Stop Smoking

1. Stop
Smoking

2. The Facts
Smoking:
 Is addictive – more than heroine or cocaine
 Makes your clothes, hair and breath smell
 Turns your teeth and fingers yellow
 Increases risk of stroke and heart attack
 Increases risk of developing diabetes
 Is the most common cause of lung, throat
and mouth cancer

3. Why Do Young People
Start Smoking?
Think of Some Reasons

4. Some Reasons:
 Young people are attracted to the image:
 Because their friends and family are
smokers
 Cultural Influences

5. What are in Cigarettes?
A horrible fact

6. Over 4000 Chemicals!!!!
(60 of which are carcinogenic)

8. Some consequences of
smoking

9. Smoking
Stroke
Stomach
Cancer Throat
Cancer
Emphysema
Heart
Disease
Bladder
Cancer

10. But what does these
things really look like?
How do these images
make you feel?

13. How to quit
Set a quit date.
Tell family, friends that you plan to quit.
Anticipate & plan for the challenges you’ll
face while quitting.
Remove cigarettes & tobacco from your
home, car & work place.
Talk to your Dr. about getting help to quit.

14. There’s hope……
People can and do quit smoking