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I’m newly diagnosed
Understand the basics, learn the language and prepare useful questions for your healthcare team.
Start with the essentials →COPD charity support shaped by lived experience
Living with COPD is hard enough. Finding help shouldn’t be.
Wheezy Does It gives people living with COPD—and the families and friends beside them—a clearer way to find trusted information, practical resources and compassionate support.
Need urgent breathing help?
Call 999 for severe breathing difficulty, blue or grey lips or skin, chest pain or sudden confusion. For worsening symptoms, contact NHS 111, your GP or COPD team.
Start where you are
What would help you today?
Choose the route that best matches where you are in your COPD journey.
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I’m living with COPD
Find practical ideas for breathlessness, flare-ups, daily routines and planning ahead.
Explore everyday support →03
I support someone with COPD
Learn how to offer informed, compassionate support while looking after your own wellbeing too.
Find support for carers →
Our purpose
Why Wheezy Does It exists
A COPD diagnosis can bring unfamiliar terms, difficult decisions and too many unanswered questions. We exist to make that journey clearer, more practical and less lonely.
“Nobody living with COPD should be left to work everything out alone.”
Make COPD information easier to understand
Clear language, focused guidance and direct routes to trusted help.
Turn lived experience into practical support
Useful questions, reminders and resources that help people feel better prepared.
Build a kinder COPD community
A welcoming space for people with COPD, carers, families and supporters.
Practical help
Useful places to begin
Find the support, resources and practical information most people need first.
Free COPD resources
Download practical guides designed to support everyday life with COPD.
Browse resources →Help and community
Find emotional support, practical reminders and routes to further help.
Find support →Air quality and COPD
Understand how air quality may affect symptoms and help you plan your day.
View air quality →Heat and COPD
Read practical hot-weather information for people living with a lung condition.
Read heat guidance →
Our story
A difficult diagnosis became a reason to help
“The information I needed should not have been so difficult to find.”
Wheezy Does It began after a COPD diagnosis, repeated flare-ups and the realisation that essential practical information had not always been explained clearly.
That experience became the reason to build something better: a charity focused on clearer information, free resources and a community where people affected by COPD feel understood.
Our standard
What people should expect from us
Plain language, readable layouts and no unnecessary complexity.
Practical information that helps people understand what to do next.
Trusted sources, visible review dates and clear medical boundaries.
Compassionate support that respects every person’s experience.
Help us build something the COPD community can rely on
Suggest a resource, share an experience, contribute a story or talk to us about working together.