...It is only common sense that smoking is bad for us. Not only is cigarette smoking one of the most avoidable causes of poor health and death in our world today. But “smoking puts your friends and family at risk. Approximately 50,000 adult non-smokers die each year from second hand smoke alone, 3,000 of which die from lung cancer.” (NIDA/tobaccofreekids.org) Did you know that smoking is the leading cause of death in the United States “approximately 443,000 deaths or 1 of every 5 deaths, in the United States each year.”(CDC) E-cigarettes are known as electronic cigarette and vaporizer cigarette. They are devices that emit dose of vaporizer nicotine. They use a battery source to power the device. They are also a non-tobacco product. There are many that believe that e-cigarettes are going to draw children and young people into the habit because the e-liquids are made to taste sweet like fruit, desserts and popular beverages. Research has proved that nearly 3,000 kids under the age of 18 will try their first cigarette and another 700 become regular smokers. (Society) Most of them probably started smoking because there was a family member or a friend that they knew are smokers or former smokers. If the young people are going to smoke, they should chose the less harmful device to get their nicotine. There are about 480,000 deaths a year attributed to smoking or secondhand smoke. Many people smokers have switched from cigarettes to e-cigarette. There has been about 2 million smokers...
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...by a Greek physician Hippocrates, the first case of asthma was found in China in 2400 BC. Asthma is caused by many different things for instance, if you have a blood relative (parent or sibling) with asthma there is a chance you might have asthma due to genetics, many allergies cause you to have a higher chance of having asthma such as eczema and hay fever being overweight and smoking also increase your chances of getting asthma because of severe breathing problems and lung pollution even if you don’t smoke secondhand smoking where you inhale smoke because you are often near someone smoking can lead to lung pollution which is a factor of asthma. Many hairsprays and pesticides contain chemicals which if inhaled can fill the lungs with dangerous fumes and toxins and lead to asthma. Cold air is another major factor in asthma because the lungs bulge and contract harder in cold air and over 80% of people with asthma say that when they exercise in the cold air it leads to asthma attacks....
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...psychological habit. The nicotine from cigarettes provides a temporary, and addictive, high. Eliminating that regular fix of nicotine will cause your body to experience physical withdrawal symptoms and cravings. Because of nicotine’s “feel good” effect on the brain, you may also have become accustomed to smoking as a way of coping with stress, depression, anxiety, or even boredom. At the same time, the act of smoking is ingrained as a daily ritual. It may be an automatic response for you to smoke a cigarette with your morning coffee, while taking a break from work or school, or during your commute home at the end of a long day. Perhaps friends, family members, and colleagues smoke, and it has become part of the way you relate with them. To successfully quit smoking, you’ll need to address both the addiction and the habits and routines that go along with it. Your Personal Stop Smoking Plan While some smokers successfully quit by going cold turkey, most people do better with a plan to keep themselves on track. A good plan addresses both the short–term challenge of quitting smoking and the long–term challenge of preventing relapse. It should also be tailored to your specific needs and smoking habits. Questions to ask yourself Take the time to think of what kind of smoker you are, which moments of your life call for a cigarette, and why. This will help you to identify which tips, techniques or therapies may be most beneficial for you. Do you feel the need to smoke at every...
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...Smoking Time and Temperature Chart Item To Be Smoked Smoking Target Temperature Approximate Smoking Time Final Intenal Temperature Brisket (Thin Sliced) 8 to 12 lbs. Brisket (Thick Sliced) 8 to 12 lbs. Brisket (Pulled) 8 to 12 lbs. Bottom Round (inject with marinate - bacon wrapped) Chuck Roast (Sliced Rare) Chuck Roast (Sliced Medium) Chuck Roast (Sliced Well Done) Chuck Roast (Pulled) Filet Mignon Smoked Hamburgers Jerky (Sliced Meat) Jerky (Hamburger) Boneles Prime Rib Prime Rib Rare Prime Rib Medium Prime Rib Well Done Sirloin Tip Roasts Steamship Round (40 Lbs.) Whole Ribeye Loin Rare Whole Ribeye Loin Medium Whole Ribeye Loin Well Done Rump Roast Last Updated 9/23/2007 Beef and Venison 225° F to 250° F 225° F to 250° F 225° F to 250° F 200° F to 225° F 225° F to 250° F 225° F to 250° F 225° F to 250° F 225° F to 250° F Cold Smoke then 350° F 225° F to 250° F 140° F 140° F 225° F to 250° F 225° F to 250° F 225° F to 250° F 225° F to 250° F 225° F to 250° F 190ºF 225° F to 250° F 225° F to 250° F 225° F to 250° F 225° F to 250° F 1.5 hours per pound 1.5 hours per pound 1.5 hours per pound 1.5 hours per pound 1 hour per pound 1.25 hours per pound 1.5 hours per pound 1.5 hours per pound Until Done 30 to 40 Minutes 3 to 4 hours 3 to 4 hours 12 Minutes/lb 10 minutes/lb 15 minutes/lb 20 minutes/lb 8 Hours 12 to 14 Hours 20 minutes/lb 25 minutes/lb 30 minutes/lb 30 minutes/lb 185° F 195° F 205°F 125° F 155° F 185° F 195° F Until Done Until Done Until Done Until...
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...Effects of Smoking and Pregnancy William Franklin Stewart Marshall University January 19, 2010 Thesis Statement Smoking during pregnancy is associated with many adverse outcomes for children as well as negative consequences for child health and development. Maternal smoking late in pregnancy reduces birth weight and size. Babies that are born to habitual smokers "weigh, on average, about 9 oz. less, and are shorter both at birth and in the years to come" (Berger 115). Nicotine is the addictive ingredient in cigarettes and breaking that habit can be nearly impossible for some women. What is the acceptable way for her to stop smoking? It's my opinion a woman needs to gather all of the information she can and then discuss her options with her doctor. Only she and the doctor can know how her body reacts to certain medications and to nicotine withdrawal. Discussed in this paper are some of the issues facing the mother and child. Effects of Smoking and Pregnancy Quitting Smoking First and foremost, a woman should quit smoking if she is thinking about becoming pregnant. Quitting will help produce a baby that will be of the same birth weight of a baby born of a woman who has never smoked. Doctors have different opinions to the correct way to quit. Some favor quitting cold turkey, stepping down gradually, taking prescription drugs such as Zyban and Chantix. Both of these need a prescription in most cases and both can have serious side effects as well. Wearing patches...
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...Smoking isn't good for someone's body. Especially, if that person has been smoking a pack of cigarette a day, and for a long period of time; but what are the physical effects of smoking on your body? The effects of smoking varies, and it will depend on a person's vulnerability to the chemical(be specific about these chemicals) in the cigarette or tobacco. It will also depend on the number of cigarette sticks a person smokes per day, the age when the person first started to smoke, and the number of years that the person has been smoking for. According to recent studies, every year hundreds of thousands of people around the globe die from medical complications caused by smoking. Aside from the stench it leaves on someone's clothes, breath, and hair,(I think this is a not a good argument) it also has other complications. Here are some of the different effects of smoking, it: * Raises a person's blood pressure and heart rate. * Decreases a person's blood flow to body extremities-like the fingers and toes. * It stimulates the brain and the nervous system for a short time and then reduce the stimulation. * Causes dizziness, nausea, watery eyes, and hyper acidity. * Weakens the sense of taste and smell. * Causes the loss of appetite. Other effects: * Shortness of breath. * Chronic coughing. * Reduced overall fitness(be specific). * Yellowish stain on the smoker's fingers and teeth. * Smokers experience more coughs and colds as compared to non-smokers...
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...current.termsof-use#LAA (Article begins on next page) Laden et al. BMC Public Health 2013, 13:93 http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2458/13/93 RESEARCH ARTICLE Open Access A cross-sectional study of secondhand smoke exposure and respiratory symptoms in noncurrent smokers in the U.S. trucking industry: SHS exposure and respiratory symptoms Francine Laden1,2,3*, Yueh-Hsiu Chiu1, Eric Garshick3,4, S Katharine Hammond5 and Jaime E Hart1,3 Abstract Background: Previous studies have suggested associations of adult exposures to secondhand smoke (SHS) with respiratory symptoms, but no study has focused on blue-collar industrial environments. We assessed the association between SHS and respiratory symptoms in 1,562 non-current smoking U.S. trucking industry workers. Methods: Information on SHS exposure and respiratory health was obtained by...
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...help book to quit smoking Nicotine is one of the most addictive, harmful and widely available legal drugs in the world. Smoking is a bad habit and is harmful to people who don't smoke. It harms children who are exposed to it passively. Cigarettes are responsible for around 4.9 million deaths each year. Quitting smoking is not impossible. Smoking tobacco is both a physical addiction and a psychological habit. The nicotine from cigarettes provides a temporary and addictive high. Eliminating that regular fix of nicotine will cause your body to experience physical withdrawal symptoms and cravings. Managing unpleasant feelings such as stress, depression, loneliness, fear, and anxiety are some of the most common reasons why people smoke. When you have a bad day, it can seem like cigarettes are your only friend. As much comfort as cigarettes provide, it's important to remember that there are healthier, more effective ways to keep unpleasant feelings in check. These may include exercising, meditating, using sensory relaxation strategies, and practicing simple breathing exercises. At the same time, the act of smoking is ingrained as a daily ritual. It may be an automatic response for you to smoke a cigarette with your morning coffee, while taking a break from work or school or during your commute home at the end of a long day. Perhaps friends, family members, and colleagues smoke and it has become part of the way you relate with them. To successfully quit smoking, you’ll need to address...
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...: Changing Habits I have been a smoker for 15 years on and off and believe it or not; I am embarrassed of this unhealthy bad habit. Knowing this is an unhealthy habit and being embarrassed of smoking is still not enough to get me to quit. The times that I have quit smoking, something in my life caused me to start up again. The causes were my mother having a heart attack, grandfather passed away, stress of losing a job, and not having a job. I’m not a heavy smoker, I usually smoke maybe a quarter or half a pack a day, so you would think that it would be easy for me to quit. I know the reason I can’t quit is the fear of having something bad happening to my family. I believe using the principles of operant conditioning I will be able to create a plan to finally put an end to my smoking. The first step is to identify the habit, which is smoking. I need to understand when I decide to light that cigarette, and why I decided to light it. I know that I always have that first cigarette in the morning when I put my dog outside, but I never smoke a full cigarette. The other places I smoke are in my vehicle, after a meal, before and after a shower, before bed time, in the middle of the night if I have had a nightmare that seemed real, and after an argument with my family. Now that I have an identified when I smoke, the next step is to understand why I decided to have that cigarette during those times and why. What are my moods, am I tired, bored, stressed, what am...
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...to change or keep up a new one. I personally think it is hard to give up an addiction cold turkey; I do believe that relapse does help at times to identify your mistakes and find a way to overcome it. I had to give my self-task to do before I even take a step toward smoking. It was hard not to smoke at least four to five time a day or even more. I set rules and I told myself only smoke if some good happen if there was a good reason for it. Like make sure that after I go food shopping I separate, clean and season the meats or make sure my kids and I all finish homework and read for the day a minimum of 25 pages a day. Alternatively, just make sure that whatever I had plan for the day was done before I locked myself in my room to smoke; by the time I was done with my daily routine as a single mom and a fulltime student I was so tired that I didn’t even thought of smoking most of the times, if I did, it would be the bed time blunt, cause now I was ashamed to be around my family and coworkers intoxicated. Another addiction I had to cut down was smoking cigarettes, I think I had pretty well too, like I only smoke on my personal time , I don’t smoke if am working or in school or if am home with the kids, I mostly only smoke when am out with my friends having some drinks. However, I try to keep myself really occupied and involved in my kid’s school activities so I always have to be around none smoking people it keeps me away from it too. After all keeping yourself occupy, it’s not so bad...
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...The objective of this study was “to determine the efficacy and safety of varenicline for increasing smoking abstinence rates through smoking reduction”1 in the precessation phase. The study design was a randomized, double-blinded, placebo-controlled, multinational clinical trial performed by Jon O. Ebbert et. This medication was given to smokers who were not willing or able to quit smoking within the next month but were willing to reduce smoking and make a quit attempt within the next 3 months. The time frame for this study was 52 weeks, where varenicline was given initially on a 24-week treatment period and 28-week follow-up. Trial design was a two arm parallel, the use of varenicline offers smokers an option to reduce smoking and improve...
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...Smoking Disease in Native Americans Smoking Disease in Native Americans Smoking cigarettes is a very dangerous habit and according to the American Psychological Association (APA) is highly addictive. Because smoking is such an addictive habit most people consider it a disease on its own. Although this is a universal known fact, people still choose to smoke. “Nicotine is the ingredient in cigarettes that causes addiction. Smokers not only become physically addicted to nicotine; they also link smoking with many social activities, making smoking an, extremely difficult addiction to break” (The American Lung Association, 2011). Smoking is also related to many health problems especially respiratory diseases such as lung cancer and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). They also relate smoking with relaxation and as a stress reliever, but there is nothing positive about this nasty habit. Even though some say smoking helps them to relax, they need to stop smoking for their health because smoking is the cause of many health problems. According to the Center for Disease Control (CDC), “the percentage of American adults who smoke decreased from 20.9 percent in 2005 to 19.3 percent in 2010. That translates to three million fewer smokers than there would have been with no decline. But almost one in five adults still smoke” (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2011. P. 1). Based on a national health survey conducted in 2010 of the three million of...
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...Explain how you would handle this situation if you were Charles Renfold. Charles Renfold has a report due right away and Darlene is refusing to do this report in the room where Alice and Frank have been smoking. Even though they are respectful to not smoke while she is in there the residue of the smoke still remains in spite of them opening the window to air out the room. Charles realizes that the law is his state requires him to provide a smoke free environment when the employee desires it. If I were Charles I would provide another area in which Darlene could do the necessary report. Darlene is in titled to have her moral and human rights respected by her employer. She does not have to be subjected to the old stale smoke in the room where the smokers work. It is great that they are trying to be considerate, but the one smoker, Alice, is rather resentful of Darlene thinking she is being overly sensitive to the smoke. I feel she is being unfair because what if it were Darlene smoking I am sure Alice would want her concerns heard. 2. Describe the policy on smoking that you would recommend to Redwood Associates. The state law requires the company to provide a smoke free environment. I would recommend that if the employees want to smoke I would have a place designated for smoking outside of the building which would be fair to both the employees who smoke and the ones that do not smoke. In this day an age it is surprising that it is not already a smoke free environment. If I worked...
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...picking up prescriptions and turn around to see the same pharmacy selling tobacco? Smoking is the leading cause of deaths in the US. “Cigarette smoking causes more than 480,000 deaths each year in the United States. This is about one in five deaths.” (CDC, 2014) Pharmacies around the United States should ban tobacco because of the negative side effects it can do one’s body, but also by banning tobacco at the local pharmacies will bring attention to why smoking is bad for the health. Health before wealth. It’s safe to say any company will do anything to raise sales, even sell tobacco while promoting a healthy lifestyle. CVS pharmacy raked in about $2 billion dollars annually from tobacco sales. In addition, the company revenue rose up to 9.7%. At least, this didn’t have a negative impact on the pharmacy sales. On the other hand, the front store did feel a little bit of change in the sales, but in overall the no tobacco in stores helped the company. With 900 walk-in clinics most CVS pharmacies offer quick easy clinics. “More than 70-90% of smokers who try to quit will relapse into regular tobacco use with the average smoker making five to seven quit attempts before actually succeeding long-term.” (Handbook of Smoking and Health, 2011) Minute Clinic helps customers with high blood pressure and diabetes, also help treat minor illnesses. Also, the nurse practitioners help with how to stop smoking. This issue very close to the CEO, Larry Merlo, he lost his father to tobacco related...
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...International Smoking Prevalence List of Tables Table 1: Smoking-Attributable Deaths Among Adults, 2000-2004 and Projected Smoking-Attributable Deaths Among Youth, 2003-2004 Table 2: Cigarette Consumption, United States, 1900-2007 Table 3: Number of Adults Who Were Current Smokers by Sex, Race, and Age, Selected Years, 1965-2009 Table 4: Percent of Adults Who Were Current Smokers by Sex, Race, and Age, Selected Years, 1965-2009 Table 5: Age-Adjusted Prevalence (%) of Current Cigarette Smoking by Persons 25 and Older by Sex, Race and Education, Selected Years, 1974-2009 Table 6: Percent of Adults Who Smoke by the Number of Cigarettes Smoked Daily and the Percent Who Smoked >24 Cigarettes Daily by Sex, Race, Hispanic Origin, Age and Education, Selected Years, 1974-2009 Table 7: Percent of Young Adults (Ages 18-24) Who Were Current, Former or Never Smokers by Sex, Race and Education, 1965-2009 Table 8: Current Cigarette Smoking Prevalence (%) Among Adults by State, Selected Years, 1984-2009 Table 9: Percent of Adults Who Use Other Tobacco Products by Age and Sex, 2002-2009 Table 10: Percent of All Middle and High School Students Who Were Current Users of Tobacco Products by Sex and Race/Ethnicity, 2000-2009 Table 11: Percent of High School Students Who Reported Current Cigarette Smoking By Sex, Race and Grade, 1991-2009 Table 12: Prevalence (%) of Daily Cigarette Smoking Among Students by Sex and Race, 1976-2010 Table 13: Current Cigarette Smoking Among Youth by...
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