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BAD CIGARETTES RUIN LIVES SMOKING AND HEALTH SRIMAHASARAKHAM NURSING COLLEGE DO YOU KNOW? The most serious damage smoking causes in your mouth and throat is an increased risk of cancer in your lips, tongue, throat, voice box and gullet (oesophagus). CHONTHICHA PHONGPHANNA 63113301020 CHONLADA THOSING. 63113301022 NISAKORN BUAMAT 63113301050 SUDAWADEE SRIBUNLAD 63113301107 SECOND YEARS STUDENT

SMOKING 01 HOW DOES SMOKING HANA0DELTH2HOW ARE HEALTH PROBLEMS FROM TOBACCO DIAGNOSED? 03AFFECT YOUR BODY? 0064HOW CAN I QUIT SMOKING? CIGARETTE KILLS LIFE (CASE STUDY) IS SMOKING BAD FOR YOUR HEALTH? 05 IF I HAVE BEEN SMOKING FOR A WHILE, IS IT TOO LATE TO QUIT?

HOW The damage caused by smoking DOES can shorten your lifespan SMOKING significantly. In fact, smoking is AFFECT the number one cause of YOUR preventable death in the United BODY? States. Pregnant women who smoke put SMOKING their unborn babies at risk, too. Possible effects on pregnancy Tobacco has been around for include: centuries, but what we know about the health damage from Ectopic pregnancy, a life- smoking is much newer. For threatening condition when the example, smokers tend to die embryo implants outside the uterus. more than 10 years earlier than Miscarriages. people who don’t smoke. You Stillbirths. can improve your health by Birth defects, such as cleft palate. choosing to quit smoking. Low birth weight. obacco use harms every organ in your body. Smoking tobacco BAD CIGARETTES RUIN LIVES. /1 introduces not only nicotine but also more than 5,000 chemicals, including numerous carcinogens (cancer-causing chemicals), into your lungs, blood and organs.

HOW ARE HEALTH PROBLEMS FROM TOBACCO DIAGNOSED? Diagnosis depends on your specific HOW DOES CHEWING symptoms. For example, a smokeless TOBACCO AFFECT tobacco user who develops stomach YOUR HEALTH? cancer from swallowing juice with nicotine in it will need different tests Smokeless tobacco can cause than a person who inhales smoke. nicotine addiction. People who If you smoke, your healthcare use chewing tobacco may provider will ask for details about your develop cancers of the mouth, tobacco use, physically examine you esophagus and pancreas. And and sometimes order tests (like an X- chewing tobacco causes gum ray to check for organ damage or an disease, tooth decay and tooth electrocardiogram and other heart- loss. related tests). https://pixabay.com/th/photos/ BAD CIGARETTES RUIN LIVES. /2

IS SMOKING BAD FOR WHAT OTHER CONDITIONS MAY BE YOUR HEALTH? CAUSED OR WORSENED BY TOBACCO? since at least the 1950s, In addition to its Lower oxygen to the health experts have known cancer risks, heart and other linked smoking to lung smoking causes many tissues in the body cancer. Research other chronic (long- (increasing risks for continues to pinpoint term) health problems coronary artery more ways tobacco that need ongoing disease, peripheral harms your health, from care. Specific artery disease, and cancers to chronic (long- smoking-related diabetes). term) diseases. problems that need More frequent routine Experts estimate that 16 treatment include: illnesses like colds, million Americans live especially in children with a disease caused by Decreased HDL living with smokers. smoking. Every year, (good) cholesterol Poorer lung function roughly 480,000 people and increased blood (ability to get enough die from smoking-related pressure (increasing oxygen) leading to diseases. That means that risks for heart attack COPD, asthma, for every person who and stroke). bronchitis, or dies from smoking, at Erectile dysfunction. emphysema. least 30 others live with a serious smoking-related illness. BAD CIGARETTES RUIN LIVES. /3

When the cravings hit, don’t focus on them. HOW CAN Cravings are temporary, so focus on why I QUIT you want to quit instead. SMOKING? Keep yourself busy and find things to do with your hands — doodling or playing with There are many different ways to a pencil or straw. Change any activities quit smoking. To succeed, you have connected to smoking, too. Take a walk or to find a smoking cessation plan that read a book instead of taking a cigarette works for your personality. You need break. to be ready emotionally and mentally. When you get the urge to smoke, take a You should want to quit smoking for deep breath. Hold it for ten seconds and yourself and not just for family or release it slowly. Repeat this several times friends exposed to your secondhand until the urge to smoke is gone. You can smoke. also try meditation to reduce baseline When you decide to quit, these stress levels. pointers can help: Avoid places, people and situations you associate with smoking. Hang out with Get rid of all cigarettes and anything nonsmokers or go places that don't allow related to smoking, like lighters and smoking (like movies, museums, shops or ashtrays. libraries). Live with another smoker? Ask them Don't substitute food or sugar-based not to smoke near you or convince products for cigarettes. These can cause them to quit with you. weight gain. Instead, choose low-calorie, healthy foods. Try carrot or celery sticks, sugar-free hard candies or gum. Drink plenty of fluids, but limit alcoholic and caffeinated beverages. They can trigger urges to smoke. Remind yourself that you are a nonsmoker, and you don't smoke. Don’t forget to exercise, because it has health benefits and help you relax. BAD CIGARETTES RUIN LIVES. /4

IF I HAVE BEEN SMOKING FOR A WHILE, IS IT TOO LATE TO QUIT? Smoking cessation, at any age, will improve your health. Years of smoking damage can reverse with time. When you quit, benefits happen almost immediately: After 20 minutes, your blood pressure and heart rate drop, and the temperature of your hands and feet increases. Plus, you stop polluting the air. After eight hours, your blood will contain lower levels of carbon monoxide and higher levels of oxygen. After 24 hours, your heart attack risk decreases. After 48 hours, your nerve endings adjust to the absence of nicotine, and you begin to regain your ability to taste and smell. After two weeks to three months, your circulation improves, and you can tolerate more exercise. After one to nine months, your overall energy level increases, and you cough less. Plus, sinus congestion, fatigue and shortness of breath decrease. After one year, your risk of heart disease cuts in half compared to a current smoker. After five to 15 years, your risk of stroke lowers to that of people who never smoked. After 10 years, your risk of dying from lung cancer drops to almost the same rate as a lifelong nonsmoker. Plus, you decrease the risk of other cancers. After 15 years, your risk of heart disease finally reaches that of people who never smoked. BAD CIGARETTES RUIN LIVES. /5

CIGARETTE KILLS LIFE Git, a 39-year-old man with stress and depression, came up with a way to relieve stress by turning to smoking as a result of seeing his father smoking in his younger days. At the age of 27, Git started having an unusual illness, so he went to the hospital for a checkup and found himself suffering from lung cancer and heart disease and also had a bad effect on other organs, the cause of which was due to smoking. Knowing that he might not have much time left to spend the rest of his life, Git tried to quit smoking and spent this precious time back to his long- divorced ex-wife and son. Since she couldn't stand her husband's addiction, Git tried to beg to see his child again and promised to quit smoking without telling his wife and son. For four weeks, Git had to face a severe craving for berry, irritating, anxious, insomnia and headache. Git made great efforts to get through those times. When he successfully stopped, he recalled the old days of his childhood, his sick father, died of cigarette poisoning, his mother who had not smoked but had pneumonia due to his father's infection before his death. Finally, Git suffered from severe stress and depression, turning to cigarettes like his father at the age of 14. Thinking of those days, Git thought he didn't want his son to come to what he had to go through in his final moments. After that, he tried to take care of his health to last as long as possible before dying in time, followed by cancer at the age of 44. BAD CIGARETTES RUIN LIVES. /6

CURRENT AND FORMER SMOKERS MAY BE AT HIGHER RISK. STOP NOW, BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE. Thank you CHONTHICHA PHONGPHANNA 63113301020 CHONLADA THOSING 63113301022 NISAKORN BUAMAT 63113301050 SUDAWADEE SRIBUNLAD 63113301107 second year students https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/articles/17488-smoking