Why Do We Start to Smoke

• Interested in experimenting
• Parents or friends smoke
• Looks cool
• Want to fit in
• Friends pressurize to smoke
• To get rid of gastric problem
• To fire-out stress & tiredness
• … and many other reasons

Why Do We Continue to Smoke

• Nicotine addiction Tough to quit!
• Something to do with your hands
• Stimulation nicotine stimulates
• Do not know how to quit smoking
• Feels good or like it
• Relieves or friends stress to continue
• Other reasons?

Why to Quit Smoking

• Smoking is killing you and your lovers. It is your real enemy.
• If you do not know enough about your enemy, it will defeat you.
• To defeat your enemy, you must know it in depth.

Smoking Facts:

• Tobacco is only legally sold product that is DEADLY when used exactly as the manufacturer intended.
• Smokers with 1-14 cigarettes a day, have 8 times the risk of dying from lung cancer compared to non-smokers.
• Smokers with above 25 cigarettes a day, have 25 times this risk.
• Smoking leads to an earlier menopause in women.
• On average women smokers go through the menopause up to 2 years earlier than non-smokers and are at a greater risk of developing the bony tissue disease.
• Smoking is associated with increased sperm abnormalities and with impotence in men.
• Smoking causes at least 80% of all deaths from lung cancer, around 80% of all deaths from bronchitis and emphysema and around 17% of all deaths from heart disease.
• Hundreds of the cases of lung cancer and thousands of the cases of heart disease in non-smokers every year are caused by passive smoking.
• Tobacco kills around 120,000 people in the UK every year, about 330 every day – as if a plane crashed every day and killed all its passengers, around 20% of all deaths.
• A young smoker suffering from bronchitis or emphysema who gives up will see improvement in lung function.
• Damage to lungs caused by years of smoking is permanent but quitting smoking prevents it worsening.

Smoking is Global:

• Second major cause of death in the world – about 5 million deaths each year
• 10 million deaths each year by 2020.
• Half the people that smoke today 650 million people- will eventually be killed by tobacco.

(World Health Organization)

Cigarette Contains

• Carbon Monoxide
• Arsenic
• Ammonia
• Acetone
• Formaldehyde
• Methanol (Rocket Fuel)
• Hydrogen Cyanide (Rat Poison)
• ….. and Nicotine!

Facts About Nicotine

• A drug found only in the tobacco leaf
• At low doses it can stimulate nerve cells
• At high doses it is a poison that has been used as an insecticide
• Two to three drops of pure nicotine can kill you

What Does Nicotine Do

• Within 7 seconds, one-quarter of the nicotine has gone straight to the brain.
• It has a powerful effect on the brain and the central nervous system.
• Causes your brain to release a “pleasure” chemical called Dopamine.
• Nicotine receptors on your nerve endings receive the Dopamine and create “Happy” nerve cells.
• The Dopamine gives you a false sense of well-being, and soon the body wants more and more on a regular basis.
• This is the beginning of an addiction.

Smoking: Short-Term Effects

• Bad Smell perfume will not hide it
• Bad Teeth
• Bad Breath
• Get More Colds / Sickness
• Sore Throat
• Headaches
• High Blood Pressure
• Wastage of Money

Smoking: Long-Term Effects

• Hardening of blood vessels in heart & brain
• Increased risk of heart attack & stroke
• Lung Diseases (emphysema & bronchitis)
• Increased risk of cancer
• Stomach Ulcers & Cancer
• Cataracts & blindness
• & Other illnesses

Smoking Related Diseases:

• Bronchitis
• Emphysema
• Heart disease
• Cancer
• Kidney diseases
• …. and many others

The Smoker’s Lungs:

• You can see how the lung looks without the effects of inhalation of smoke.
• Note black specks throughout indicative of carbon deposits from pollution.
• Smokers lung with cancer. This is what killed the person.
• The blackened area is just the deposit of tars that all smokers paint into their lungs with every puff they take.

Smoking Effects on Pregnancy:

Increased risk of:

• Miscarriages
• Premature births
• Low birth weight infants
• Respiratory infections
• Middle ear infections
• Meningococcal infections
• Asthma
• …. and many other health problems.

What is Second-Hand Smoke

• Second-hand smoke is more dangerous than directly inhaled smoke.
• It is harmful even when you cannot see or smell it.
• Second-hand smoke releases the same 4,000 chemicals as smoke that is directly inhaled, but often in even greater quantities
• A big number of non-smokers die from lung cancer each year because of second-hand smoke.

Second-Hand Smoke Effects

• Smoking is like killing with slow-poisoning.
• Continuously inhaling the smoke results in swear illnesses resulting to death.

Short-term:

• Eye irritation
• Headache
• Nasal discomfort and sneezing
• Cough and sore throat
• Nausea and dizziness
• Increased heart rate and blood pressure
• Increased risk for people with heart disease (angina), asthma, allergies.

Long-term:

• Childhood asthma and other breathing difficulties.
• Reduced ability to take in and use oxygen
• Heart disease and stroke
• Lungs cancer

Reasons to Quit

• Giving up smoking can reduce the risk of developing many health problems.
• Stinks, bad breath, yellow skin
• Family/Friends
• Cost too much
• Peer pressure (fewer smokers)
• Fewer places to smoke in public
• Do not like it anymore sick of it
• Other reasons?

How to QUIT?

• Formulate a plan decide on the best approach for you.
• Two ways to quit
• All at once
• Cutting back
• Based on the way you want to quit there are a lot of tools out there to help you.

Quit Aids

• Strong Will Power
• Green Cardamom
• Chew Gum
• Pills Zyban
• Nicotine Inhaler
• Breath Mint
• E-Cigarettes

Alternative Treatments:

• Acupressure
• Reiki
• Hypnosis

Tips to Quit

• The 4D’s ….. Drink water, Deep breathe, Delay and Do something different
• Brush your teeth, chew regular gum
• Eat breakfast first
• Make your home smoke free or at least limit smoking to one room
• Make your vehicle smoke free
• Exercise and eat right
• Stay positive!

References

• familydoctor.org
• www.smokefree.gov
• www.surgeongeneral.gov/tobacco
• http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/quit_smoking
• http://www.cancer.org/Healthy/StayAwayfromTobacco
• www.smokefreefamilies.org
• www.helppregnantsmokersquit.org