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