By Amy Maybury

Orange Role number 2 Patient

By Amy Maybury

Back Ground Information Name: Amy Maybury Age:50 Smoker Since: 14 How Much I Smoke: 14 till 17 about half a pack 18 till today about a pack a day. 

Why I started: Grew up around smokes Friends started to smoke Thought it “looked cool” How many times I Quit: Three times when I was pegnant with my three children. 

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I do not think I was ever addicted to cigarettes. I think it is a bad habit not an addiction. I never really wanted to quit so I did not. Knowing that I have lung cancer I NEED and I want to quit! Yet some say addiction depends on the person. It might take one cigarette or it might take 100 to become “addicted”.

Types of cancer I am more likely to get • • • • • • • • • •

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Oral cavity cancer Pharynx cancer Larynx cancer Stomach cancer Kidney cancer Esophagus cancer Bladder cancer Cervix cancer Pancreas cancer Lung cancer

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90% of men who have lung cancer are smokers 80% of woman who have lung cancer are smokers Chances of getting cancer in cresses with ever cigarette I smoke and with very day I smoke. I am 12 times more likely to die from lung cancer when a non smoker is.

Effects of Second Hand Smoke Children

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Low Birth weight Smoking during pregnancy increases the chance that the baby will suffer SIDS (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome). Child is more likely to have asthma Child are more likely to suffer from eyes and nose irritation,

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3000 non smokers die from lung cancer each year because of ETS (Environme ntal Tobacco Smoke.) 35000 to 62000 people die from heart disease that is caused form ETS It has been showed that if a person is exposed

What Cigarette Smoke is Made Up Of. • •

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There are 4000 chemicals in cigarette smoke. There are 43 known cancer causing (carcinogenic) Compounds in cigarette smoke. Carcinogens in tobacco is the cancer causing agents. – It damages important cell growth genes – It causes the cells to reproduce too rapidly and grow abnormally

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There are 400 other toxins – Some are tar, cordon monoxide, nicotine, ammonia, formaldehyde, arsenic, and hydrogen cyanide 

Nicotine- Is the highly addictive substance that come from tobacco nautically. • Nicotine flows though the blood stem to get to the brain. • It takes nicotine about 10 to 15 seconds to get to the brain after is it inhaled. • Nicotine stays in side your body for about 60 minutes. • After six hour only 0.031mg of the 1mg of nicotine that you have inhaled is still in your body.

Effects that nicotine has on a body. • Nicotine cause an increase of adrenaline. That makes a person have a rapid heartbeat an increase of blood pressure and rapid/shallow breathing. • Nicotine blocks the release of the hormone, insulin, that makes your blood make up more glucose. This leads to smokers being some what hyperglycemic. •

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Basal metabolic rate might enlarge somewhat. This is why some people might think smoking makes you lose weight because more calories are burning as you smoke. After a while of smoking nicotine can boost the cholesterol that is bad,

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Nicotine works by settling in to the Acetylcholine receptors that usually bind to acetylcholine. – Acetylcholine: • “Delivers signals from your brain to your muscles • Controls basic functions like your energy level, the beating of your heart and how you breathe • Acts as a "traffic cop" overseeing the flow of information in your brain • Plays a role in learning and memory “ (Ann Meeker-O'Connell)

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Nicotine increase the release of acetylcholine, with improves time reaction and ability to pay attention. Nicotine stimulate these neurons that make people feel happy which makes people smoke more and more to became happy

Nicotine releases more glutamates –

Glutamate are involved with learning and

Quitting! How long it takes 

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• Depressi on • Anxiety • Irritability • Craving for nicotin e

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Symptoms shop in about a month for most people Millions of people try to quit year Only 10% of people succeed

References

1. http:// www.recipeapart.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/quit-smoking-1.jpg 2. http:// wpcontent.answers.com/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/34/Side_effecs_of 3. http://www.quitsmoking.com/images/nicotine/deaths.gif 4. http://www.theaccidentalexpert.com/im_tmp/99455cigarette_smoke.jpg 5. http://www.quitsmokingsupport.com/whatsinit.htm 6. http://www.cdc.gov/images/home/111708_smoke.gif 7. http://www.citizenjoe.org/files/images/smoking2.gif 8. http://kidshealth.org/teen/drug_alcohol/tobacco/smoking.html 9. http://www.americanheart.org/presenter.jhtml?identifier=4559 10.http:// quitsmoking.about.com/cs/secondhandsmoke/a/secondhandsmoke.htm 11.http://thescooponsmoking.org/xhtml/effects/lungCancer.php 12.http://quitsmoking.about.com/od/tobaccostatistics/a/cancerstats.htm 13.http://health.howstuffworks.com/nicotine2.htm 14.http://health.howstuffworks.com/nicotine3.htm

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