Smoking Smoking

In the United States, smoking cigarettes is the number one preventable cause of morbidity and death (Bergen, 1999), and accounts for $300 Billion in health care costs and economic productivity loss (Jamal, 2015). While the national smoking rate is 16.8% (CDC, 2016), specific demographics are more susceptible to developing smoking habits: people who live below the poverty line (10.9% higher), disabled or with a limitation (6.2% higher), and males (4.7% higher) (Agaku, 2014).

One of my first memories in the United States was taking a Drug Abuse Resistance Education (D.A.R.E) class. I was in sixth grade and a top student, as talking about drugs and alcohol and the way they affect us was fascinating to me. This is why, the following year, I volunteered to become a peer educator in Teens Against Tobacco Use (T.A.T.U). For a couple of years, I gave presentations to young students which included facts, demonstrations, and games, to spread the knowledge that tobacco is harmful and that staying away from smoking prolongs life expectancy and increases the quality of life. It should come as no surprise, then, that I consider myself a big proponent of staying tobacco-free and encouraging others to quit smoking as a great way to promote health. I remember watching my mom and sister as they took part in their nightly ritual of smoking a few cigarettes to unwind. “Did you know that a main component of cigarettes is used as rocket fuel?” I would ask them, as I opened the window and they stared back at me blankly. “We know, we know” was the answer every time. I knew that convincing them to quit was no easy task, but I was committed. Day after day, I proudly stated a new fact about the evils of smoking. Finally one day, they quit. At first, they attributed it to the cost. Since we had just immigrated to the United States, the cost of cigarettes was simply not something they could afford. I didn’t believe it. I proudly

The smoking cessation was witnessed by the author throughout her placement. This was used on a daily basis in the community by district nurses, health visitors, but especially by the general practice nurses as being incorporated in each consultation in the form of advices, leaflets, smoking cessation programs including medication and follow-ups.

Of the roughly 42 million adults in the US that use tobacco, nearly 69% of smokers want to quit and more than 42% of those wishing to quit will make the attempt through various methods(1). These methods range from the "cold turkey" method, nicotine replacement therapy, behavioural therapy and even medicine. Each method has it's unique strengths and weaknesses as well as varying success rates. There are many reasons to quit and many ways in which to do so, either with methods that involve slowly weaning off of nicotine, like gums and patches from replacement therapy, to nicotine-free methods which require support from various sources.

And results from previous studies indicate that different groups of smokers would have different outcomes in health, and health disparities in smoking cessation exist among smokers currently. Researchers investigate these disparities by race, gender, socioeconomic status, insurance status and so on. Racial/ethnic health disparities is one of the major disparities that researchers found. Compared with non-Hispanic Whites, racial/ethnic minorities are less likely to quit smoking successfully. 1-3. In particular, smokers who are African Americans and Hispanics/Latinos are less likely to be provided advices about smoking cessation by health care providers than non-Hispanic Whites,1 and Hispanic/Latino smokers face more barriers when they attempt to quit smoking.2 Barriers to quitting smoking not only decrease the success rate of smoking cessation for smokers, but it also aggravate disparities among smokers. Undoubtedly, smoking cessation services and advices that provided by health care providers help smokers to quit smoking more successful compared with smokers who rely smoking cessation on themselves. And lack of advice from health care providers increase the failure rate of smoking

The leading cause of death in the county is heart disease followed by cancer, and both of these can be linked to smoking or second-hand smoke exposure. Methods to move toward HP2020’s goal will involve encouraging and assisting smokers to quit. The Community Guide is a free resource to help guide communities to choose programs and policies for cessation. These programs are evidenced based, research-tested and include suggestions such as increasing the unit based price on tobacco products and how this would help to decrease use, increase the number of those who quit, decrease the number of those who try cigarettes the first time and decrease the tobacco related morbidity and mortality. The research suggest the improved health effects are proportional to the size of the price increase, also noted to be effective in prevention is mass reach communication or advertising regarding the dangers of smoking and also techniques for quitting (The Community guide, n.d.). Counseling is noted to be effective alone and with the use of medications and is available through programs like the toll-free quitline in South Carolina. Healthcare professional are urged to screen patients for use of tobacco and provide cessation information to all patients and also treatment strategies such as

An estimated 36.5 million or 15.1 % of adults aged 18 years old and older currently smoke cigarettes and more than 16,000,000 have smoking or live with diseases that are related to smoking. According to US department of health and human services, over the past five decades, there is a significant decline in cigarette smoking in the U.S. The progress has slowed in recent years and the prevalence of use of other tobacco products such as vapes, e-cigars and smokeless tobacco

Information that can be used in public policy planning for cigarette smoking is the value in the health assessment process known as the Precede-Proceed model, which is an understandable thorough structure for assessing and joining health needs for implementing, designing, and evaluating health promotion and other public health programs (Rural Health, 2016). A public policy is needed for cigarette smoking to be prevented and stopped by individuals who smoke. There has been an increase with male cigarette smoking in the community of Los Angeles, and a lot of young adults reported that they smoke. However, the percentage of smoking in the community is at large overall, and needs a public policy to be enforced for the community’s health rate with

One of the largest issues today is adolescent smoking. According to a heath based website, nearly 90% of adult smokers start while they are still teens and they never intend to get hooked. They may start by bumming a cigarette or two from a friend at a party, and then go on to buying an occasional pack. Soon they realize that they can't go without that pack. They've gotten used to reaching for a cigarette first thing in the morning, after meals, or during any stressful time. They become addicted, both physically and psychologically. According to the American Lung Association, each day 6,000 children under the age of 18 smoke their first cigarette. Almost 2,000 of them will become regular smokers – that’s 757, 000 new smokers annually!

Tobacco smoke contains numerous cytotoxic substances such as nicotine, which can enter the soft tissue of oral cavity, follow to the tooth surface or enter into the blood stream. Potential molecular and cellular components in the pathogenesis of smoking related periodontal illnesses has been detailed and these incorporate, immuno-suppression, exaggerated inflammatory cell reactions, and impeded stromal cell functions of oral tissues. The association between cigarette smoking and periodontal infections speak to a significant oral health problems. Tobacco harms economy and economic advancement as the tobacco use predominance is high among the lower income groups based on the results of the study. The present study comprised of 150 tobacco users of which 100 were males and 50 were females. This might be due to the truth that a few occupations of men require a significant sum of physical energy and a tall level of concentration like in case of drivers with odd working hours. This can be stressful, which in conjunction with peer weight can lead to the start of pernicious oral habits (Sujatha et al., 2012). Among the numerous oral mucosal lesions found in smokers, smoker’s palate and tobacco pouch keratosis were the most as often as possible experienced lesions and this finding was consistent with that of past studies by Saraswathi et al., (2006), Hedin et al., (1993) and Sujatha et al., (2012).

Numerous drugs are despicable substances in my observance as an adolescent except for smoking cigarettes. Unfortunately, my parents smoked cigarettes and I started smoking at the young age of fifteen. All of my friends smoked cigarettes except for one during my adolescent years. I remember it being portrayed as an acceptable, enjoyable activity to participate with my peers. Many adolescent kids would stand in front of our house before school started in the morning since we lived on the corner of the street where the middle school existed. Schoolchildren would offer cigarettes nearly every day and the first two years of middle school, I did not accept the offers. Regrettably, I did receive a few cigarettes from them during the ninth grade school year and I started smoking during middle adolescent. Peer pressure from other teenagers was an influence for the choice to pick up the terrible habit. Moreover, observing the actions of my parents and other classmates smoke made it seem intriguing. Moreover, I would purchase packs of cigarettes from money that I made from babysitting until I started working a regular job. Consequently, social learning by reinforcement of my behavior is attained by my parents permitting the smoking outside the house. Also, the behavior is the assimilation of observing how the activities of others are reinforcing which is modeling (Hutchinson, 2017, p. 93). Happily, I have not smoked a cigarette for years and never have a craving for

“Every day, approximately 4,800 young people between the ages of 11 and 17 will smoke their first cigarette. Of these, almost half will become regular smokers” (Wagner, 60). Many teens do not fear the consequences of using tobacco. They view their use of tobacco as temporary and easily resolvable. Unfortunately, the nicotine in tobacco products is highly addictive, which makes quitting challenging. When and if they finally quit, the consequences to their health have already taken its toll.

Smoking has a negative effect on the health of smokers because people are more susceptible to lung cancer and it shortens lives of individuals. Cigarettes are the main contributor of decline in lung function (Thomson et al., 2004, 822). They are made out of toxins and oxidative chemicals (Leopold et al., 2009, 1). The alternative to cigarettes are e-cigarettes, which gained popularity due to producing same satisfaction as cigarettes, but not containing tobacco which provides lung cancer (Fine, 2014, 2). Nicotine, however; is an addictive substance and is in both e-cigarettes (Fine, 2014, 1) and cigarettes. It is an alkaloid which has nitrogen and is made from plants. E-cigarettes have heavy metal like tin and nickel which hurts the lungs

According to the National Cancer Institute, “Cigarette smoking causes an estimated 443,000 deaths each year, including approximately 49,400 deaths due to exposure to secondhand smoke.” I am sure everyone in here knows someone who smokes or you yourself may smoke. This speech will give you the knowledge you need to know to help you or your loved ones stop smoking. I myself have been a smoker for the past three years. I recently quit on the 23rd of March. After smoking a pack a day for the last year I decided to quit cold turkey. Even though I decided to quit that way I will go over the three main ways to quit smoking which are medication therapy, non-medication therapy, and cold

Cigarettes are booming in the tobacco industry everyone has one of these in their hands and they probably know it's bad for them, News, adds and scientific research is informing the public how bad cigarettes are. Asthma attacks, coughing and getting sick often are some of the illnesses that you will experience as you began to smoke. Your body gets weaker and you’ll start to see more serious illnesses as you progress to smoke for a longer period of time this may lead to many long terms disease and side effects. The lung gets most affected by smoking you may experience lung cancer or even COPD (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease). Cigarette smoke contains over 4,000 chemicals, including 43 known cancer causing ingredients and 400 other