Tobacco Cessation PSA
November 04, 2020Tobacco Cessation PSA
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Hear from Margaret Antenucci, MS, MN, APRN on how you can quit smoking.
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- 00:06Smoking is an
- 00:07addiction. Tobacco is a drug.
- 00:09People become addicted to.
- 00:10It is the hardest addiction to quit.
- 00:13You have a physical dependence on
- 00:15the nicotine on the drug where
- 00:17your body will go into withdrawal
- 00:19when you don't have the drug.
- 00:26We have a 2 prong approach.
- 00:28On the one hand we use medication.
- 00:31There are different pharmaco
- 00:33therapies that can be used to help
- 00:36with quitting and on the other hand
- 00:38we also do a counseling service.
- 00:45It actually is one of the
- 00:47best things you can do for
- 00:49your outcomes in your cancer treatments.
- 00:51Everything goes better as a non smoker.
- 00:54You will have fewer side
- 00:56effects from the treatments.
- 00:57You will have better effect the
- 00:59chemotherapy, the radiation.
- 01:00It's all more effective as a non
- 01:03smoker and you will have if you
- 01:06have to have surgery your body will
- 01:08heal better as a result of not
- 01:10smoking and once you've gotten through
- 01:13your cancer treatments. It's one
- 01:14of the best things you can do to prevent
- 01:16a relapse or a recurrence of your cancer.
- 01:23I have worked with patients who
- 01:25have started an from the very
- 01:27beginning through Tele Health.
- 01:29Oftentimes it's telephone.
- 01:30We do video and we would like
- 01:32to work with people on video,
- 01:34but if it has to be telephone,
- 01:36we've started with people on the telephone.
- 01:39We've gone all the way through the
- 01:41counseling and working with the people
- 01:43and they've quit all some of them
- 01:45all over the telephone.
- 01:52It's never too late to quit.
- 01:54I've had people in their 70s who've
- 01:56quit after 50 years and tell me they
- 01:59wish they'd done it decades earlier
- 02:01because of how great they feel,
- 02:03so it's never too late to quit.
- 02:06The benefits are immediate and
- 02:08they accumulate overtime and
- 02:09you will feel the difference.