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.org
As well as nicotine anonymous
Hypnosis 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.