Tobacco and your respiratory

system: chapter 5

Describe the major parts of your respiratory system

Describe why tobacco can be harmful for your health

Describe what makes tobacco so addicting

Describe how someone can quit smoking tobacco

Turn to page 99 in your book and read

the questionnaire.

Do you know someone who smokes?Laney goes “smoke free”Lets review page 100

Parts of the respiratory system

When you smoke, 4,700 chemicals enter your lungs

Your lungs:

Exchanging waste products, CO2 for O2

Why do people smoke ?

It keeps people from slowing down

Handling a cigarette is enjoyable

Smoking is relaxing

It helps to sooth

Takes mind off of worries

Habit

Is a “pick me up”

People smoke because of the tobacco industry and advertising

18 million dollars per day is spent !!!!!!!! Just thinks about all the starving people in the world we could feed with this money.

The tobacco industry actively targets teenagers: 18-24 year olds.

Phillip Morris is actively seeking new smokers in Asia.

Advertising affects your unconscious mind:

The Russian scientist Pavlov

Aversion therapy sends negative associations to the unconscious about smoking. It helps to reduce the craving.

Students and others are especially vulnerable when put under new stresses.

Asthma

It is a chronic disease that affects the airways.

The airways become swollen, inflamed, fill with more mucous, and become irritated.

A wheezing sound can be heard.

Quitting:

80% of smokers try to quit without a program and 95% fail. It is the same as heroin.One of the best, free resources is www.californiasmokershelpline.orgAs well as nicotine anonymousHypnosis and acupuncture have been used recently to help smokers to quit.

Summary:

The major parts of the respiratory system are the trachea, bronchus, bronchioles and alveoli.

Tobacco has chemicals that damage the lungs ability to exchange oxygen and carbon dioxide.

The tobacco industry spends billions each year to try to get you hooked.

There are free smokers help lines and organizations, always get help.