Smoking Cessation Resources Health Benefits After Cessation Florida’S 3 Ways to Quit • 20 Minutes Decreases in Heart Rate and 1

Tobacco Use Smokeless (Spit) Tobacco • Single greatest cause of preventable • There are at least 28 carcinogenic disease and premature death in the chemicals United States • 6.5% of American men aged 18 and older • 480,000 deaths each year due to are using these products smoking alone • 13.4% of male high school students and • Half of those who smoke will die 4.1% of male middle school students use prematurely smokeless tobacco • Smokers die an average of 10 years early • American cancer study found men who switched from cigarettes to smokeless Facts on Smoking tobacco, had higher death • Cigarette smoking is responsible for rates from heart disease and 1 in 5 deaths stroke than smokers who • 1 in 5 Americans use tobacco stopped products • Approximately 6,000 children and all together adolescents start smoking each day (1/2 become addicted) Third Hand Smoke—What is it? • Smoking related illnesses cost the nation “Third Hand” smoke refers to the cigarette $193 billion yearly byproducts that cling to smoker’s hair and • Each Floridian that quits saves the clothing as well as to household fabrics, state $3,530 carpets and surfaces—even after secondhand smoke has cleared. Doctors coined the Smoking Causes term to raise awareness about the danger • Cardiovascular Disease (CVD) these invisible tobacco toxins pose to small • Stroke children, who are especially susceptible • Peripheral vascular disease because they breath near, crawl on, play on, • Chronic obstructive pulmonary and touch and mouth contaminated surfaces. disease (COPD) • Abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) • Pneumonia • Multiple cancers

Information provided by Nemours Children’s Specialty Care, Jacksonville Division of Allergy/Immunology and Division of Pulmonology

Lawson #73673 Smoking Cessation Resources Health Benefits After Cessation Florida’s 3 Ways to Quit • 20 minutes decreases in heart rate and 1. Call: Florida Quit Line 1-877-U-CANNOW blood pressure 2. Click : Web Coach, www.quitnow.net/florida • 12 hours carbon monoxide levels 3. Class: Florida A.H.E.C Network decrease to normal • Within 9 months cough and shortness of Quit Line — 1-877-U-CAN-NOW breath decrease, cilia regain normal function • Toll-free number provided by the Florida • After 1 year risk of cardiovascular disease Department of Health is half of a smoker • 24/7 • After 5-15 years risk of stroke is reduced • Free Counseling sessions to that of a non-smoker • Counseling and materials in English and • After 10 years lung cancer is half of that Spanish of a smoker • Free NRT may be available • After 15 years risk of cardiovascular • Translation Services available disease is that of a non-smoker Tobacco Free Florida Big Bend AHEC Nicotine Replacement Therapy (NRT) Cessation Program and Non-Nicotine Pharmacotherapy 850-224-1177 (NNP) • NRT involves the use of products that provide low doses of nicotine • NNP uses medications to reduce cravings and withdrawal symptoms • Enables patients to feel physically comfortable and concentrate on other psychosocial elements • Doubles a smokers chance of quitting • NRT is safer than tobacco use

NRT & NNP– What’s available ? Nicotine Replacement Therapy • Nicotine Patches (OTC) • Nicotine Gum (OTC) • Nicotine Lozenge (OTC) • Nicotine Nasal Spray (RX) • Nicotine Inhaler (RX) Non-Nicotine Pharmacotherapy • Bupropion (Zyban or Wellbutrin) • Vaernicline (Chantix)