Smoking Cessation Flashcards
Why do urban birds line their nests with cigarette butts?
Nicotine is a powerful insecticide that wards off mites, lice and fleas
What is in a cigarette?
- Highly engineered products
- Tobacco
- Filter
- Filler
- Additives
- Paper
- Smoke
How many chemicals and carcinogens does cigarette smoke contain?
- > 4,000 chemicals
- >40 known carcinogens
Give examples of chemicals found in cigarettes.
- Nicotine
- Tar
- Carbon monoxide
- Acetone
- Arsenic
- Cadmium
- Hydrogen cyanide
How many people die each year due to the effects of smoking?
- In Scotland 13,000
- In the UK 120,000
How many years of life is lost to smoking approximately?
7.5 years
What cancers have a relative risk associated with smoking?
- Upper respiratory
- Lung
- Oesophagus
- Bladder
- Kidney
- Pancreas
What other systems does smoking affect?
- Endocrine
- Dermatological
- Ophthalmology
- Locomotor
- Cardiovascular
- Gastroenterology
What other illnesses are associated with smoking?
- Type II diabetes mellitus
- Psoriasis
- Macular degeneration
- Osteoporosis
- Peptic ulceration
- Crohn’s disease
What conditions does smoking decrease your chance of developing?
- Ulcerative colitis
- Carcinoma of the uterus
- Parkinsonism
- Sarcoidosis
- Hypersensitivity pneumonitis
What age group has the most smokers?
25 to 34
What areas of deprivation are most likely to smoke?
- Permanently sick or disabled
- unemployed and seeking work
- Looking after home/family
How do e-cigarettes work?
Use battery power to vaporise a solution of nicotine in propylene glycol/ polyethylene glycol
How does the nicotine hit of an e-cigarette compare to a traditional cigarette?
25-50% of a tradition cigarette
Why might e-cigarettes be considered safer than cigarettes?
Lacks 250 poisons/ 69 carcinogens
Which females are more likely to smoke when pregnant?
- Younger
- Single
- Lower educational achievement
- Unskilled
- Male partner more likely to smoke
What are the risks of smoking while pregnant?
Increases risk of miscarriage, stillbirth and neonatal death by 1/3
What is second hand smoking often responsible for in children?
- Respiratory infections
- Bronchitis
- Bronchiolitis
- Pneumonia
- Cot death
- Middle ear infection
What are the health benefits of smoking cessation?
- Increases life expectancy by 7.5 years
- Risk of MI is reduced by 50% after 1 year
- Risk of MI after 15 years is the same as a lifelong non smoker
- Risk of lung cancer is only slightly increased after 10-15 years
What strategies have been put in place for the protection of children?
- Cannot sell tobacco products to anyone under 18
- Cannot smoke in private vehicle with kids in it
- Cannot purchase by proxy
- Removal of vending machines
- Standardised packaging
What are examples of the exemptions to the smoking in public place band?
- Hotels and guest host bedrooms
- Designated rooms in care homes, hospices and prisons
- Private homes
- Places not ‘substantially enclosed’
- Actors
- Specialist tobacco shops
