Smoking And Health

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Smoking And Health

• Aim
• To help smokers to stop smoking by
  creating a company wide coordinated effort
• By Educating them about the effect of smoking
• Show them the benefit of not smoking
• Provide them with rehabilitation facilities.

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Respiratory System/Brain
Nicotine takes 7 seconds to reach Brain
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Why people smoke?

• Psychosocial Dependence (Something to keep
• them occupied)
• Nicotine Addiction

The addiction Model Of Smoking
Fall in nicotine levels in body
Psychological comfort restored
Withdrawal symptoms
Cigarette smoked
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Facts About Smoking 1

• Responsible for a million deaths each year
• A 20 a day smoker who started as a teen breathed
  in a kilo of tar.
• Tobacco smoke contains over 3000 chemicals,
• many of them are highly toxic
• Tobacco smoke contains over 40 known
• CARCINOGENS
• There is no safe LOW TAR cigarette or known
• safe level of consumption
• Smoking is harmful to others near you,
• colleagues, Family (Passive Smoking)

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Facts About Smoking 2

• It Impairs Immunity
• It causes sexual dysfunction
• Adverse effects of reproductive system
• Contributing factor to Sick building syndrome
• Quitting is hard. Usually people make 2 to 3
  tries,
• or more, before finally being able to quit.
  Each
• try makes you stronger and you will have
  learned
• what helps and what hurts.

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Effects of Smoking

• Preventable premature death
• Disease of blood vessels and heart
• Cancer (lung, mouth, throat, stomach, etc.)
• Respiratory disease
• Impairment of children
• Complication during pregnancy
• Stroke
• Long term suffering due to poor health
• Social Isolation
• Women who smoke and use contraceptives increase
• the risk of heart attack, stroke, CV disease ten
  folds

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Benefits Of Quitting

• The body can rid itself of nicotine and CO within
• few hours
• Blood flow to limbs improves within 2 months
• Lungs regain the capacity to clean themselves
• within 3 months
• Fresh breath
• Save money
• Alleviate tobacco stains on teeth and fingers
• More employable
• Improve coronary and peripheral circulation
• Improve exercise tolerance

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Method Of Smoking Cessation

• Try 1st step Cold Turkey
• Decide positively that you want to quit
• List all the reasons you want to quit
• Begin to condition yourself physically
• Set target date for quitting
• 2nd step Consult PDO Doctor