Nicotine gum

immediate health benefits such as a decrease in blood pressure and decreased chances for a heart attack. Other benefits of stopping tobacco use include decreased risk of all the diseases and caners mentioned earlier. Treatments for tobacco use include nicotine replacement therapies (NRTs), pharmacological treatments, and behavioral interventions (NIH,…

designed to be a flavor filled unit with a water vapor inside to give a person the sensation of smoking without actually inhaling the tobacco itself. Rather than inhaling the nicotine from the smoking of traditional cigarettes, the electronic cigarettes are a battery operated product that delivers low amounts, if any, nicotine with a flavor so it smells better and taste better. Now that people have tried to quit smoking with the help of a vapor cigarette or e-cigarette as some call it, now the…

How long can you live? As we all know, cigarettes are bad, but do you really know how dangerous can it be? According to Dr. Mehmet Oz, over 443,000 people die from smoking cigarettes every year. You must be wondering now what is in cigarettes that can cause this huge number of deaths. Cigarettes contain more than 4,000 chemicals and the main ingredient is tobacco. Although the amount of tobacco in one cigarette is small, it is still very dangerous and can be deadly, but why do some people still…

Tobacco has a very negative impact on a user’s cholesterol, and with bad cholesterol comes heart disease or coronary artery disease in which both can be life-threatening. Furthermore, tobacco can lead to gum disease which involved symptoms such as bad breath, stained teeth, loss of taste and smell, mouth sores, and in some severe cases tooth loss. Lung diseases such as chronic bronchitis and chronic obstructive emphysema can cause people to become mentally…

General Goal: To Persuade Specific Purpose: To persuade my audience to stop smoking. Thesis Statement: The harmful effects smoking has on your body can be reversed if you stop smoking today. I. INTRODUCTION I. “I’m more proud of quitting smoking than of anything else I’ve done in my life, including winning an Oscar “, Christine Lahti. “I stopped smoking. When I stopped smoking, my voice changed….so drastically, I couldn’t believe it myself”, Bob Dylan. “Smoking Kills, If you’re killed, you’ve…

Everyone knows at least one person who smokes cigarettes. If not, then everyone has inhaled the foul odor of the toxic smoke leaving the addicts body. With nearly 42.1 million people in the United States smoking cigarettes, this addiction has become a problem to say the least. “For decades, the public health community in the United States has asserted that cigarette smoking is the most deadly epidemic of modern times” (Verheij 1). According to the National Institute of Drug Abuse, every one in…

Patient Condition: Amateur astronomer, Olga Bloomfield, is 38 years old with a history of hypertension and smoking. She has been a smoker since she was 18 and in the last 6 months, has experienced shortness of breath during exercise. She reports having a cough for a year which has worsened in the last 3 to 4 months and is now producing phlegm. For the last 20 years, she has had a habit of smoking 1 pack of cigarettes per day. Olga is also currently taking medication for her hypertension which…

Nowadays, people are at the risk of many diseases such as hypertension, diabetes, cancer and osteoarthritis (rrr, 99). This is mainly because of their sedentary life styles, unhealthy diet, smoking and air pollution (88, 00). Therefore, health promotion is extremely significant as it plays an important role in reducing the risks of disease in individuals throughout the world (u, 0). According to Cancer Research UK (2009), smoking is one of the modifiable risk factors of chronic disease such as…

The Obama administration has made nicotine use by kids a public health priority On american tobacco farms based on years research and interviews with 141 child tobacco workers ages seven to twenty seven in the country's four largest tobacco producing states include North Carolina, Kentucky…

Members of the American Cancer Society write that, “Overall, people who dip or chew get about the same amount of nicotine as regular smokers. They also get at least thirty chemicals that are known to cause cancer.” (ACS 2) With cancer from chewing tobacco often comes jaw removal, black gums and hairy tongue. Research done by Zohaib Khan of the US National Library of Medicine shows that smokeless tobacco use in South Asia is directly linked its increasingly…