This document discusses the harmful effects of smoking and benefits of quitting. It notes that smoking kills over 5 million people worldwide each year from smoking-related illnesses. The document outlines why people smoke, the harmful health effects like cancer and slowed blood flow, and benefits of quitting like improved breathing and taste. It provides tips for quitting smoking such as setting a date, changing routines, and finding alternatives to smoking.

1. SMOKING
Presenter: Than Anh Huynh

2. Agenda
Why do people smoke?
What you need to know
Harmful health effects of
smoking
What are the benefits of
stopping smoking?
How can you stop smoking?

3. Why do people smoke?
Smoking is fun
Smoking is a reward
Smoking make me look more manly
With a cigarette i am not alone
I like to watch the smoke
Smoking helps me think
Cigarettes help us to relax

4. What you need to know
More than 5.4 million people deaths in the
world each year are from smoking-related
illnesses.
Smoking kills an estimated 40,000 people
each year in VN.
7.5 million surveyed in the United States.
They are regular tobacco users and 65% are
regular cigarette smokers.
90% of all cancer death are caused by lung
cancer that is associated with smoking
cigarettes.

5. What you need to know
• Approximately 80% of adult smokers started
before the age of 18. But every day, nearly
3,000 become smokers.
• This is estimated that 5 million of our young
adults will die prematurely because they
made the decision to smoke cigarettes.
• Smoking does not only kill yourself, but in fact
it kills the loved ones around you as well.
Every year, 52,000 non-smokers die from
inhaling second-hand smoke.

6. What you need to know
• There are 4,000 identified chemicals found in
cigarette smoke. 109 of those chemicals are
proven cause cancer, and 10 of them are
identified to cause birth defects.
• The three most health-damaging chemicals in
tobacco smoke are nicotine, tar, and carbon
monoxide.
• One pure ounce of nicotine can paralyze and slow
the nervous system of an adult man so quickly, he
could die within three minutes.

7. Harmful health effects of smoking
 One in two lifetime smokers will die from their
habit. Half of these deaths will occur in middle age.
 Tobacco smoke contributes to a number of cancers
for example lung, stomach, mouth, throat, nose
cancer …
 It slows your blood flow, cutting off oxygen to your
feet and hands.
 Air pollution increases the lung cancer rate of the
smoker, but not of the non-smoker.
 Smokers are sick more often.

9. What are the benefits of
stopping smoking?
Breathing improves.
Chest infections and colds become less
frequent.
Reduction in 'smoker's cough'.
The smell of tobacco goes from your breath,
clothes, hair, and face.
Foods and drinks taste and smell much better.
Finances improve.
You are likely to feel good about yourself.

10. How can you stop smoking?
 Set a date for quitting. If possible, have a friend quit
smoking with you.
 Notice when and why you smoke. Try to find the
things in your daily life that you often do while
smoking.
 Change your smoking routines.
 Smoke only in certain places.
 Try to think of something to do instead of smoking
such as chew gum or drink a glass of water.
 Switch to a brand of cigarettes you don't like.

11. Keep trying
Many ex-smokers did not succeed at
first, but they kept trying. The first few
days after stopping will probably be the
hardest. Show yourself and to the
others who you are. Life's too good and
too short to waste on that filthy habit.