Effects of
Smoking
Effects of
Smoking
smoking is inhaling a toxic mix of more than 7,000 chemicals. Many are poisons. When these chemicals get deep into your body’s tissues,
they cause damage. Your body must fight to heal the damage each time you smoke. Over time, the damage can lead to disease.
Nicotine
Carbon monoxide
Tar
Carbon
And more than 7000 dangerous
chemicals to your body
Nicotine
Chemical in tobacco plant cells
Carbon monoxide
Poisonous gas
Tar
A mixture of chemicals Affects the ciliated cells Condenses in the lungs Linked to cancer
Linked to heart disease
1.
Every eight seconds someone in
the world dies from a tobacco
related illness/disease.
2.
On average, smokers die nearly
seven years earlier than
nonsmokers. Smoking is
responsible for one out of five
American deaths.
3. In the U.S., smoking kills more people than cocaine, heroin, alcohol, fire, automobile
accidents, homicides, suicides, and AIDS combined.
4. Reports of the Surgeon General conclude that smoking cigarettes causes heart
disease, lung and esophageal cancer, and chronic lung disease. Cigarette smoking contributes to cancer of the bladder,
5. Men who smoke increase their risk of
death from lung cancer by more than 22 times and from bronchitis and emphysema by nearly 10 times.
7. Smoking triples the risk of dying from
heart disease among middle-aged men and women.
Addiction to nicotine (The younger an
adolescent is when he begins to smoke, the more severe his level of nicotine addiction is likely to be.)
The risk of using other drugs.
Blood vessels constrict (narrow) and this
decreases blood flow which causes a rise in blood pressure.
Shortness of breath.
Carbon monoxide replaces oxygen carried by
the blood.
Skin
◦
Smoking makes you look older
◦
It makes your skin dry and leathery
◦
Wrinkles appear sooner
◦
If you get skin cancer, you are more
likely to die from it because
smoking weakens your immune
system
Hair Loss
◦
A study in the British Medical
Journal has found that smokers are
Twice as likely to lose their hair
Four times as likely to have premature gray hair Smoking messes up your immune system
Brain
◦ Nicotine is addictive as heroin, and it alters how the brain works
◦ It acts on brain cells that influence:
Mood
Concentration Learning
Alertness
Cataracts
◦ Smoking causes cataracts
◦ A cataract is a clouding of the lens of the eye
◦ The more a person smokes, the greater the chance of getting cataracts
Hearing Loss
◦ Smoking constricts (narrows) the blood vessels to the eardrums
◦ This causes smokers to start to lose their hearing earlier than people who don’t smoke.
Mouth
◦ Smoking causes wrinkles around the mouth and on the lips
◦ Smoking causes many kinds of cancers:
Lip cancer
Mouth cancer
Throat cancer
Tongue cancer
Heart Disease
◦ Smoking reduces the amount of oxygen to the heart muscle
Heart beats faster
Smokers have short breath Smokers can have chest pain Artaeries get clogged
Smokers have less chance of surviving a heart attack
than non-smokers
Lungs
◦ Chronic bronchitis
The build up of puss and mucus - coughing a lot
Emphysema - air sacs in your lungs swell and burst Lung cancer
Other Cancers
◦ Smoking also causes these cancers:
Impotency
◦ Men who smoke have increased risk of
Impotency (The inability to have an erection.)
Problems in Pregnancy
◦ Greater risk of miscarriages, still births, and premature and/or low-birth weight babies
Set your goals clearly. Keep a
journal.
Reward yourself for meeting
your goals.
Pace yourself - quitting can
take a while
Be realistic. Be careful not to
set goals, including a timeline for quitting, that are higher
than you can meet.
Don’t give up!!!
Smoking An Addiction (2011) by Margaret E
Rousset (Missouri ABE/ASE)
A Report of Surgeon General;How Tobacco
Smoke Cause Disease (2010) by Regina M. Benjamin, MD, MBA Surgeon General
(Center for Disease Conrol and Preventing)
AANA Journal/April 2001/Vol.69, No.2. The
Hazards of Surgical Smoke. Kay Ball, RN, MSA, CNOOR, FAAN. Lewis Centre, Ohio.
