The role of active smoking in the management of COPD

In the final episode of Season 4, Dr Surya Bhatt is here to discuss the influence of continued smoking on COPD with Dr Richard Russell. They will discuss how smoking can impact treatment decisions, how we can get our patients to stop smoking and the effects smoking can have on COPD outcomes.^1–3 Dr Russell will then dive into a new publication on the impact of air quality on exacerbations during the COVID-19 lockdown,⁴ before highlighting what’s hot on social media. This week, the focus is on singing for lung health and how to better engage our patients!

^1. Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease. Updated 2022. Available at: https://goldcopd.org/. Last accessed: November 2022;
^2. Sonnex K, et al. BMJ Open 2020;10:e037509;
^3. Au DH, et al. J Gen Intern Med 2009;24:457–463;
^4. Montiel-Lopez F, et al. ERJ Open Res 2022;8:00183–2022.

Disclosure:
Dr Surya Bhatt
Dr Bhatt has received grants from the National Institutes of Health, has served on advisory boards for Boehringer Ingelheim and Sanofi/Regeneron and has received continuing medical education fees from Integrity CE within the past 3 years.

Bio:

Dr Surya Bhatt
Dr Surya Bhatt is an Associate Professor of Medicine in the Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), and is the Director of the UAB Lung Imaging Lab. He also serves as the Medical Director of the UAB Pulmonary Function Testing and Exercise Physiology Lab, and as the Medical Director of the UAB Telehealth and Center-based Pulmonary Rehabilitation programmes. His research focus is on developing new imaging metrics for the early diagnosis, phenotyping and precision-based therapy of COPD.

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The Medical Insider COPD podcast series discusses hot topics in the world of COPD with those who know it best, aiming to spread information, debunk myths and improve the lives of patients. The Editorial Board of the Medical Insider COPD podcast is comprised of Professor James Chalmers, the British Lung Foundation Chair of Respiratory Research at the University of Dundee (UK), Professor Michael Dreher, the Head of the Department of Pneumology and Intensive Care Medicine at the University Hospital Aachen (Germany), and the host and moderator, Dr Richard Russell, a Consultant Chest Physician at Lymington New Forest Hospital (UK), a Senior Clinical Researcher at the University of Oxford (UK) and the founding editor of the International Journal of COPD. These series of podcasts have not been peer-reviewed, but have been vetted by the journal’s Editor-in-Chief.