Dangerous Stuff
What is the sticky gooey material that covers your lungs and makes your blood thick?
Tar
90% of people with this disease were smokers at some point
Lung Cancer
Most smokers start in their teens, and ___% of teen smokers become addicted.
What is 90%
This method of quitting smoking is sometimes called "cold turkey."
What is stopping suddenly with no medication or NRTs.
20 minutes after quitting smoking, these two things return to normal
What is heart rate and blood pressure
What is the poisonous gas found in the smoke?
Carbon Monoxide
This happens to your teeth, fingers, and clothes when you smoke.
What is staining?
The physical and psychological cravings people have when they quit a drug is known as this.
Withdraw
A small, candy like supplement, used to aid in smoking cessation or cigarette substitute.
What is a nicotine lozenge?
24 hours after a person stops smoking their chance of having what decreases?
A heart attack
What is the addictive substance in all tobacco products?
Nicotine
This is a severe consequence for using smokeless tobacco (also known as "chew").
What is mouth cancer?
Nicotine has many effects on the body, particularly the heart and hormonal system however nicotine's most important effects are on the....?
The brain
Wht is the proper way to use nicotine gum?
Chew until you start to sense tingling/peppery flavor and park in your cheek/gum. When that goes away about 1 minute, chew again and park until the tingling no longer occurs. About 30 minutes.
If you smoked one pack of cigarettes a day, and they cost $10.00 a pack how much money would you save in a year if you quit?
$3650
Which is has higher concentrations of poison, the smoke inhaled by the smoker or the secondhand smoke
Second hand smoke
This is a condition when the passages of the lungs become swollen and irritated, eventually losing their function.
What is COPD (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease)
Once nicotine is distributed in the brain, it binds to millions of receptors and changes nerve cell activity causing the release of many other neurotransmitters that have a wide variety of effects. Name three of these effects.
Pleasure, arousal, Tension reduction, appetite suppression, cognitive enhancement, memory improvement, anxiety reduction, mood modulation.
This method of quitting uses products that gradually reduce the amount of nicotine used.
What is Nicotine Replacement Therapy (NRT)
This risk is cut in half after 1 year of quitting.
What is heart disease death rate
Formaldehyde is one of these
What is one of the other poisonous chemicals added to the tobacco in cigarettes?
Tar and carbon monoxide combine to create this condition for your circulatory system.
Heart Disease
Most nicotine withdraw symptoms pass after this amount of time.
What is 2-4 weeks
What are the two non NRT medications approved by the FDA to assist in smoking cessation?
Chantix and Wellbutrin
After a person quits smoking how long does it take for the lung cancer death rate return to almost that of a non-smokers?
10 years