How to Take Care of

our Respiratory and

Circulatory System

Stop Smoking
By quitting smoking, you can: Lengthen
your life expectancy. Decrease your
risk of disease (including lung cancer,
throat cancer, emphysema, heart
disease, high blood pressure, ulcers
and reflux, erectile and sexual
dysfunction, kidney disease, and other
conditions)

Exercise
During exercise, the body uses more
oxygen and produces more carbon
dioxide due to the muscles working
harder. To cope with this extra
demand, the body responds by
breathing deeper and more often to
take in the oxygen needed.

Eat Healthy Foods

Eating the right foods and nutrients
can give us energy to stay active
throughout the day, supports our
immune system and improve our
health—even our lung health! The right
nutrients in your diet can help you
breathe easier, and in some cases,
help minimize asthma symptoms.

Balance Diet
It’s important to eat a nutritionally
balanced and varied diet, and to
maintain a healthy body weight. If you
have a lung condition, eating well is
especially important. Foods and fluids
contain essential nutrients to help
prevent infections and keep your lungs
healthy.

Avoid Indoor and

Outdoor Air pollution
For people with chronic respiratory
disease like COPD, reduction of
exposure to indoor and outdoor air
pollution can reduce the risk for acute
exacerbation of COPD. For asthma
patients, less exposure can reduce the
onset of asthma.

Created By: Rica Mae Guzman