How To Stop Smoking

Helps keep their weight down

Increases energy levels

With all these rewards,

• With all these rewards,
• No wonder it is so hard to quit!!!!

The rewards of smoking go a long way toward minimizing the negative consequences and an even longer way toward ensuring that the act of smoking is repeated again and again

• The rewards of smoking go a long way toward minimizing the negative consequences and an even longer way toward ensuring that the act of smoking is repeated again and again
• Until it becomes a habit so well ingrained that you do it without even thinking about it!

But, smoking is not just a habit---

• But, smoking is not just a habit---
• It is an addiction.
• Nicotine in cigarettes is a powerful addictive drug that makes smokers feel good.
• Each time you smoke, the positive biological effects of nicotine add to all the other positive rewards of smoking making the habit even stronger!

Effects of Nicotine

• Nicotine affects almost every organ system in the body.
• When you puff:

Your heart beats faster

• Your heart beats faster
• Veins constrict
• Blood pressure increases
• Adrenal glands pump out adrenaline
• Smooth muscles relax
• Metabolic rate increases
• Even the electrical activity in the brain changes!

Nicotine is a powerful drug!!

• Nicotine is a powerful drug!!
• It is one of the most toxic of all drugs, comparable to cyanide. Take enough of it and it can kill you!
• Each cigarette generally contains 8 or 9mg of nicotine
• However the amount of nicotine inhaled from each cigarette is only 1.5mg

The amount of nicotine inhaled can be higher or lower depending on:

• The amount of nicotine inhaled can be higher or lower depending on:
• The type of cigarette smoked
• How deeply you inhale
• How many puffs you take from each cigarette.