Resources for COPD Health Professionals

Expand Your Knowledge:

Take a Training or Educational Course to Support Your Patients Living with COPD

Attend a COPD Educator Course to learn guidelines-based care while earning continuing education credits.
Explore our Spirometry Training resources to learn how to conduct and interpret spirometry results.
Complete the free, one hour, on-demand training, Ask, Advise, Refer to Quit Don’t Switch. This training is based on the CDC’s Ask, Advise, Refer brief intervention model.
Become as a Freedom From Smoking Facilitator to help your patient end their additional to tobacco.

From the American Lung Association

Complete with your patient a COPD Action Plan and Management Tool.
Share the Living with Lung Disease and the Benefits of Quitting with patients who are looking to quit smoking.
Patients may have questions about the benefits of oxygen therapy. Download this resource How Can Oxygen Therapy Help Me?
Encourage physical activity and use Staying Active with Lung Disease to discuss the types of activity that may benefit their lung health.
Patients can prepare and stay organized for their next healthcare provider appointment by filling in Getting Ready for Your Next Office Visit.
Point your patients and their loved ones to additional trusted COPD videos and printed resources.
Use the COPD & Asthma Medication Chart to help your patients identify and understand their medication.
EBV Therapy for Patients with Severe COPD

From NHLBI’s Learn More Breathe Better® program

Order the free COPD Healthcare Provider Toolkit to start the conversation with your patients about living with COPD.
Share the COPD one pager, Are You at Risk?
Talk to your patient about COPD and staying up to date with vaccinations by using the one pager, COPD and Vaccines: What you Should Know.
Discuss Living Better with COPD with your patient for steps to improve their COPD self-management.
Share the PSAs What is COPD? and Learn About Spirometry for an interactive educational opportunity.

Become a trained facilitator for Better Breathers Clubs and offer educational programming to help your patients breathe easier.
Direct your patients to in-person and online support groups and learning opportunities:
- Attend a Better Breathers Club—support groups for adults with chronic lung disease.
- Encourage patients to join the Better Breathers Network, which is a nationwide, online patient support program providing direct access to education, support and connection to others also living with chronic lung disease.
- Refer your patient to our Freedom From Smoking cessation program to help them quit for good.
- Join our Living with COPD online community at Inspire for peer-to-peer support from others also living with COPD.
- Call, email or chat with a health professional at our free call center, the Lung HelpLine.

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Page last updated: April 17, 2024