This is an informative presentation, providing an introduction to smoking cessation. Included: photos of smoking vs. non-smoking twins, healthy / disease free lungs vs. a smoker's lungs, video clips on the effects of smoking, including unseen dangers of smoking. Click on various images throughout the presentation for links to videos and websites. For more information on quitting smoking, please visit www.lung.org, or www.smokefree.gov.

1. SMOKING CESSATION
The Odds Are in Your Favor
Presented by Michael Taylor S.N.

2.  Define smoking cessation as it pertains to your health
 Explain the dangers of smoking and it’s impact on health
 Describe the hidden truths behind the smoking industry
 Discuss alternatives to smoking
 Apply coping strategies while quitting smoking
OBJECTIVES

3.  Nicotine in tobacco products
dependence.
 Smoking
produces
cessation is important
for both the
prevention, as well as, the treatment of disease.
 Smoking
cessation greatly reduces
premature death.
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the risk for disease and

4. 
One in five deaths in the U.S. can be credited to tobacco,
according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control – a statistic that
makes it clear:
Smoking is a huge health problem.
SMOKING CESSATION

5. 443,000

Smoking-related diseases claim an estimated
American lives each year

Cigarette smoke contains over
which are known to cause cancer.

Smoking is directly responsible for approximately
4,800 chemicals, 69 of
90 percent of
lung cancer deaths and approximately 80-90 percent of
COPD (emphysema and chronic bronchitis) deaths
SMOKING CESSATION

6. THE BEAUTY OF SMOKING

7. 
Smoking causes chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
(COPD), coronary heart disease, stroke, abdominal
aortic aneurysm, acute myeloid leukemia, cataract,
pneumonia, periodontitis, and bladder, esophageal, laryngeal,
lung, oral, throat, cervical, kidney, stomach, and pancreatic
cancers.

Smoking is a major factor in slowed
healing of wounds,
infertility, and peptic ulcer disease.
SMOKING CESSATION

8. Every 15 cigarettes you smoke will cause a mutation
that can lead to cancer
SMOKING MUTATION

9. 
Smoking kills half of those who smoke
die 13 – 15 years younger than non-

Smokers
smokers

The cigarette burns at 1,300˚F at the tip and the smoke inhaled is

Your heart
about 140˚F
beats an extra 10 – 25 times per minute, that
adds up to an


extra 36,000
times each day
Your body has less oxygen available and the heart has to
work harder to meet the body’s need
Smoking damages the blood itself, staying
six hours after each cigarette
WHEN YOU SMOKE
in the blood for

10. 


Smoking is making a lot of money for someone else who
probably doesn’t smoke.
There are companies that try to entice you to purchase
tobacco products.
These products are known to cause major illness and
ultimately lead to your own premature death
THE BUSINESS OF BIG TOBACCO

11. 
FACT:
Big Tobacco’s products kill
137 people from

FACT:
Methane, found in

FACT:
To boost cigarette sales a tobacco company targeted gay and
homeless people. They called their plan

FACT:
One tobacco company called younger adult smokers
“replacement smokers.” You know, because half of their older
adult smokers end up dead.

FACT:
secondhand smoke everyday.
dog poop, is also found in cigarette smoke.
Project S.C.U.M.
Big tobacco described one type of
woman by saying she,
“lacks control,” “feels vulnerable,” and is
”mainly negative.”
THE BUSINESS OF SMOKING

12. 
good news: today America has more former smokers
than current smokers, and more than half of current smokers say
they want to quit
OPENING A NEW CHAPTER

13. 
20 Minutes After Quitting:
Your heart

rate drops to a normal level.
12 Hours After Quitting:
The carbon

monoxide level in your blood drops to normal.
2 Weeks to 3 Months After Quitting:
Your risk of having a heart
Your lung
attack begins to drop.
function begins to improve.
THE BENEFITS

14. 
1 to 9 Months After Quitting:
Your coughing and shortness

of breath decrease.
1 Year After Quitting:
Your added risk of coronary heart
smoker's.
MORE BENEFITS
disease is half that of a

15. 
5 to 15 Years After Quitting:
Your risk of having a stroke is reduced to that of a nonsmoker's.
Your risk of getting cancer
half that of a smoker's.
of the mouth, throat, or esophagus is
Your risk of dying from lung
cancer is about half that of a smoker's.
Your risk of getting bladder
cancer is half that of a smoker's.
Your risk of getting cervical
pancreas decreases.
cancer or cancer of the larynx, kidney or
Your risk of coronary heart
nonsmoker.
disease is the same as that of a
AND THEY KEEP ON GOING

16.  quitting
smoking is the single most important step a
smoker can take to improve the

length and quality of life.
As soon as you quit, your body begins to repair the
damage caused by smoking.

After you quit, your sense of taste and smell return.
MOTIVATION

17. 
A pack of cigarettes can cost $10.00. Even if a pack costs "only" $5.00 where
you live, smoking one pack per day adds up to $1,825.00

It's getting less
 It's
convenient to smoke.
good for the people around you
MOTIVATION
each year.

18. 

Stopping smoking can be tough but smokers don’t have to
quit alone.
Three smoking cessation products approved in the U.S.:

nicotine-replacement therapies such as patches, gums and
inhalers

Wellbutrin - reduce nicotine cravings

Chantix - reduces cravings for and decreases the pleasurable
effects of cigarettes
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I’M FEELIN’ A GOOD CESSATION
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19. SUPPORT

20. 
Set a
date to quit.
 Tell the people around you that you are quitting.
 Throw away your cigarettes,
haven't already
lighters, and ash trays if you
alternatives to smoking.

Find

Use available resources
MAKE A PLAN

21. If you can stop smoking for 28 days, you are five
more likely to stop for good.
times
THE ODDS ARE IN YOUR FAVOR

22.  Get
out of the house

Go to dinner or a movie

Chew gum or hard candy

Keep your hands busy with a pen or toothpick
 Relax with deep breathing

Plan a game night with non-smoking friends
 Change your regular routine

Drink a lot of water
 Exercise
STAY BUSY!

23.  Alpha-1
antitrypsin deficiency, or alpha-1, is a genetic condition
that runs in certain families and often affects the lungs and liver.

Alpha-1 antitrypsin protects lung tissue from damage caused by
neutrophil elastase, a substance released by white blood cells during
infection or inflammation. Without enough alpha-1 antitrypsin,
neutrophil elastase is free to destroy air sac tissue.
 Smoking worsens the damage, because cigarette smoke
weakens the ability of alpha-1 antitrypsin to protect lung tissue.
ALPHA-1 DEFICIENCY AND SMOKING

24. 
The most common signs of lung disease in people with Alpha-1:

Shortness of breath

Wheezing

Chronic cough and sputum (phlegm) production (chronic
bronchitis)

Recurring chest colds or pneumonia

Low tolerance for exercise

Non-responsive asthma or year-round allergies

Bronchiectasis
THE SYMPTOMS

25. 
Early diagnosis of Alpha-1 is very important because quitting
smoking and early treatment are both essential to help slow
the progression of Alpha-1 lung disease.

Alpha-1 Antitrypsin Deficiency can’t be diagnosed by symptoms or
by a medical examination alone; you need to get a
to know for sure.
ALPHA-1 TESTING IS EASY
blood test

26. SMOKING KILLS (THE BRYAN CURTIS STORY)

27. 
2012 - Stoptober - Week four. (2012). Retrieved from
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MG3ulOEr4SE&list=TLT-U7wKpKMkgHhCtoe2PCQ1XrdYgqjDt3
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2012 Smokefree homes and cars - 'Car'. (2012). Retrieved from
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08P68EweUv8&list=TLT-U7wKpKMkgHhCtoe2PCQ1XrdYgqjDt3
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2013 - 'Mutation' health harms campaign - 40s ad. (2013). Retrieved from
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9NTmAFQvfs&list=TLT-U7wKpKMkgHhCtoe2PCQ1XrdYgqjDt3
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Cleveland Clinic. (n.d.). Retrieved from
http://my.clevelandclinic.org/disorders/alpha1_antitrypsin_deficiency/pul_overview.aspx
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Freedom From Smoking - American Lung Association. (n.d.). Retrieved from
http://www.lung.org/stop-smoking/how-to-quit/freedom-from-smoking/
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Giddens, J. (2013). Concepts for nursing practice. St. Louis, Mo: Mosby/Elsevier.
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Proven methods to quit smoking | Evidence Based Living. (n.d.). Retrieved from
http://evidencebasedliving.human.cornell.edu/2013/07/02/proven-methods-to-quit-smoking/
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Smokers in their 30s have facial wrinkles similar to those of nonsmokers in their 50s. (2011, July 5). Retrieved from
http://www.muvazi.com/Smokers-in-their-30s-have-facial-wrinkles-similar-to-those-of-nonsmokers-in-their-50s_b_22.html]
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Smoking Documentary - The Truth About Smoking Tobacco and Why People Smoke? (n.d.). Retrieved from
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thLHLQezDEU
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Smoking Kills (The Bryan Curtis story). (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVLtNgAhPRg
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truth®. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.thetruth.com/
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Who should be tested for Alpha-1, free testing, alpha-1 coded testing study | Alpha-1 Foundation | Alpha 1 Antitrypsin
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Why smoking tobacco is so bad for your health. (n.d.). Retrieved from
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