smoking

1. Health promotion for smoking
Prepared by
Rezhin Muhammad
Helin Idrees

2. Objective
1. Define smoking .
2. Describe the main reason that people start smoking
3. Describe the effect of smoking in the body
4. Relation between smoking and lung cancer.
5. Describe control policies and some way to prevent
smoking as health promotion action.

3. Introduction
Smoking is a serious public health challenge across the world.
The tobacco use attributed to more than 5 million preventable
deaths every year globally.
And it is not only detrimental to personal health but also results in
sever societal costs. It is well recognized that the overall mortality
rates for cigarette smokers are 60-80%hiegher than for non
smokers.
Health promotion is pivotal in the drive to reduce the growing
burden of chronic disease world wide due to tobacco and
particular smoking, public education is an integral part of the
efforts to both prevent and encourage smoking cessation.

4. Why people start smoking ?
• Most people who smoke started smoking when they were teenagers.
Some teenagers say that they “just wanted to try it,” or they thought
it was “cool” to smoke.
• Some factors influence use of tobacco use
1. Market ads that show smoking as exciting, glamorous, and safe.
Tobacco use is also shown in video games, online, and on TV.
2. Movies showing people smoking are another big influence.
3. A newer influence on tobacco use is the e-cigarette and other high-
tech, fashionable electronic “vaping” devices.

6. Smoking and lung cancer
• Cigarette smoking is the number one risk factor for lung
cancer. In the United States, cigarette smoking is linked to
about 80% to 90% of lung cancer deaths.
• People who quit smoking have a lower risk of lung cancer
than if they had continued to smoke, but their risk is higher
than the risk for people who never smoked.

7. Many control policies have been implemented
as health promotion action include:
• Taxation of smoking
• Mass advertising campaigns in the media.
• Peer education programs.
• Community mobilization.
• Motivational interviewing.
• Health warnings on tobacco products.
• Marketing restrictions.
• Banning smoking in public places.

8. Some tip to reduce and prevent smoking
Try nicotine replacement therapy
Avoid triggers
Delay
Chew on it
Don’t have just one
Get physical
Remind yourself of the benefits include:
 Feeling better
 Getting healthier
 Saving money
 Sparing your loves ones from second hand smoke

9. Role of health care professions
• Advising them to quit
• Offering brief counseling
• Prescribing cessation medications
• Connecting them to additional resources, like a quit
line
• Following up with continued support to help
prevent relapse

10. References
• All American Hospice. 2021. Why Do People Smoke Cigarettes: Reasons for Start
Smoking. [online] Available at: <https://myallamericanhospice.com/people-smoke-
cigarettes/> [Accessed 12 December 2021].
• Cdc.gov. 2021. Smoking Cessation—The Role of Healthcare Professionals and Health
Systems. [online] Available at:
<https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/sgr/2020-smoking-cessation/fact-
sheets/healthcare-professionals-health-systems/index.html> [Accessed 12
December 2021].
• Snelling, A., 2014. Introduction to Health Promotion. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
• Lung.org. 2021. Quit Smoking. [online] Available at: <https://www.lung.org/quit-
smoking> [Accessed 13 December 2021].
• National Cancer Institute. 2021. Comprehensive Cancer Information. [online]
Available at: <https://www.cancer.gov/> [Accessed 13 December 2021].