About This Course:
This course discusses several aspects of health effects of cigarette smoking.
The areas that will be covered in this course are:
~Cigarette Smoking Facts
~Smoking Causes Death
~Smokeless Tobacco
~Smokeless Tobacco and Cancer
~Smoking Causes Death
~Smoking and Cancer
~Millions of People Still Smoke
~No Safe Level of Smoking
~Why is it so Hard to Quit Smoking?
~Does Tobacco Smoke Contain Harmful Chemicals?
~Cigarette Health Warning
~Effects of Second Hand Smoke
~Health Benefits of Quitting Smoking
~What’s the Most Effective Way to Quit Smoking?
~Talk to Your Doctor
~Counseling and Support
~Set Your Quitting Date
~Quitting “Cold Turkey”
~Stop Smoking Medicine
~Nicotine Replacement Therapy (NRT)
~Zyban
~Cutting Down Gradually
~Friends and Family Support
~Start an Exercise Program
~Be Familiar with Your Triggers
~Benefits of Quitting Smoking
~Reward Yourself
~You Can be Smoke Free
Objectives:
After completing this course, learners will successfully be able to:
1. discuss the harmful effects of cigarette smoking
on the body.
2. discuss the harmful effects of second hand smoke.
3. identify the health benefits of quitting smoking.
There are several informative websites that you might find to be useful resources on health effects of cigarette smoking. These links can be found by clicking on the "External Links" button located on the left side button bar.