Chapter 12 "SMOKING"
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What is the impact on smoking
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More deaths than AIDS, alcohol, drug abuse, car crashes, murderers, suicides, and fires combined.
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When people start getting addicted
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Could be a couple of days or after just a few cigarettes
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Smoking and other mental disorders
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Percentage of smoking goes up with people who abuse other drugs or are mentally not \"there\"
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Why do college students smoke?
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managing depression and stress
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Social smokers
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They tend to be less motivated to quit and make fewer attempts to do so. They end up smoking more than intended.
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Cigars
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Has declined overall in the past few years, but college students are using them more. Cigars and pipes are not healthier than cigarettes.
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Pipes
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Many cigarette users switch to pipes to reduce their health risks. Pipes cause more respiratory problems and die or cancer of the mouth,throat, ect. But won't die as often from heart attacks.
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Bidis
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Become smoking fad among teens and young adults. Available in flavors. Contain less tobacco than cigarettes but their unprocessed tobacco is more potent. About 3x more nicotine than cigarettes.
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Clove Cigarettes
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Cloves, an ingredient that is added to the recipe for cigarettes. Primarily teens and young adults. 2/3 tobacco and 1/3 clove. People think cove cigarettes are better, but they are not. Can have serious lung injury. Deliver twice as much nicotine.
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Smokeless tabacco
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Causes users heart rate, blood pressure, epinephrine levels to jump. Just as hooked on the nicotine as cigarettes, or more.
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Men vs Women
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Women get more hooked than men on cigarettes.
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Combining quitting methods
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Using counseling and medication together are better than just one alone.
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True or False
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Former smokers who start smoking again put their lungs at greater jeopardy than smokers who never quit.
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Attempting of quitting
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More likely to quit in the third, fourth, or fifth attempt.
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What is the most successful form of quitting?
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Quitting on your own. They see themselves as active participants in health maintenance.
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How companies can help
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Companies can have incentives and may help with motivation.
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Aversion therapy
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A negative experience every time a smoker has a cigarette.
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Nasal spray nicotine replacement
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Delivers nicotine to the nasal membrane and reaches the bloodstream faster than any other nicotine replacement therapy.
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Men and women nicotine replacement
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Works better for men and men
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Nicotine gum
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Can have some side effects and has a weird taste.
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Those most likely to benefit from nicotine patches
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Who smoke more than a pack a day, highly motivated to quit, and participate in counseling programs.
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What if you have the patch and you are smoking?
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Have a nicotine overdoes and could have a heart attack.
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Nicotine inhaler
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Contains the nicotine in smaller amounts, and does not have the tar or other harmful substances like the cigarettes.
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Second hand smoke
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The most hazardous form of indoor air pollution. Ranks behind cigarette smoking and alcohol as the third-leading preventable cause of death.
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Mainstream smoke
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What the smoker inhales with the cigarette
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Sidestream smoke
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The smoke from the burning of the 12 minute the cigarette smokes. Everyone in the room, including the smokers. This smoke as twice as much tar and nicotine.
