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Smoking

Smoking involves inhaling smoke from burning tobacco. It significantly increases the risk of lung cancer, heart disease, stroke, and other health issues. When someone quits smoking, their health starts improving within 20 minutes as carbon monoxide levels decrease, but it can take many years for the risk of certain diseases to reduce to the level of a non-smoker. Nicotine is highly addictive, making quitting difficult due to withdrawal symptoms like craving and impaired concentration. Tips are provided to help deal with triggers and manage withdrawal symptoms when quitting smoking.

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Smoking

Smoking involves inhaling smoke from burning tobacco. It significantly increases the risk of lung cancer, heart disease, stroke, and other health issues. When someone quits smoking, their health starts improving within 20 minutes as carbon monoxide levels decrease, but it can take many years for the risk of certain diseases to reduce to the level of a non-smoker. Nicotine is highly addictive, making quitting difficult due to withdrawal symptoms like craving and impaired concentration. Tips are provided to help deal with triggers and manage withdrawal symptoms when quitting smoking.

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SMOKIN

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What is smoking???
It is a practice in which a substance,
most commonly tobacco or cannabis,
is burned and the smoke tasted or
inhaled. 

It refers to the inhalation and exhalation


of fumes from burning tobacco in
cigars, cigarettes and pipes. 
Health Effects of Smoking
Tobacco smoke contains nicotine –
a poisonous alkaloid – and other
carbon
harmful substances like
monoxide, acrolein,
ammonia, prussic acid and a
number of aldehydes and
tars. 
Health Effects of Smoking
A smoker has a significantly greater chance of
contracting lung cancer than a nonsmoker,
depending on factors such as number of cigarettes
smoked daily, number of years the subject smoked and
the time in the person’s life when he or she began
smoking.

Smoking is the primary cause of chronic


obstructive pulmonary disease,
emphysema, heart disease, stroke and
other cardiovascular diseases.
Tips to help quit smoking
Reason: Smoking gives me more energy.

• Get enough rest.
• Exercise regularly.
• Take a brisk walk.
• Eat balanced, nutritious meals.
• Drink lots of water.
• Avoid getting bored.
Tips to help quit smoking
Reason: I like to touch and handle a cigarette.

• Pick up a pen or pencil when you want to


reach for a cigarette.
• Play with a coin.
• Put a plastic cigarette in your hand or
mouth.
• Hold a real cigarette if the touch is all you
miss.
• Eat regular meals to avoid being hungry.
• Take up a hobby that keeps your hands
busy.
• Have a low-fat, low-sugar snack like carrot
sticks, apple slices, or bread sticks.
Tips to help quit smoking
Reason: Smoking is a pleasure.
• Enjoy the pleasure of
being tobacco-free.
• Spend the money you save on
cigarettes on another kind
ofpleasure.
• Remind yourself of the health
benefits of quitting.
Tips to help quit smoking
Reason: Smoking helps me relax when
I'm tense or upset.
• Use relaxation techniques to calm
down when you are angry or upset.
• Exercise regularly.
• Remember that
smoking never solves the problem.
• Avoid or get out of stressful
situations that might tempt you to
smoke.
• Get enough rest.
Tips to help quit smoking
Reason: Smoking is a habit.
• Cut down gradually.
• Change your smoking routines.
• When you want a
cigarette, wait one minute.
• Be aware of every cigarette you
smoke.
• Set a date for giving up smoking
altogether and stick to it.
Tips to help quit smoking
Reason: Smoking helps me relax when
I'm tense or upset.
• Use relaxation techniques to calm
down when you are angry or upset.
• Exercise regularly.
• Remember that smoking never solves
the problem.
• Avoid or get out of stressful situations
that might tempt you to smoke.
• Get enough rest.
• Enjoy relaxation.
What happens when you quit
smoking???
• In 20 minutes, your blood pressure and
pulse rate decrease, and the body
temperature of your hands and feet
increase.
• Carbon monoxide in cigarette smoke
reduces the blood’s ability to carry
oxygen. At 8 hours, the carbon
monoxide level in your blood decreases
to normal. With the decrease in carbon
monoxide, your blood oxygen level
increases to normal.
What happens when you quit
smoking???
• At 24 hours, your risk of having a heart
attack decreases.
• At 48 hours, nerve endings start to
regrow and the ability to smell and
taste is enhanced.
• Between 2 weeks and 3 months, your
circulation improves, walking becomes
easier and you don’t cough or wheeze
as often. Phlegm production decreases.
Within several months, you have
significant improvement in lung
function.
What happens when you quit
smoking???
• In 1 to 9 months, coughs, sinus
congestion, fatigue and shortness of
breath decrease as you continue to see
significant improvement in lung
function. Cilia, tiny hair-like structures
that move mucus out of the lungs,
regain normal function.
• In 1 year, risk of coronary heart
disease and heart attack is reduced to
half that of a smoker.
• Between 5 and 15 years after quitting,
your risk of having a stroke returns to
that of a non-smoker.
What happens when you quit
smoking???
• In 10 years, your risk of lung cancer drops.
Additionally, your risk of cancer of the
mouth, throat, esophagus, bladder, kidney
and pancreas decrease. Even after a decade
of not smoking however, your risk of lung
cancer remains higher than in people who
have never smoked. Your risk of ulcer also
decreases.
• In 15 years, your risk of coronary heart
disease and heart attack in similar to that
of people who have never smoked. The risk
of death returns to nearly the level of a
non-smoker.
Why is it difficult to quit
smoking???

One word……….

NICOTINE
Why is it difficult to quit
smoking???

Nicotine is an organic compound


known as an alkoloid (meaning a
nitrogen-containing ring
compound, usually water-
insoluble and alcohol soluble)
found in the leaves of several
species of plants, predominantly
tobacco
Nicotine Withdrawal
When smokers try to cut back or quit
smoking, they experience nicotine
withdrawal.

Withdrawal symptoms include tobacco


craving, a desire for sweets,
increased coughing and impaired
performance on tasks that require
concentration

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