Quit Smoking and Chewing

BAD HABIT- decreases your health and your family’s health, wastes money, causes wrinkles

Cigars, Smokeless Tobacco, Snuff, Pipe- contain nitrosamines which cause cancer, chewed, inhaled or held in cheek
Nicotine- Raises blood pressure, heart rate
Mouth (can develop into cancer)- thick, wrinkled, white patches (leukoplakia)
Asthma- less severe attacks, less severe
Risk of Heart Attack- cut into half the first year after smoking
Five Years- about the same risk as never smoking
Lung damage- irreversible, prevents more lung damage when quitting
decreases- cough, SOB (Shortness of Breath), damage to mouth, tongue, lips, throat
Sexual- fewer problems maintaining erections

See your Physician- ask about nicotine patches (gum, nasal spray, patches, inhalers)
See RD for help as needed
See FFF RD on line for help
Quit Smoking- to improve your health, causes cancer, heart disease, stroke
Children- have more ear infections, asthma, bronchitis, breathing problems, and are more likely to smoke if their parents smoke
Exercise, use low calorie snacks, gums, use relaxation methods, set goals and stick with your goals, get help as needed
AVOID- Alcohol and Smoking -decreases- accidents, problems in your life and those you love