...the biggest health problems seen throughout the United States. It is estimated that cigarette smoking contributes to around 450,000 deaths every year and cost the U.S. $193 billion annually in direct medical expenses and lost productivity (Porter 2013). Cigarette smoking is an addictive habit and for the majority of smokers is very hard to quit, especially by themselves. It is difficult if one is a non-smoker to grasp and understand the dynamics of the addiction and successful quitting usually requires a significant amount of assistance and support. Nurse practitioners are there to provide professional assistance by helping patients take the appropriate steps and measures to ensure their success in smoking cessation. Difficulty of Smoking Cessation In general, most people who smoke know smoking is bad for their health and can contribute to many other health problems and even death, so why can’t they just quit? If it were that easy there would be significantly less smokers in this country. The problem is not the desire to quit but rather the actual act of stoping smoking for good. The fact of reality is there are plenty of smokers out there who want to quit but just can’t due to the complexity and addictive nature of the habit. The three main components of tobacco smoke include; tar, carbon monoxide and nicotine (McEwen 2014). Most of the health issues that arise from smoking cigarettes are directly linked to tar and carbon monoxide components. Cancers, chronic obstructive...
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...for changing his or her circumstances. In this case, Amanda wants help, so as part of her support system, finding the appropriate recovery program for her will be crucial. Besides the pain medication, drinking alcohol and smoking cigarettes are extremely risky combination. Though it may seem impractical to quit smoking and to stop drinking at the same; Axia College (2010) states that, studies reveal that undergoing treatment for nicotine and alcohol addiction at the same time helps alcoholics to kick the smoking habit. This means that it is possible Amanda can receive treatment to address each aspect of her addiction simultaneously. Few factors that will make the recovery process more difficult for Amanda may have to do with her history with depression that may cause her to turn to alcohol and cigarettes to cope, and her current dependence on painkillers for her back injury. Not finding alternate ways to address these problems could cause her major set-backs. Substance abuse affects men and women differently, and women seem to be more susceptible to the effects of alcohol and nicotine. Axia College (2010) held that, women are more vulnerable to the effects of cigarettes and alcohol; every cigarette a female smokes is roughly equivalent to two cigarettes smoked by a male. For example, even with the same level of exposure to cigarettes, women have higher rates of addiction than men...
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...The Electronic Cigarette, a healthy alternative Tacita Elliott English composition II National American University Abstract The Electronic Cigarette has become a popular in the recent years as a healthy alternative to the tobacco smoker. The newer vapor style electronic cigarettes allow the normal tobacco smoker to have a healthier alternative to smoking cigarettes when trying to acquire their nicotine. Being the newer product out on the market in the refined versions of vapor liquid you can find today, there are many health questions that linger in people’s mind, some of which include but are not limited to, what do the doctors say? Is this FDA approved? How does this compare to the tobacco that is in an everyday cigarette? Is this lifestyle choice a change that I want to do? In this paper you can read several answers to these questions and having that knowledge you can go forward to understand more about how the electronic cigarette can affect you in positive and negative ways. There is a new discovery that is sweeping the nation in the recent years; the healthy substitute for cigarettes, the electronic cigarette. The electronic cigarette or the “e-cigarette” is becoming more and more known throughout the smoker community as a healthier substitute for one who is addicted to nicotine. The electronic cigarette takes out the harmful tar and other harmful aspects of tobacco and delivers the nicotine though a vapor to the smoker. Though smoking in general is bad for your...
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...The Electronic Cigarette By Sergio Gaxiola Composition I Professor Frawley 13 August 2012 The Electronic Cigarette It is estimated that 400,000 deaths will occur this year in the United States from cigarette smoking. This gruesome statistic tells us that with illegal drugs, alcohol, motor vehicle, suicides and murders combined; cigarette smoking is still the number one contributor. In 1963, Herbert A. Gilbert was not aware of these kinds of statistics, however, he was on the brink of an invention that would revolutionize the way we smoke cigarettes almost fifty years later. The invention of the Electronic Cigarette [also known as the e-cig] was patented in 1963 by Herbert A. Gilbert, “The present invention relates to a smokeless non-tobacco cigarette and has for an object to provide a safe and harmless means for and method of smoking by replacing burning tobacco and paper with heated, moist, flavored air; or by inhaling warm medication into the lungs in case of a respiratory ailment under direction of a physician.” (Electronic Cigarettes, 2009) Unfortunately for Herbert, in the early 1960s cigarette smoking was not yet the threat it has become today. People just didn’t see a need to stop smoking. During the 1950s and 1960s, the Tobacco Company had always marketed towards women; smoking was a sexy thing. As one can see from the photograph, the young lady is beautiful, slender and happy. Throughout the middle of the 1960s big Tobacco Company’s began...
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... 8 IX. Online Marketing Strategy 8 * Keyword Strategy 10 * Search Engine Optimization Strategy 10 * Paid Online Advertising Strategy 10 * Social Media Strategy 10 X. Referral Strategy XI. Financial Projection XII. Conclusion EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Electronic cigarettes or e-cigarettes are the most popular form of electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS) that take the form and shape of a cigarette but are operated by a battery and involve heating a concoction of chemicals, usually called e-liquid or e-juice, to produce a...
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...resolution supporting the implementation of a Smoke-Free Policy on the Ole Miss campus. With such campus wide support evident, Chancellor Dan Jones asked Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs Larry Ridgeway to call together a “Smoke-Free Campus Policy Implementation Committee”. The committee convened for the first time on May 7, 2012 and met regularly throughout that summer. By the end of July 2012, the committee had refined the policy to its current form and presented it to the Chancellor for approval, which was received. The University’s new Smoke-Free Policy began with soft implementation on August 1, 2012, without citations for infractions, and included an aggressive public information campaign as well as introducing cessation support programs for...
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...Robert Hunter Hardin 7/13/13 WRIT 101: Argument Essay The University Of Mississippi Smoking Ban In the fall of 2007, the University of Mississippi adopted the “Tobacco Use Policy”. This policy was designed to limit the use of tobacco products on the Ole Miss campus to “designated tobacco-use areas.” It became evident over time that the policy was not effective and added to the growing concerns on campus over continuing exposure to second hand smoke. This led to discussions between students and faculty and staff alike about becoming a smoke free campus. In the early fall of 2011, the Vice Chancellor’s Office for Student Affairs began to solicit feedback from various constituencies on campus to determine whether or not there was broad support for such an effort. During the following fall semester, a proposal for a smoke-free campus received support from the Provost’s Office, the Academic Deans, all 14 departments within the Division of Student Affairs, The Executive Director of the Alumni Association, the ASB Senate, and the ASB President. In the spring of 2012, the proposal received support from the Faculty Senate and the Staff Council. During the spring semester, the ASB Senate passed a formal resolution supporting the implementation of a Smoke-Free Policy on the Ole Miss campus. With such campus wide support evident, Chancellor Dan Jones asked Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs Larry Ridgeway to call together a “Smoke-Free Campus Policy Implementation Committee”. The committee...
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...Smoking Disease in Native Americans Smoking Disease in Native Americans Smoking cigarettes is a very dangerous habit and according to the American Psychological Association (APA) is highly addictive. Because smoking is such an addictive habit most people consider it a disease on its own. Although this is a universal known fact, people still choose to smoke. “Nicotine is the ingredient in cigarettes that causes addiction. Smokers not only become physically addicted to nicotine; they also link smoking with many social activities, making smoking an, extremely difficult addiction to break” (The American Lung Association, 2011). Smoking is also related to many health problems especially respiratory diseases such as lung cancer and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). They also relate smoking with relaxation and as a stress reliever, but there is nothing positive about this nasty habit. Even though some say smoking helps them to relax, they need to stop smoking for their health because smoking is the cause of many health problems. According to the Center for Disease Control (CDC), “the percentage of American adults who smoke decreased from 20.9 percent in 2005 to 19.3 percent in 2010. That translates to three million fewer smokers than there would have been with no decline. But almost one in five adults still smoke” (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2011. P. 1). Based on a national health survey conducted in 2010 of the three million of...
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...Introduction “Smoking is the leading preventable cause of death in the United States,” (“Health Effects of Cigarette Smoking”, 2014, para.2). Each year it is responsible for 480,000 deaths, which is more than Human Immunodeficiency Virus, illegal drug use, alcohol use, motor vehicle injuries, and fire arm related incidents combined. There have been ten times more premature deaths due to tobacco use than casualties during all noted American wars in United States history (“Health Effects of Cigarette Smoking”, 2014, para.2). Use of tobacco products causes cancer of the nose, mouth, larynx, trachea, esophagus, throat, lungs, liver, stomach, pancreas, kidneys, bladder, cervix, bone marrow, blood, colon, and rectum (“Health Effects of Cigarette Smoking”, 2014, para.6). “Globally, it is estimated that cervical cancer is responsible for 2.7 million years of lost life, and at least 75 percent of head and neck cancers are caused by tobacco and alcohol use.” (Lamb, Dawson, Gagan, & Peddie, 2013, p. 25; National Cancer Institute at the National Institutes of Health, 2013, para. 11). These are only two frightening cancer statistics caused by tobacco from the previously stated list. It is imperative to understand the repercussions of using tobacco products so patients do not become another one of these statistics, but it is more important to explain the positive results of abstaining from those products to encourage greater chances of successful cessation of tobacco use. In this research...
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...smoking, and programs that help. There are plenty of reasons people should quit smoking. For on it smells real bad on your clothes, in your hair, and last but not least your breath. Also your health is a real big factor in quitting smoking. Smoking cessation can lower the risks of lung cancer and other kinds of cancer. Also tobacco smoke contains more than 7,000 deadly chemicals; which hundreds are toxic, and about seventy can cause cancer. Another big thing is Smoking cessation reduces the risk of you getting chronic obstructive pulmonary disease also known as (COPD) which is the leading causes of death among people that smoke. Health benefits are greater if you quit at a young age but all ages can get benefits from stopping smoking. Some people say “Well there is no methods for quitting smoking” that’s crazy. There are plenty of methods to quit smoking such as brief clinical interventions, which a doctor will talk to you in ten minutes or less about the benefits of quitting. Also there is person to person treatments, which are one on one with a family member or someone trying to help you quit for a long period of time. Medications are there to help the people that are having a hard time with the other methods. You have over the counter medications, and prescription medications by which your doctor will prescribe. Some over the counter medications consist of the patches, and gum. Also the electronic cigarettes are a good way to help you quit. There are programs around that...
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...or electronic communication makes up a great deal of world’s communication. The reasons behind that leap from written and hardcopy to softcopy communications has to do with technological advances and the speed in which individuals and businesses can now communicate accurately. The electronic media that surrounds the average consumer consists of television commercials, e-mail advertisements, Internet stores, paying bills and banking online, blogs, social sites, business ventures, and many other forms of electronic communication are taking over the way the world communicates. This paper will discuss E-mails importance, present three business-to-business messages taken from the text-book, analyze them and provide a message from ABC and an unfavorable reply XYZ Company sent. E-mails can be sent as a letter, memo, or as a document with an attachment. The convenience of e-mails is that the business has the option to send the message to one receiver or to multiple receivers simultaneously. The best thing about companies conducting business through e-mail is that the company will have a written record of the information sent. E-mail also allows a company to transmit complex information fast and conveniently in a matter of minutes across the world. In a descriptive analysis of the e-mail, an individual has multiple options to design the message in which he wishes to send. Analyzing message on Tobacco-free work facility This message was sent to stress out the risks of cigarettes in...
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...PPRODUCTS There is no safe form of tobacco use. All forms contain nicotine and can cause addiction and health problems. Mainly two types smoking and smokeless tobacco 1. Smoking tobacco https://youtu.be/c6Ul9QIfBno Cigarettes Bidis Cigars, Cigarillos and Little Cigars Electronic cigarette or E- cigarette (nicotine delivery system) Hookah Pipe 2. Smokeless Tobacco * is not burned * Includes tobacco that can be sucked or chewed1 * Can be spit or swallowed, depending on the product1 * Can be spit less, depending on the product2 * Contains nicotine and is addictive1 * May appeal to youth because it comes in flavors such as cinnamon, berry, vanilla, and apple3,4 Types of smokeless tobacco: * Chewing tobacco (loose leaf, plug, or twist and may come in flavors)1 * Snuff (moist, dry, or in packets [U.S. snus]) * Dissolvable (lozenges, sticks, strips, orbs) Tobacco Facts and Figures Smoking * Harms nearly every organ of the body * Causes many diseases and reduces the health of smokers in general * Nearly 18 of every 100 U.S. adults aged 18 years or older (17.8%) currently smoke cigarettes. This means an estimated 42.1 million adults in the United States currently smoke cigarettes.1 * Cigarette smoking is the leading cause of preventable disease and death in the United States, accounting for more than 480,000 deaths every year, or 1 of every 5 deaths.2 * More than 16...
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...Smoke-Free Ontario Strategy Evaluation Report Ontario Tobacco Research Unit November 2012 Smoke-Free Ontario Strategy Evaluation Report Suggested Citation: Ontario Tobacco Research Unit. Smoke-Free Ontario Strategy Evaluation Report. Toronto: Ontario Tobacco Research Unit, Special Report, November 2012. Ontario Tobacco Research Unit ii Smoke-Free Ontario Strategy Evaluation Report Acknowledgements Many people were involved in the preparation of this report. Key authors are Robert Schwartz, Shawn O’Connor, Alexey Babayan, Maritt Kirst, and Jolene Dubray. Marilyn Pope, David Ip, Pamela Kaufman, and Marian Smith provided editorial comments on an earlier draft and Sonja Johnston provided production assistance. The interpretation and opinions expressed in this report are the responsibility of the Principal Investigators of the Ontario Tobacco Research Unit (OTRU): Susan Bondy, University of Toronto K. Stephen Brown, University of Waterloo Joanna Cohen, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, University of Toronto Roberta Ferrence, University of Toronto, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health John M. Garcia, University of Waterloo Paul McDonald, University of Waterloo Robert Schwartz, University of Toronto, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health Peter Selby, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, University of Toronto Ontario Tobacco Research Unit iii Smoke-Free Ontario Strategy Evaluation Report Table of Contents Acknowledgements...
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...non-smokers who breathe in secondhand smoke take in nicotine and other toxic chemicals just like smokers do. It’s surprisingly unbelievable, that the health risks I would get from secondhand smoke are the same with the actual smokers. Some say it’s even harmful for the secondhand smokers than the actual ones. Smokers are everywhere. Indeed, I have friends who smoke. Everytime I'm with them, I want to tell them to stop smoking since I know it's not only their health that are being put at risk. They told me it's hard to stop smoking once you've started doing it. I'm bit curious about their answers. Is it that hard? I wonder if they care about the people around them who's affected by their wrongdoings. And as a non smoker, I’ve been exposed to other people’s cigarette smoke at many times. I feel a little of anger to smokers because I can still remember the words of my teacher. Knowing that my health is at risk just because of other people wrongdoings is alarming. As I want myself to stop them to smoke, I just can’t. It’s ironic how I seem to be ashamed to ask smokers to stop smoking in front of me, when in fact it is my health that is being put at risk. So when it comes to voicing aversion to secondhand smoke, hesitation is always at bound. It’s good if all are aware of its fearful effects, for prevention to take place. But how about those who are not? My knowledge about secondhand smoking...
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...Technology Diminishing Addiction There are millions of people in the United States that are addicted to smoking. There are more than 480,000 deaths per year in the United States due to smoking (Smoking & Tobacco Use). This addictive passtime is due to one of the major components of cigarettes, nicotine. According to the Addiction Center, a website educating and offering the public help with addiction, explains, “Nicotine is a highly addictive substance found in tobacco products. There are approximately 50 million people in America who are addicted to some type of tobacco product, including cigarettes, cigars, chewing tobacco and snuff” (Addiction Center). As this becomes an increasing problem in the US, there needs to be a change in the methods...
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