Self-Management Tools

Review resources to help you self-manage your chronic condition or improve your health status.

Self-management tools for chronic diseases and prevention

Healthy Weight Maintenance

About Body Mass Index (BMI)

This explains what BMI is, how it is calculated, and its usefulness as a screening tool for assessing weight categories and potential health risks. Source: CDC

BMI Calculator

This tool allows you to calculate your BMI by entering your height and weight, helping you determine if you are underweight, normal weight, overweight, or obese. Source: NIH

Steps for Losing Weight

This outlines a five-step plan for healthy weight loss, emphasizing the importance of a balanced diet, regular physical activity, and stress management. Source: CDC

Tips for Healthy Eating for a Healthy Weight

This resource provides practical advice on creating a healthy eating plan that includes a variety of nutritious foods and limits unhealthy ones. Source: CDC

Smoking and Tobacco Cessation

Quiz: How Strong is Your Nicotine Addiction?

This quiz helps you assess your level of nicotine dependence and provides strategies for quitting. Source Smokefree.gov

Tobacco and Your Health

This details the numerous health risks associated with tobacco use, including cancer, heart disease, and lung damage. Source: The American Cancer Society

Make Your Quit Plan

This resource guides you through creating a personalized plan to quit smoking, including setting a quit date and identifying triggers. Source: Smokefree.gov

How To Quit

This offers various methods and tools to help you quit smoking, including medications and support resources. Source: Smokefree.gov

Encouraging Physical Activity

Physical Activity Basics

This provides guidelines for adults on how much physical activity is needed for health benefits, including recommendations for aerobic and muscle-strengthening activities. Source: CDC

Facts about physical activity

This fact sheet outlines the benefits of regular physical activity for adults, including improved health, fitness, and quality of life.. Source: Health.gov

Get Active

This resource offers tips and suggestions to help you incorporate more physical activity into your daily routine to stay healthy and reduce cancer risk. Source: The American Cancer Society

Physical Activity Planner

This tool helps you create a personalized weekly activity plan that includes a mix of aerobic and muscle-strengthening exercises. Source: Health.gov

Exercise Activity Calculator

This calculator estimates the number of calories burned during various physical activities based on your weight and activity intensity. Source: The American Cancer Society

Don’t feel like getting active? (2min video)

This video provides motivational tips to help you get moving even when you don't feel like it. Source: Health.gov

Too busy for physical activity? (2min video)

This video offers simple exercises and strategies to stay active despite a busy schedule. Source: Health.gov

Healthy Eating

What's on your plate? Quiz

This quiz helps you assess your eating habits and provides personalized tips to improve your diet. Source: MyPlate.gov

Eat Healthy

This page offers tips and recipes to help you and your family make healthier food choices to reduce cancer risk. Source: The American Cancer Society.

Steps for Improving Your Eating Habits

This resource outlines a three-step approach to improving your eating habits by reflecting on, replacing, and reinforcing healthier choices. Source: CDC

Calculate your calorie needs

This tool estimates the number of calories you need daily to maintain or achieve a healthy weight based on your personal information. Source: The American Cancer Society

Managing Stress

Stress Screener

This tool helps you assess your stress levels and provides resources for managing stress. Source: Mental Health America

I’m So Stressed Out! Fact Sheet

This fact sheet explains the difference between stress and anxiety, and offers coping strategies. Source: NIH

Managing Stress

This page provides tips for coping with stress in healthy ways to prevent long-term health problems. Source: CDC

Improve Your Emotional Well-Being

 This resource offers steps to enhance your emotional well-being, including managing difficult emotions and practicing self-care. Source: CDC

31 Tips to Boost Your Mental Health

This list provides practical tips to improve your mental health and overall well-being. Source: Mental Health America

Mindfulness Coach (app)

This app helps you practice mindfulness to reduce stress and improve emotional well-being. Source: VA

Avoiding At-Risk Drinking

Check Your Drinking and Make a Plan to Drink Less

This tool helps you assess your alcohol consumption and create a personalized plan to reduce your drinking. Source: CDC

Alcohol Use and Your Health

This page explains the health risks associated with excessive alcohol use and provides guidelines for moderate drinking. Source: CDC

Identifying Depressive Symptoms

Depression Test

This tool helps you assess your symptoms of depression and provides resources for further support. Source: Mental Health America

Depression facts

This page provides comprehensive information about depression, including its symptoms, causes, and treatment options. Source: Mental Health America

Understanding the Link Between Chronic Disease and Depression

This fact sheet explains how chronic diseases can increase the risk of depression and vice versa, and offers guidance on managing both conditions. Source: NIH

Safe Use of Opioids

Basics About Prescription Opioids

This explains what prescription opioids are, their uses, risks, and potential side effects. Source: CDC

Preventing Opioid Use Disorder

This resource outlines strategies to reduce exposure to opioids and prevent opioid use disorder, including prescription monitoring and patient education. Source: CDC

Opioid Use Disorder

This page provides an overview of opioid use disorder, its symptoms, and treatment options. Source: The American Psychiatric Association

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