Smoking and Your Lungs

1. Smoking and Your Lungs

2. Human Respiratory System • The human respiratory system consists of nasal passages, pharynx. larynx, trachea, bronchi, bronchioles, alveoli and lungs. • It is designed to bring fresh oxygen in and exchange it for carbon dioxide which is then removed from the body.

3. Healthy Lungs • These photos show the lungs of a healthy individual.

4. Smokers Lungs • These photos show the lungs of a smoker.

5. Can you see a difference?

6. Effects of Smoking Tobacco • The next few slides will outline for you how smoking tobacco can harm your lungs. • It will explain the effect of smoking on specific parts of your respiratory system.

7. How Smoking Hurts Your Lungs • Smoking will damage your lung’s natural ability to clean and repair themselves. • This means cancer causing chemicals will be trapped in the tissues of your lungs. • This is because the cilia and mucus lining are damaged an cannot remove the chemicals

8. How Smoking Hurts Your Lungs • Smoking will permanently damage the alveoli and make it very difficult to breathe. • The smoke reduces the ability of the alveoli to stretch which makes it hard for you to take in oxygen.

9. Signs of Lung Damage from Smoking • Feeling out of breath when walking up a short flight of stairs. • Coughing (smokers cough) • Spitting up mucus • Reoccurring chest infections

10. Other side effects of smoking • Can lead to health problems such as heart disease, stroke, emphysema, and COPD. • Smoking can lead to many types of cancer including lung, throat, stomach, and bladder cancer. • Increased risk of osteoporosis, pneumonia and bronchitis. • Can cause fertility problems.

11. Other side effects of smoking • Unhealthy skin – smoking can prevent oxygen and nutrients from getting to the skin which causes wrinkles. • Yellow teeth and Bad breath – persistent bad breath known as halitosis. • Hair and clothes smell bad • Reduced athletic performance • Increased risk of illness.

12. What causes all the damage? • The following slide is a list of some of the chemicals found in cigarettes. • There are over 4000 chemicals in cigarettes and many of them are known causes of cancer!

13. Chemicals in Cigarettes! • Carbon monoxide (found in car exhaust) • Arsenic (rat poison) • Ammonia (found in window cleaner) • Acetone (found in nail polish remover) • Hydrogen cyanide (gas chamber poison) • Napthalene (found in moth balls) • Sulphur compounds (found in matches) • Lead • Volatile alcohol • Formaldehyde (used as an embalming fluid) • Butane (lighter fluid)

15. What about nicotine? • Nicotine is a drug found in tobacco plants. • It is a lethal poison and it can kill a person in less than an hour if it is injected into the bloodstream. • Each cigarette contains very tiny amounts of nicotine that over time cause you to become addicted to cigarettes and causes many health problems.

16. Kicking the habit • If you are a smoker it is never to late to quit. • Although some damage is permanent people who quit will notice a significant difference in their health issues. • There is help if you need it!