Meet Gwen Hannan, RNC, BSN, CTTS-M
Master Certified Tobacco Treatment Specialist
Southwestern Vermont Medical Center
Gwen's Factoids:
- I relapsed after 8 years of being quit! I puffed a miniature cigar and was hooked again! They are deadly and have lots of nicotine.
- Each cigarette takes 7 minutes off you life. Quit now and get your 7 plus minutes back!
- Did you know that your body's Hemoglobin has 220 times the affinity for Carbon Monoxide than it does for Oxygen? So, when given puffs of smoke; Oxygen in the body's circulation and tissues depletes quickly.
- Chemicals in cigarettes include ammonia, commonly used to clean toilets and arsenic, which is rat poison.
- 80% of the population does NOT smoke!
- Smoking one cigar is the equivalent to smoking 10 cigarettes. Plus, cigar smokers inhale more then they think as they are up to 10 times more likely to suffer from cancer of the throat, larynx and esophagus than nonsmokers.
- The smoke exhaled from cigarettes hurts not only the smoker but people around them. Its called secondhand smoke and kills nearly 53,000 people every year!
- A new study shows that ex-smokers married to current smokers are at a 72% increased risk for stroke. This is because as an ex-smoker, your body is sensitized to the toxins and reacts more acutely.