By Maria Leticia Zarazua Hernandez

What is Tobacco?
• Tobacco is the #1 cause of death in US.
• Nicotine-the addictive drug found in
tobacco leaves.
– Is classified as a stimulant.
• Raises blood pressure, heart rate,
contributes to heart disease and stroke.
• Anyone who starts smoking is at risk of
becoming addicted to nicotine.
 Kinds of tobacco!!!
• Chewing tobacco refers to a form of smokeless
tobacco furnished as long strands of whole leaves and
consumed by placing a portion of the tobacco between
the cheek and gum or teeth and chewing. Unwanted
juices are then expectorated.
• Historically, chewing tobacco was the most prevalent
form of tobacco use in the United States until it was
overtaken by cigarette smoking in the early 20th
Century.
• Smokeless Tobacco may refer to:
– Dipping tobacco, a type of tobacco that is placed between the lower or
upper lip and gums.
– Chewing tobacco, a type of tobacco that is chewed.
– Snuff, a type of tobacco that is inhaled or "snuffed" through the nose.
– Creamy snuff, a fluid tobacco mixture marketed as a
dental hygiene aid, albeit used for recreation
– Tobacco gum provides nicotine through oral
absorption. Tobacco gum is made from finely
powdered tobacco mixed with a gum base, rather
than freebase nicotine.
– Dissolvable tobacco consists of finely-processed
tobacco which is developed in such a way as to allow
the substance to dissolve on the tongue or in the
mouth.
– Topical tobacco paste, tobacco paste which is applied
to the skin and absorbed through the dermis
– Tobacco water, a mixture of water and tobacco
How Tobacco affects the body?
• Short-Term effects of Tobacco use:
– Changes in brain chemistry
– Increased respiration and heart rate
– Dulled taste buds and reduced appetite
– Bad breath and smell hair, clothes, and skin.
• Long-Term effects of Tobacco use:
– Chronic bronchitis
– Emphysema
– Leukoplakia – can develop oral cancer
– Lung Cancer
– Coronary heart disease and stroke
• Constricts blood vessels.
 Other Consequences
• Legal consequences
• selling under the age of 18 is illegal in all states
• Schools prohibit the use
• Social consequences
• Secondhand smoke & smell is offensive to people
• Financial consequences
• Very expensive
• $2,000 or more for year
• $97 billion a year in US
 Cigarette Smoke. Toxic?
• Not only is addictive, also the smoke is toxic.
• Secondhand smoke is the most dangerous carcinogen
– A cancer-causing substance
• Cigarette contains:
– Tar
– Carbon monoxide
• Also cigarette contains about 4000 chemicals, many of which are poisonous. Some of
the worst ones are:
– Nicotine: a deadly poison
– Arsenic: used in rat poison
– Methane: a component of rocket fuel
– Ammonia: found in floor cleaner
– Cadmium: used in batteries
– Carbon Monoxide: part of car exhaust
– Formaldehyde: used to preserve body tissue
– Butane: lighter fluid
– Hydrogen Cyanide: the poison used in gas chambers
• Every time you inhale smoke from a cigarette, small amounts of these chemicals get
into your blood through your lungs. They travel to all the parts of your body and cause
harm.
Lung with Emphysema
What is ETS?
• Environmental Tobacco Smoke
• Also known as passive smoking or
secondhand smoke, occurs when
nonsmokers inhale other people’s
tobacco smoke.
• This includes
– Mainstream smoke.
• smoke that is exhaled into the air by smokers
– Sidestream smoke.
• smoke that comes directly from the burning
tobacco in cigarettes.
• Babies of parents who smoke have a
greater chance of dying of SIDS
(Sudden Infant Death Syndrome)
Why some teens use tobacco?
• Some choose not to resist the
peer pressure.
• Some believe that smoking will
make them seem mature and
independent.
– Media influence
– Imitation, or model like celebrities.
• A friend who already smokes
makes you try.
 Strategies for preventing use of
tobacco
• Nearly 90% of all adult smokers
started when they were teens.
Some strategies are:

– Choose friends who don’t use

tobacco
– Avoid situations where tobacco
products may be used
– Practice and use refusal skills
– Like “No thanks”, or you may give a
reason.
 Tobacco free
• Some factors contributing to reduce tobacco
among teens are:
– Antismoking campaigns
• Tobacco companies are required to funds ads to
discourage youth from smoking.
– Financial cost
• Tobacco use is $$$
– Societal pressures
• Limited smoking in public places.
– Family influence
• Parents strongly disapprove use of tobacco products.
– Damaging effects
• Realize that secondhand smoke is harming their families
and friends, begin health problems
 Give up!! – Tips for quitting
Quit plan info.
• Prepare for the day
• Set a target date to quitting
• Get support and encouragement
• From family, peers, friends.
• Identify available health-related
services in the community
• Join a support group, seek advice from a
doctor.
• Replace tobacco use with healthier
alternatives
• Sugarless gum, carrots, cinnamon sticks.
• Change daily behavior
• Avoid other tobacco users, throw away your
house cigarettes, don’t carry them
• Engage in healthful behaviors
• Physical activity, good nutrition, stress-
management techniques.
 What is nicotine replacement
therapy?
• NRTs are medicines that help to decrease
or stop a smoker’s withdrawal
• A condition that occurs when a person stops using
a drug or medicine on which the person has a
chemical dependency.
• By providing controlled doses of nicotine
without the other harmful components of
cigarette smoke.
– Patches, gums, inhalers, nasal sprays, or
lozenges.
One Hour Stop Smoking Specialists Of
Minnesota- Information
• Tobacco use reminds common among American Youth,
• High school students used some type of tobacco (28%)
• Middle school students used some form of tobacco
(13%), being cigarettes most common.
• When an ex-smoker smokes a cigarette, even years
after quitting, a nicotine reaction may be triggered
quickly causing to want to smoke again
• Menthol cigarettes are not safer than other brands and
may even be more dangerous.
– Because people who smokes these cigarettes inhale deeper and
hold the smoke inside longer than with the no menthol cigarettes
• 200 thousand cigarette boxes, the same
number as American people that die each
6 months of tobacco consequence.
• 65 thousand cigarettes. The same number
as American teens under the age of 18
number that start to smoke per month.
 Where can I find help?
• One Hour Stop Smoking Specialists Of Minnesota.
– 7300 France Ave S. Edina
• (612) 866 - 7575
– Toll Free
• 1 (866) 220 - 7781
• Center for Disease Control and Prevention Office on Smoking &
Health
– Internet address www.cdc.gov/tobacco
• 1 (800) 4-CANCER,<22 6237>
• Quit Plan
– Toll free
– Internet address www.quitplan.com
• 1 (888) 354 – PLAN <7526>
– For hearing impaired
• 1 (877) 559 – 3816 (TTY)