choose healthy stuff stub out smoking!. risk factors
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Choose Healthy Stuff
Stub out Smoking!
Risk Factors
Fact or Fiction?
Throughout the presentation you will be asked to read the following statements & decide if they are fact or fiction!
Stub out Smoking?
How many chemicals are in
one cigarette?
OVER 4,000
What’s in a cigarette?
Butane
Lighter fluid
DDT/Delidrin
Insecticides
Methanol
Jet fuel
Hydrogen Cyanide
Gas chamber poison
Formaldehyde
Preserves animals in museums
Arsenic
Poison
Toluene
Industrial solvent
Ethanol
Alcohol
Cadmium
Batteries
Lead
Pencil
3 most harmful chemicals are:
Nicotine – Addiction
Carbon monoxide -COPD
Tar
Carbon monoxide - Heart attack & stroke
Fact or Fiction
Smoking can cause high blood pressure
Fact
Fact or Fiction
Nicotine takes 1 minute to get to the brain
Fiction
How many cigarettes a day are in this jar of tar?
Tar
20 cigarettes a day for a
year
What will happen to my body if I smoke?
Tar dyes the lungs black &
can cause COPD
Arteries to the heart get blocked
= heart attack
Arteries to the brain get blocked
= stroke
What will happen to my body if I smoke?
• Yellow teeth, hair and nails;• Bad breath• Deep wrinkles• Increases the risk of diabetes type 2• Possible Cancer
Fact
Aprilage
16 years old 64 years old
© 2014 Aprilage Inc.
Every second counts!
Fact or Fiction
My lungs will repair themselves once I quit smoking
Fiction
Help someone to quit!
− If you know someone who wants to quit – REMEMBER it is there choice
− They can get help from:
Doctors/PharmacistCommunity support groups
Smoker’s Helpline: 0808 812 8008
www.want2stop.info
Stop Smoking Apps
NHS stop smoking AppNHS Smokefree App
NICHS Advice
Eat a balanced
diet
Kids60 mins. of
P.Aa day
Stub out smoking
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