Ch 15 - 1 (ottor) Flashcards
Forms of tobacco
- Cigarettes
- Chewing (spit) tobacco
- Vapes
- Cigars and pipes
- Clove cigarettes and bidis
Chewing (spit) tobacco diseases
- Mouth cancer
- oral cancer
- tooth decay
- gum disease
Lunch cancer is caused by
Cigarettes inhalers
What is in Cigarettes?
- Nicotine (addictive)
- Carcinogens (cause cancer)
- high levels of carbon monoxide
Who are more likely to smoke Cigarettes?
- People who have an positive image about Cigarettes
- Family members that smoke
Smoking short term has acute effects
- raising heart rate
- raising blood pressure
Long term effects of smoking
- Lung cancer
- cardiovascular diseases
Most smokers die of
cardiovascular diseases, not lung cancer
because cardiovascular gets them first
it takes 10 years to reduce
cancer risk by 50% after quitting smoking
Within 20 minutes of your last cigarette
You stop polluting the air.
● Blood pressure drops to normal.
● Pulse rate drops to normal.
● Temperature of hands and feet increases to normal.
8 hours of your last cigarette
Carbon monoxide level in blood drops to normal.
● Oxygen level in blood increases to normal.
24 hours of your last cigarette
The chance of heart attack decreases.
48 hours of your last cigarette
Nerve endings start regrowing.
● Ability to smell and taste is enhanced.
2 weeks to 3 months of your last cigarette
Circulation improves.
● Walking becomes easier.
● Lung function increases up to 30 percent.
1 to 9 months of your last cigarette
Coughing, sinus congestion, fatigue, and shortness of breath all decrease.
1 year of your last cigarette
Heart disease death risk is half that of a smoker.
5 years of your last cigarette
Stroke risk drops nearly to the risk for non-smokers
10 years of your last cigarette
Lung cancer death risk drops to 50 percent of that of a continuing smoker.
● Incidence of other cancers (mouth, throat, larynx, esophagus, bladder, kidney, and pancreas) decreases.
● Risk of ulcer decreases.
15 years of your last cigarette
Risk of lung cancer is about 25 percent of that of continuing smokers.
● Risks of heart disease and death are close to those for non-smokers.
