My late Nan passed to COPD and I was there, I wouldn’t wish it on my worst enemy. My doctor called it the suffocating disease and he said it’s caused by smoking. My Nan always blamed herself and on her last day she made my children promise her they’d never smoke.
i used to nurse and I nursed a lady in her early 50s dying of COPD. She had never smoked but had always been a barmaid and it was due to passive smoking years ago.
Lung cancer ‘runs’ in his family due to them all smoking. No it doesn’t. If they didn’t smoke these diseases wouldn’t attack their lungs. I hope he wakes up to that and stops. IMy Nan quit at least 10 years before her diagnosis and COPD still got her but if he stops smoking he has a chance of living a long ish life.
My dad was recently diagnosed with early stages of COPD, again due to smoking and not the same side of my family with my Nan that had it. Has my dad stopped smoking? No! He has never been a heavy smoker, 1-2 a day but he lived in the pubs in the 90s when I was a child. Surrounded by smoke. I tell him off every time we speak, he needs to stop, no matter how light a smoker he is. He wouldn’t want to pass how my Nan did.
The lifestyle change Paul needs is to stop smoking, end of. That is the lifestyle change. When he says changes it makes me wonder if he’s thinking of other things to change, and not the smoking.
HE'S ILL AGAIN!!!!