How to live well

Making healthier lifestyle choices can help people to live well with their long-term condition, by helping to reduce symptoms, manage pain, and prevent further conditions developing.

• Hear stories from people with health conditions who have found ways to get moving and manage their condition better (external link).

However, you might find yourself making unhealthy choices as a means of coping with the symptoms of your long-term condition and the wider impacts its having on your life.

If you’d like support to make healthy lifestyle changes, there are a range of local support services available, both in person and online. You can tailor your support programme to meet your needs.

• Alcohol support
• Drugs support
• Problem gambling
• Stopping smoking
• Weight management support.

Other local support services

• Lifestyle Advice and Support service
• We are with you - alcohol support in Wigan and Leigh (external link)
• Be Well - long term conditions scheme
• Be Well - activities in mid to later life.

Online support

• ESCAPE pain - online pain management course (external link)
• Home exercise programme - activities you can do at home (external link).

Online resources

• NHS Live Well (external link)
• Change for Life (external link)
• We Are Undefeatable (external link).