This document discusses the health effects of smoking. It notes that cigarettes contain over 4,000 chemicals, including 50 known carcinogens. Smoking hurts the lungs, causes coughing and fatigue, and affects taste and smell. It is linked to higher risks of heart attack, stroke, and lung cancer. Smoking impacts every part of the body, including hair, brain, eyes, mouth, skin and ability to breathe. The document provides statistics on smoking rates in Bangladesh and lists reasons to quit like health, cost, and influence of family and friends. It outlines plans and tools available to help quit smoking, such as nicotine patches, gum, or phone support programs. The overall message is that quitting smoking is important for health

1. WELCOME

4. Smoking refers to the inhalation and exhalation of
fumes from burning tobacco in cigars, cigarettes and
pipes.
What is smoking?

5. So, What’s in a cigarette?
4000 Chemicals
50 of those chemicals are
known to cause cancer.

6. How Does Smoking Hurt Us?

7. Makes you cough!

8. Makes you tired!

9. Affects your sense of taste and smell.

10. It makes your breath and clothes smell bad!

11. The people who are smokers, these people are high risk
of heart attack and stoke.

12. Bad Lung Good Lung
It’s not good for your lungs!

13. The Health Effects!
Affects EVERY part of your body
 Hair
 Brain
 Eyes
 Mouth – breath and teeth
 Yellow skin and wrinkles
 Difficulty in breathing
 Serious Diseases

14. Smoking prevalence; females
(% of adults) in Bangladesh
Source: http://www.tradingeconomics.com

15. Smoking prevalence; males
(% of adults) in Bangladesh
Source: http://www.tradingeconomics.com

16. Reasons to Quit
 Health
 Stinks, bad breath, yellow
skin
 Family/Friends
 Too much money!
 Peer pressure (fewer smokers)
 Fewer places to smoke
 Don’t like it anymore
 sick of it
 Others…

17. So how do I quit?
 Form a plan – decide on the best
approach for you.
 Two ways to quit
1. All at once
2. Cutting back
 Based on the way you want
to quit there are a lot of tools
out there to help you.

18. Programs & Supports
 Patch and Gum
 Nicotine Inhaler
 Smokers’ Helpline
 Internet Resources
 Teacher,
 School Counselor,
 Nurse, Doctor,
 Friend/Family
Programs
Supports

21. … when you can’t breathe
nothing else matters!

22. So, Saying “NO” to Smoking.