Chapter 24 Tobacco

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Chapter 24 Tobacco

• Lesson 1
• Tobacco Use - A High Risk Behavior p. 528

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Health Terms

• Addiction
• Nicotine
• Stimulant
• Tar
• Carcinogens
• Carbon monoxide
• Smokeless tobacco

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Why Young People Start Smoking

• 1/5 American teens smoke
• Every day in the US 6,000 teens light up for the
  first time
• 3,000 become regular smokers
• 9/10 adult smokers began as teens
• Of those who began smoking as teens, 1/3 will die
  from smoke related causes
• 2.6 million packs of cigarettes are sold
  illegally to minors

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Why Young People Start Smoking contd

• Many feel insecure in social situations
• Smoking will take away that feeling
• Smoking will make them seems older more
  sophisticated
• Peer pressure
• They think the bad effects of smoking can only
  occur after years of smoking
• They believe they can drop the habit anytime

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What is in Cigarettes?

• The most popular form of tobacco
• At least 43 chemicals
• Cancer causing chemicals - Carcinogens
• Cyanide
• Formaldehyde
• Arsenic
• Nicotine - a stimulant
• Tar
• Carbon Monoxide

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Smokeless Tobacco

• Sniffed
• Chewed
• Over 12 million American users
• Starting between ages 13 15
• Many believe smokeless is safer than smokingNOT
  TRUE
• Smokeless carries the same chemicals

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Smokeless Tobacco

• Health Risks of Smokeless Tobacco
• Mouth sores that can turn to cancer of
• Lips
• Mouth
• Throat
• Damage to teeth and gums
• Damage to digestive system

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Other Forms of Tobacco

• Pipes
• Cigars
• More tar and harmful chemicals are generated
• Greater chance of lip, mouth and throat cancer

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Benefits of Being a Nonsmoker

• Better able to taste food
• Better endurance and energy
• for other things
• Reduced risk of cancer, heart disease, other
  life threatening diseases
• Feeling better about yourself

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Chapter 24 Tobacco

• Lesson 2
• What Tobacco Does to the Body p. 533

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Motivator

• List all of the possible
• consequences of tobacco use
• that you can recall.

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Health Terms

• Leukoplakia
• Passive smoke
• Mainstream smoke
• Sidestream smoke

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Why does a tobacco user want more?
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Why does a tobacco user want more?

• The constriction of the blood vessels causes a
  mild high. When the vessels return to normal,
  there is a sensation of restlessness
  irritation. The tobacco user does not like the
  discomfort will repeat the behavior that
  produced pleasure. This causes a cycle of use
  that becomes habitual. The frequent use builds
  up an addiction to nicotine.

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Effects of Smoking on the Smoker

• Short-term effects
• What happens immediately when smoking
• Long-term effects
• What happens when smoking continues

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Long-Term Effectsof Smoking

• Diseases of the Respiratory System
• Or
• Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Diseases (COPD)?
• Chronic Bronchitis
• Bronchi are irritated
• Cilia become useless
• Excess mucus secretion
• Emphysema

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Long-Term Effectsof Smoking contd

• COPD contd
• Emphysema
• Destruction of the air sacs
• Part of the lung where oxygen and
• carbon dioxide are exchanged
• Person uses about 80 of energy to breath
  compared to 5
• Lung Cancer

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Long-Term Effectsof Smoking contd

• COPD contd
• Lung Cancer
• Cilia are destroyed
• Mucus cannot be expelled
• Both of those create idea living conditions for
  cancer cell to grow
• Leading cause of cancer deaths among males
• Becoming more significant in women

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Long-Term Effectsof Smoking contd

• Diseases of the Circulatory System
• Nicotine
• Makes the heart pump faster
• Contributes to plaque (fatty deposit)?
• build-up
• Smoking
• Constricts the blood vessels
• Raises blood pressure

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Long-Term Effectsof Smoking contd

• Diseases of the Circulatory System contd
• If all Americans stopped smoking
• Heart disease deaths would be cut by almost 1/3
• Saving over 30,000 lives a year

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• What is the reason a person with heart disease is
  told to avoid smoking?
• Why does the heart need to work harder in a
  smoker than a non smoker?
• What happens to the heart when it has to work
  overtime?

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The Dangers of Smokeless Tobacco

• Nicotine is just as harmful as smoking
• Tar chemicals go to the digestive urinary
  systems
• Leukoplakia
• May develop into cancer
• 50 survive

• Greater tooth wear
• Bad breath
• Discolored teeth
• Receding gums
• Exposed roots
• More decay
• Tooth loss

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Smoking During and After Pregnancy

• 6,200 childhood deaths occur yearly due to
  parents smoking
• 2,800 from low birth weight due to pregnancy
  smoking
• 1,100 due to respiratory infections

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Smoking During and After Pregnancy contd

• Smoking During Pregnancy is Associated with
• Small fetal growth
• Increased chance of spontaneous abortion,
  prenatal death, still births
• Growth and developmental problems
• Intellectual behavioral characteristics
  problems
• Children of smokers have more than double the
  chances of lung cancer than those of nonsmokers.

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Smoking During and After Pregnancy contd

• How?
• Nicotine pass through the placenta to the fetus
• Carbon monoxide decreases oxygen concentration in
  the blood
• All harmful substances can be passed to the
  infant while breast-feeding

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Smoking vs Smokeless

• Using smokeless tobacco
• is less dangerous
• than smoking

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Rights of the Nonsmoker

• You have the right to ask a smoker to not smoke
  near you or in the presents of you. They can
  move to a designated smoking area.
• You have then right to go to a smoke-free seating
  area or establishment.

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Chapter 24 Tobacco

• Lesson 3
• Choosing to be Tobacco Free
• p. 539

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Health Terms

• Nicotine withdrawal
• Nicotine substitutes

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Strategies for Quitting

• Filters - a series of filters are added to the
  smoking tobacco to gradually decrease the amount
  of nicotine and tar consumed
• Nicotine substitute administer the chemicals in
  a decreasing manner
• gum (OTC)?
• patch (prescription)
• Nasal spray

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Benefits of Quitting

• Improved cardiovascular endurance
• Easier breathing
• Decreased chance of heart disease and stroke
• A sense of freedom and renewed vigor
• No concern of where to light up
• No glances from nonsmokers
• Saved or money spent on other things

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Tips for Quitting

• Ask yourself write answers on paper
• How much do you smoke?
• When do you smoke?
• Where do you smoke?
• What triggers the desire to smoke?
• Who much does smoking cost?
• What are the health concerns?
• Who am I affecting (family, friends, etc)?

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Tips for Quitting contd

• Set and Write Goals
• Why do you want to quit?
• Post goals around the house
• Re-read goals when the urge to smoke arises
• Develop stress management techniques

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Tips for Quitting contd

• Stress Management
• Set a specific date and stick to it.
• Set short term goals to reinforce the long term
  goal of QUITTING
• Decide which approach(es) will be used
• Get your environment ready for a smoke-free life
• Set up a support system

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Toward a Smoke-Free Society

• Sales of tobacco products are more strictly
  enforced
• Tobacco license are revoked
• Vending machines are moved to better supervised
  areas
• City laws restricting smoking in public places
• Restaurants
• Civic buildings
• Business offices
• lobbies
• Airlines prohibit smoking on planes
• Hotels designate smoking and non-smoking floors
• Laws are in proposal to ban smoking in all public
  places
• Business ban smoking at meetings and workplaces
• Hosts at parties ask guests to smoke outside