What s in a cigarette? This is because of the dangerous poisons (chemicals) that are in cigarettes.

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1 your heath What s in a cigarette? Smoking causes many heath probems for smokers and peope around them. This is because of the dangerous poisons (chemicas) that are in cigarettes. Cigarettes are mainy made up of eaves from a tobacco pant that has a very strong chemica in it caed nicotine. Nicotine is addictive and makes smokers want more (and more and more)! But cigarettes aso have about 7,000 other chemicas in them, and most of them are poisonous. These chemicas are aso used in things ike: insect spray toiet ceaner ighter fuid white-ant poison rocket fue paint stripper. Smoking cigarettes sends these poisonous chemicas into the body. These chemicas are too strong for the body. If you smoke them in a cigarette, your body has to fight them. YOUR HEALTH What s in a cigarette? Cigarettes are mainy made up of eaves from a tobacco pant that has a very strong chemica in it caed nicotine. Nicotine is addictive and makes smokers want more (and more and more)! But cigarettes aso contain about 7,000 dangerous poisons (chemicas). 19 Smoking cigarettes sends these poisonous chemicas into the body. These chemicas are too strong for the body, and the body has troube fi ghting them off.

2 your heath What s in a cigarette? Cigarettes are mainy made up of eaves from a tobacco pant that has a very strong chemica in it caed nicotine. Nicotine is addictive and makes smokers want more (and more and more)! But cigarettes aso contain about 7,000 dangerous poisons (chemicas). Smoking cigarettes sends these poisonous chemicas into the body. These chemicas are too strong for the body, and the body has troube fighting them off.

3 your heath Smoking and the body When peope smoke, the chemicas go through their mouth, into their ungs and get into their bood. Then the bood carries the chemicas to their brain, making them fee good and want more cigarettes. But the bood aso carries the chemicas from the cigarette a around the body, which changes the way it works. These are some of the things that can happen to the body: the smoke goes into the mouth here the chemicas can make the breath sme bad and stain teeth a yeow-brown coour if peope keep smoking for a ong time, this can give them gum disease, tooth oss and mouth cancer as the smoke moves into the throat it can give them more coughs and cods. After a ong time, they may get throat cancer. Smoking causes many other serious heath probems. These are described in other pages. YOUR HEALTH Smoking and the body Throat cancer Stained teeth Tooth oss Gum disease Mouth cancer 21 Chemicas from smoke get into the bood

4 your heath Smoking and the body Throat cancer Stained teeth Tooth oss Gum disease Mouth cancer Chemicas from smoke get into the bood

5 your heath Smoking and the ungs On the was inside the ungs, there are tiny itte hairs caed ciia. These hairs keep the ungs cean and protect them from dust, dirt and germs (ike a broom sweeping out the dirt and dust). Cigarette smoke kis the ciia and they cannot cean the ungs propery. This makes it harder to breathe. When this happens, mucus or phegm buids up and can bock the nose, throat and ungs. Because the ungs are weak, smokers can get infections ike pneumonia. They aso have other breathing probems ike a bad cough, wheezing and they can become short of breath. Sowy after years of smoking, the ungs have more and more probems working and can be damaged permanenty. This can cause inesses ike asthma or emphysema. When you breathe, fresh air carries oxygen into the ungs. The ungs then send the oxygen to the heart so the bood can carry it around the body. When the ungs are not working propery, there is not enough oxygen carried to the heart and to the rest of the body. This means the other organs wi not work propery. YOUR HEALTH Smoking and the ungs 23

6 your heath Smoking and the ungs

7 your heath Smoking and the heart and brain When peope smoke, the poisons from cigarettes get into the bood and it has troube carrying oxygen around the body. The body needs oxygen to survive. Smoking makes the heart work harder (beat faster) to pump bood and oxygen around the body. Then the organs don t get as much oxygen as they need to work propery and they can get sick. When the heart doesn t get enough oxygen and has to work harder, it gets weak. This can cause heart disease or a heart attack. Smoking can aso cut down the oxygen that gets to the brain, and this can cause a stroke. A stroke is ike a heart attack in the brain. A heart attack or stroke can eave someone with a permanent disabiity, or it can ki them. YOUR HEALTH Smoking and the heart and brain 25 Poisonous chemicas from smoking are carried by the bood to the heart and brain. This can cause heart disease, a heart attack or stroke. These things can permanenty damage or ki you.

8 yo u r h e a t h Smoking and the heart and brain Poisonous chemicas from smoking are carried by the bood to the heart and brain. This can cause heart disease, a heart attack or stroke. These things can permanenty damage or ki you.

9 your heath Smoking and cancer The chemicas from smoking can poison the body, and over time, can cause sma umps caed tumours to grow anywhere in the body. These tumours can spread around the body and can make peope very sick and eventuay ki them. These tumours are caed cancer. Many smokers die from cancer, especiay ung cancer. Other types of cancers you may hear of are: throat and mouth cancer pancreas cancer ovary and cervix cancer stomach cancer bone marrow cancer cancer of the kidneys, iver, badder and bowe breast cancer. If you smoke you are more ikey to get one or more of these cancers. YOUR HEALTH Smoking and cancer 27 Chemicas from smoking can cause sma umps caed tumours to grow anywhere in the body. These tumours are caed cancer and can spread around the body and make you very sick. They can even ki you. Many smokers die from cancer, especiay ung cancer.

10 your heath Smoking and cancer Chemicas from smoking can cause sma umps caed tumours to grow anywhere in the body. These tumours are caed cancer and can spread around the body and make you very sick. They can even ki you. Many smokers die from cancer, especiay ung cancer.

11 your heath Smoking and diabetes Aborigina and Torres Strait Isander peope have high rates of a disease caed type 2 diabetes. This type of diabetes happens when a chemica in the body caed insuin is out of baance. Insuin can get out of baance for many reasons. Some of the main ones are eating too much sugar or junk food, and not exercising enough. These things can make your insuin get out of baance and may cause diabetes. Smoking can aso make it easier to get diabetes because the chemicas in cigarettes change the bood sugar and the way insuin works in the body. When someone has diabetes, the body has troube getting energy from food. If you have diabetes and you smoke, it wi have a negative effect on your heath. You are more ikey to have a stroke or eye probems, and your kidneys may stop working. YOUR HEALTH Smoking and diabetes 29 Smoking can aso make it easier to get diabetes. If you have diabetes and smoke, smoking can make diabetes worse.

12 your heath Smoking and diabetes Smoking can aso make it easier to get diabetes. If you have diabetes and smoke, smoking can make diabetes worse.

13 your heath Men s heath Men who smoke are more ikey to: have a ow sperm count, which makes it harder to make a baby have probems getting an erection have seeping probems have a sore throat a the time get acid refux, which fees ike a burning in the chest grow ucers in their digestive system. Men wi be heathier and have heathier chidren and famiies if they do not smoke cigarettes. YOUR HEALTH Men s heath 31

14 your heath Men s heath

15 your heath Women s heath When women smoke: they may have troube getting pregnant if they take the contraceptive pi, they are more ikey to get heart disease. When pregnant women smoke: they are in danger of osing their baby (miscarriage) it hurts the baby the chemicas from the smoke go through the mother s body and into the baby s body their baby coud be born too eary or be born sick. Once the baby is born and the mother is sti smoking, many probems can sti happen ike: the baby can get sick a the time, especiay with ung infections and asthma the breast mik is not very good (poor quaity) the baby is at higher risk of dying from something caed Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS). YOUR HEALTH Women s heath 33 Women who smoke may have troube getting pregnant. If you smoke when you are pregnant, you can hurt the baby.

16 your heath Women s heath Women who smoke may have troube getting pregnant. If you smoke when you are pregnant, you can hurt the baby.

17 your heath Smoking and your ooks Smoking can change the way you ook. It can: stain your fingers a yeow-brown coour make your hair and cothes sme of cigarettes make your hair ose its natura shine (ook du) make your skin become wrinky, even if you are sti young make your ips get wrinkes around them from sucking on the cigarette make you ook oder than you are stain and damage your teeth. YOUR HEALTH Smoking and your ooks 35 Smoking makes you ook oder more quicky.

18 your heath Smoking and your ooks Smoking makes you ook oder more quicky.

19 your heath Smoking and menta heath Menta heath is about how peope think, fee and respond to the peope and situations they ive and work in. Just ike smoking can change the body, smoking can aso change a person s menta heath. Smokers may fee that smoking makes them fee better this is usuay because they are addicted to the cigarettes. But often after smoking for a ong time, smoking can make peope fee more depressed, angry and anxious. If they start to fee ike this, they may need to tak with a heath worker who can hep. Smoking can aso make someone with a menta heath probem fee worse. Smoking can affect the way some menta heath medicines work, so peope who smoke may need to take more medicine than they woud if they didn t smoke. If peope have to take more medicine for menta heath probems because they smoke, the side effects can aso become worse. For exampe, they may have probems controing the way their body moves. If you have a menta heath probem, it wi hep the probem if you don t smoke. YOUR HEALTH Smoking and menta heath 37 Smoking can make peope fee more depressed, angry and anxious.

20 your heath Smoking and menta heath Smoking can make peope fee more depressed, angry and anxious.

21 your heath Passive smoking Peope can get sick just from being around smokers. They don t even have to smoke! This is caed passive smoking. Of a of the peope who die from sickness caused by smoking, 1 out of 4 don t even smoke! This second-hand smoke comes from the burning end of a cigarette and from the smoke that the smoker bows out after inhaing. If peope are around smokers in a room or car where it is hard for the smoke to escape, they can inhae a that poisonous smoke. Chidren are in danger of becoming very sick if they are around smokers. This is because: they are breathing in and out a ot more than aduts do their ungs are sti growing they can t easiy move away from someone who is smoking the smoke from cigarettes gets into carpets, bankets, piows and foors and other things that chidren have a ot of contact with. Next time a smoker ights up a cigarette, ask them to move outside away from non-smokers and chidren. YOUR HEALTH Passive smoking 39 Peope can get sick just from being around smokers. They don t even have to smoke! Passive smoking can make chidren and babies sick.

22 your heath Passive smoking Peope can get sick just from being around smokers. They don t even have to smoke! Passive smoking can make chidren and babies sick.

23 your heath Getting better after quitting 41 As soon as you quit smoking, your body starts to recover straight away. Here are the good things that happen to the body from the day you stop smoking. After 12 hours: More oxygen starts to get to the heart and musces. If you are NOT using nicotine repacement therapy, amost a of the nicotine is out of the bood 12 hours after quitting smoking. After 1 week: The ungs fee better and begin to cean out the mucus, tar and dust. The bood wi aso become heathier and better at fighting germs. Your senses of taste and sme improve. After 2 months: The immune system wi get better. This means that the body wi find it easier to fight off common sicknesses ike the fu, cods and sores. The bood wi start moving through the body more easiy and hep the heart and other organs to work better. After 6 months: Exercise becomes easier as more air is getting into the ungs. After 1 year: The bood pressure goes back to norma and the risk of heart disease haves. After 5 years: There is much ess chance of having a heart attack or stroke. After 10 years: There is much ess chance of getting ung cancer. After 15 years: The risk of heart attack and stroke is now amost the same as a non-smoker s. If you can quit smoking and stay quit, your body wi have the chance to recover and become heathy again. After 12 hours After 2 months After 1 year After 10 years YOUR HEALTH Getting better after quitting After 1 week After 6 months After 5 years After 15 years

24 your heath Getting better after quitting After 12 hours Amost a nicotine is out of the bood More oxygen gets to heart and musces After 1 week Lungs fee better Bood is heathier Sense of sme improves After 2 months Immune system is better which heps to fight off cods and the fu Bood starts moving through the body and heps the heart and organs to work better After 6 months More air gets in the ungs Exercise gets easier After 1 year Bood pressure back to norma Risk of heart disease haves After 5 years Less chance of having a heart attack or stroke After 10 years Less chance of getting ung cancer After 15 years Risk of heart attack and stroke is amost the same as a non-smoker s

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