HACC Health Chapter 14

Carbon monoxide levels in smoke is...

400 times the limit considered safe

Tobacco contains how many compounds and chemicals

7,000

How fast does nicotine spread to your nervous system

8 seconds

Factors linked to smoking

Age, less education, adolescent rebellion, stress, parents, addiction, genetics, weight control, mental disorders

Tobacco control recommendations from American college health association recommendations

Ban all forms of tobacco on college campuses

What happens to the lungs with nicotine

Bloodstream abosorbs it

Health effects of secondhand smoke for children

Brain tumors, growth impaired, behavior problems, ability defects

Health effects of secondhand smoke for women

Breast cancer

Smoking risks for women

Breast cancer, osteoporosis, early menopause, lung cancer, risk with oral contraceptives, miscarriage, pregnancy difficulties, birth defects

Long term effects of hookahs

Bronchitis, emphysema, gum disease, increase risk of cancer, osteoporosis, artery disease

Forms of tobacco

Cigars, pipes, bidis, clove cigarettes, smokeless tobacco, snus

Smoking less than a pack of cigarettes per week does what to your health

Damages lining of blood vessels and increases risk of heart disease and cancer

Carbon monoxide is like

Deadly gas that comes out of exhaust pipes of cars

Other risks of vaping

Headache, cough, dizzy, sore throat, nose bleeds, chest pain

Tar and carbon monoxide increase the risk of

Heart attacks and strokes

Health effects of secondhand smoke for everyone

Heart disease, asthma, cancers, Alzheimer's

What happens to the heart with nicotine

Heartbeat quickens

Tar and carbon monoxide interferes with the ability of

Hemoglobin in blood to carry oxygen

Physical benefits within a few weeks of quitting

Improvements in coughing and respiratory symptoms

Short term effects of hookahs

Increased heart rate, increased blood pressure, impaired lungs, carbon monoxide intoxication

Pregnancy and occasional smoking causes

Increased risk of giving birth to unhealthy babies

Birth control pills and smoking causes

Increased risk of heart disease, blood clots, stroke, liver cancer, and gallbladder disease

Snus leads to

Less cancer risk

Psychological benefits of quitting

Less likely to have alcohol or drug problems and less anxiety or depression

Smokeless tobacco leads to

Lip and other cancers

Cigars lead to

Lung and digestive cancer

Many social smokers end up smoking...

More cigarettes for many more years than intended

What bans on campuses have been made

More than 1,300 schools have smoke free/ tobacco free policies Some schools have designated smoking areas

Primary active ingrediant in tobacco

Nicotine

Third hand smoke is

Nicotine residue left behind in furniture, walls, carpet in room

Approaches to quit smoking

On own, virtual support, groups, therapy, medication, hypnosis

Tar contains

Poisonous and cancer causing chemicals

what causes an increase in smoking rates among populations

Poor, mentally ill, drug or alcohol abuse, disabled, lgbt

Tobacco use disorder

Problematic tobacco use, causes distress

Smoking risks for men

Prostate cancer, erectile dysfunction, arthritis, lung cancer

Social smokers are less motivated to...

Quit smoking than those with tobacco use disorder

Risk of heart disease within one year of quitting

Reduces by half

Pipes lead to

Respiratory problems and cancer

Risk of lung cancer after quitting

Risk fades more slowly, lung cells DNA are permanently damaged

Risk of heart disease after 15 years of quitting

Risk is close to that off people who've never smoked

Physical Improvements after 15 years of quitting

Risk of cancers drops to that of someone's who never smokes

Vaping can lead to

Serious lung disease like emphysema

When the tar in tobacco is smoked it...

Settled in bronchial tubes where cancer can occur

Social smokers

Smoke in company of others (less cigarettes, less dependent)

What happens to the brain with nicotine

Stimulates nervous system, triggers release of tranquilizing morphine

Vaping usage with young users may have harmful effects on

The developing brain and respiratory system

Environmental second hand smoke is

The most hazardous from of indoor air pollution and is the third leading preventable cause of death

Non smokers bill of rights

The right to breath clean air, the right to speak out, the right to act

Bidis contain

Three times as much nicotine and carbon monoxide and five times as much tar as cigarettes

Clove cirarettes contain

Twice the nicotine, Eugenol (hold smoke in lungs longer)

What happens to blood vessels with nicotine

Vessels constrict, higher blood pressure

smoking rates are lowest amount these races

asians and hispanics

how many men and women currently smoke?

forty two million

smoking rates are highest with these groups

native americans, Alaska natives, African American, southeast Asian, white college students