Your Body
Stays in your body for about three to four days
What is nicotine or its by-products?
Your risk of heart disease is like you never smoked
What is the effect of quitting smoking for 15 years?
Medicines that help decrease or stop a smoker’s withdrawal symptoms by giving controlled doses of nicotine without the other harmful chemicals of cigarette smoke (Gum, patch, lozenge, nasal spray, inhaler)
What is Nicotine Replacement Therapy (NRT)?
Smoking accounts for about ____% of all cancer deaths in the United States
What is 30%?
Keeping active by walking, exercising, or doing other activities or hobbies. Drinking lots of water and juices. Avoiding situations where the urge to smoke is strong. Reducing/avoiding alcohol. Changing your routine by using a different route to go to work or drinking/eating different things in different locations.
What are methods to maintain not smoking?
Smoking has damaging effects on how you look
What is premature wrinkling of skin, gum disease, and tooth loss?
Your heart rate and blood pressure drop
What happens 20 minutes after smoking?
Free cessation service offering 8 weeks of Nicotine Replacement Therapy as well as Quit Coaching
What is 1-800-QUIT-NOW or QuitlineNC.com?
Smokers are _____ as likely to die from heart attacks as non-smokers.
What is twice?
Getting rid of all the cigarettes and ashtrays in your home, car, and workplace. Stocking up on oral substitutes – sugarless gum, carrot sticks, hardcandy, cinnamon sticks, coffee stirrers, straws, or toothpicks.
What are methods to maintain not smoking?
When you inhale smoke, nicotine is carried deep into your lungs. There it is absorbed quickly into the bloodstream and carried throughout your body. Nicotine affects your...
What is DNA, heart, blood vessels, hormones, metabolism, lungs, and brain?
Your breath smells better, food tastes better, your sense of smell returns to normal, and your teeth are whiter
What is the immediate effects of quitting smoking?
Smoking fewer cigarettes each day. Some people find it helpful to cut down on their tobacco use before they quit. To ensure success, try to use the smallest possible number of cigarettes each day, but no fewer than 10, this can make it harder to quit.
What is tapering?
Smoking causes about ___ out of ___ deaths in the US.
What is 1 out of 5 (20%)?
They can provide encouragement, distraction, humor, and warmth when you need it most. Many people find it very helpful to have one or more close friends or family members involved in their quitting process
What is a support system?
When you smoke, your ability to breathe
What is much harder and lowers your ability to exercise as well as do everyday activities?
Quitting smoking a pack of cigarettes a day for a year will you save you...
What is about $2,217.60?
Lessens the pleasurable effects a person gets from smoking and reduces the symptoms of nicotine withdrawal (Pill)
What is Varenicline (Zyban)?
On average, it takes at least ____ to ____ quit attempts before a person successfully quits for good
What is five to seven?
Breathe deeply as you would inhale smoke, then picture your lungs filling with clean air
What is relaxation technique for stress management?
Smoking affects your blood by...
What is raising blood pressure, higher chance of blood clots, and decreases HDL (good) cholesterol levels in the blood?
People who stop smoking before age 50 cut their risk of dying in the next 15 years...
What is in half, compared to those who keep smoking?
It acts on chemicals in the brain to reduce the symptoms of nicotine withdrawal. Does not contain nicotine (Pill)
What is Bupropion (Chantix)?
Drug found naturally in tobacco that is highly addictive as heroin or cocaine and makes a person become physically and emotionally dependent on it
What is nicotine?
Activity that plans in advance what you will do when faced with a situation where you might be tempted to smoke. By planning ahead, you will not be caught off guard if you have a strong urge to smoke.
What is mental rehearsal?