICE188]

if you stop smoking for 8 years and you have copd. a dr. told me that it will stay where it is and not go any further. i would like to know if this is true. he said it stays where it is.can someone answer this for me. thank you so much.

[teko]

Every individual is different. The most important thing is to stop smoking, doing this will slow the progression to a normal rate. However, it does not undo the damage already done before quitting. It also depends on your health overall, outside of the copd, and how active you are. You should be as active as you possibly can because this keeps things toned where the lungs work best. Ask your doctor about pulm rehab and take advantage.

[jeannie195607]

u can die from respatory failure , heart attacks or strokes even lung cancer so who knows when we are to die and yeah it is a death sentence in its own diagnois

[Annefun]

From what my pulmonologist told me, to stop smoking would slow the progress of the disease but "the horse was already out of the barn" so to speak.  However, COPD is a life long and life ending disease - nobody can tell you how long and/or whether some other complication of COPD might take us.  However, I did hear about someone on the net who had already had severe end stage (which I am) COPD for 19 years.
PH