HESC 450 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Asthma, Varenicline, Smoking Cessation
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Text/transcript of lecture ch 7 (part 1, smoking) Tisnado: hi everyone, welcome back to health science 450. This week we"ll be talking about selected health topics including smoking, medication misuse, and other topics with significant health impacts for older adults. Tisnado: the list of diseases associated with smoking has grown considerably. These include just lung cancer, but many other cancers as well as many other conditions. More deaths occur from lung cancer than any other kind of cancer, yet lung cancer is rare among those who have never smoked. Smoking also accounts for the 60-80,000 deaths per year from copd, also known as emphysema. This disease affects 47 per 100,000 men and 36 per 100,000 women in the us, and is usually a long, protracted illness that can have a devastating impact on quality of life. Smoking not only increases the risk of developing many of these diseases, it also exacerbates (or worsens) many diseases.
