SMOKING

NORMAL RESPIRATORY SYSTEM

• Normal respiratory rate: 12-16 breaths per minute
• Average person takes between 17,000 to 23,000 breaths a day

CAUSE

• When you smoke cigarettes, many chemicals enter your body through your lungs. Burning tobacco produces more than 4,000 chemicals. Nicotin, carbon monoxide, and tars are some of these substances.
• Smoking just 1 to 4 cigarettes a day can increase the risk of dying from heart disease and all causes, like cancer.

DEVELOPMENT OF CONDITION

• Your lungs and airways get irritated and inflamed. Even one or two cigarettes cause irritation and coughing.
• The cells that produce mucus in your lungs and airways grow in size and number. As a result, the amount of mucus increases.
• Cigarette smoke has chemicals that can make normal cells change into cancer cells.

TREATMENT

• Quitting smoking is the single most important step a smoker can take to improve the length and quality life
• Nicotine patches or gum

PROGNOSIS

• Smokers who quit before age 50 have half the risk of dying in the next 15 years compared with those who continue to smoke.
• Quitting lowers the risk for other major diseases including coronary heart disease and cardiovascular disease.
• If you continue to smoke, there is a 1 out of 2 chance that you will die earlier because of smoking. Smokers, on average, die 13 to 14 years sooner than people like them who are not.

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WORKS CITED

• http://www.emedicinehealth.com/cigarette_smoking/page7_em.htm
• http://www.lung.org/stop-smoking/about-smoking/health-effects/