November is National COPD Awareness Month
With early diagnosis and treatment, people with COPD can improve their quality of life and begin to breathe better.
The month of November provides the COPD community with a distinct time to come together with one voice and focus on increasing awareness of the disease. Across the country, organizations are conducting outreach and holding events to bring greater visibility to COPD and to encourage people to recognize its symptoms and get diagnosed and treated earlier.
We hope you will join the Learn More Breathe Better (LMBB) program in our efforts to promote resources and educate others. The resources below provide you with sample content for all stages of the COPD journey — signs and symptoms, diagnosis and management, and living with COPD.
Social Media Resources
At the links below, you will find suggested posts for Facebook and Twitter that you can customize. Be sure to tag @BreatheBetter on your Facebook posts and use the hashtag #COPDjourney on Twitter. Doing so allows us to find your posts, like, and share them.
- Social media posts
Text and images to share on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram - State-specific graphics
Find and share the image for your own state
Traditional Media Resources
Not using social media? To get your message out, you can announce National COPD Awareness Month in your internal and external publications; reach out to local media and encourage them to include stories on COPD; and encourage your local radio stations and news outlets to run public service announcements (PSAs).
- Best practices
Tips for reaching out to media outlets - Sample news announcement
Share this from your own organization - Talking points
Conversation starters for external engagement - Public Service Announcements (PSAs) and Videos
Videos and radio scripts to share with your local tv station or on social media