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Smoking And Health

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. Respiratory System/Brain.

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Smoking And Health

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  1. 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.

  2. Respiratory System/Brain Nicotine takes 7 seconds to reach Brain

  3. 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

  4. 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)

  5. 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.

  6. 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

  7. 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

  8. 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’

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