1. Keep Your Heart Healthy
Smoking and the heart

2. What smoking does to the heart Long term effects
Learning Points
What smoking does to the heart
Long term effects
Keeping your heart healthy
Explain what students will learn from this presentation.

3. What Smoking Does To The Heart
Smoking raises your blood pressure and puts stress on your heart.
Alarming Fact!
Even with treatment, 25 percent of men and 38 percent of women die within one year of a heart attack.
-Surgeon General’s Report, The Health Consequences of Smoking
Smoking makes your blood thick and sticky.
The stickier your blood, the harder your heart must work to move it around your body.
Highlights
Smoking makes the heart work more than usual
This additional work puts a strain on the heart’s ability to function properly
Sticky blood puts stress on your heart. It’s also more likely to form deadly blood clots that block blood flow to your heart, brain, and legs.

4. Nicotine makes the heart work harder and need more oxygen:
Heart rate increases
Blood pressure increases
Arteries narrow
Blood flow decreases

5. Heart Disease?
Heart disease and stroke are cardiovascular diseases caused by smoking. Heart disease causes 3 out of 10 deaths in America.
Examples:
High blood pressure
Coronary heart disease
Stroke
Congestive heart failure.
Highlights:
Cigarettes aren’t the only dangerous kind of tobacco. Even smokeless tobacco can lead to heart and blood vessel disease.

6. Long Term
Smoking increases the amount of cholesterol and unhealthy fats circulating in the blood.
This can lead to fatty deposits on the walls of the arteries that carry blood from the heart to the rest of the body.
Highlights
Atherosclerosis is the buildup of fatty substances in the arteries, and is a chief contributor to heart disease.

7. Over time, stress on the heart can weaken it, making it less able to pump oxygenated blood to other parts of your body.
Highlights
Since the heart has to work even harder, this increases the risk of heart attacks.

8. Benefits Of Quitting
Quitting can lower your blood pressure and heart rate almost immediately. Your risk of a heart attack declines within 24 hours.
Heart disease risk is 50% less one year after quitting and is nearly the same as someone who never smoked 15 years after quitting.
Highlights
Along with your heart and lungs, other smoke-damaged organs start to repair themselves. Your body starts getting better the day you put down the cigarettes.

9. Avoid smoking and using tobacco products.
Be physically active every day.
Eat a heart-healthy diet.
Keep a healthy weight.
Keep your blood pressure healthy.
Keep your total cholesterol healthy.
Keep your blood sugar healthy.
Highlights
Along with the large amount spent on medical bills due to tobacco, there are billions of dollars lost in productivity because of second hand smoke yearly.

10. Why Is It Important To Keep Our Hearts Healthy And Not Use Tobacco?
Lowered risk for lung cancer and many other types of cancer.
Reduced risk for heart disease, stroke, and peripheral vascular disease (narrowing of the blood vessels outside your heart).
Reduced heart disease risk within 1 to 2 years of quitting.
Reduced respiratory symptoms, such as coughing, wheezing, and shortness of breath.
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