1. Smoking

2. Each year 438,000 people die from tobacco use
Most people begin as teenagers

3. Smoking and respiration
People cough to get rid of irritants from the respiratory tract

4. Emphysema Most common of lower respiratory diseases Caused by
Scar tissue
Mucus obstruction of the respiratory tract
Bronchioles become less elastic
Destroys alveoli which exchange oxygen and carbon dioxide

5. Tobacco smoke
4,000 compounds
60 of these can cause cancer

6. Nicotine Can be found in the brain 7 seconds after smoking
Twice as fast an an IV injection

7. Choosing to smoke Voluntary Smokers are poorer than nonsmokers
Smokers are less educated than nonsmokers

8. Why do people smoke? Optimistic bias Social pressure
Smoking problems do not apply to me
Social pressure
Friends, parents, siblings smoke
Movies
Tobacco promotional items
Wall poster
Three times more likely to smoke

9. Why do people continue to smoke?
Positive reinforcement
Relaxation
Negative reinforcement
Eliminates effects of withdrawal
Feeling tense, anxious, depressed
Optimistic bias

10. Effects of smoking
Three leading causes of death in US are all smoking related causes of death
About 1/2 of smokers die from the habit

11. Other effects of smoking
Mental disorders
Women
2X risk of cardiovascular disease
10X risk of dying from respiratory disease
Infertility
Preterm delivery
Stillbirth (dead baby)
SIDS
Low birth-weight babies

12. Other effects of smoking
Men
Look older & less attractive
Erectile dysfunction
Social costs
$167 billion each year
Passive smoking kills people
Increased insurance premiums
Lost worker productivity
$7 per pack over the cost to the smoker

13. Quitting smoking Smoking is very addictive
Most who quit, do so on their own
Best results with:
Practitioner support
Counseling
Nicotine replacement therapy
More effective than a placebo

14. The abstinence violation effect
One slip = full relapse

15. Effects of quitting Weight gain Reduced all-cause deaths by 36%
Physical activity helps reduce this
Reduced all-cause deaths by 36%
Smokers must quit, not just cut back