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 * Synthesis: researchers have reported that nearly one out of five recently diagnosed lung cancer patients continue smoking. They say it´s too late to quit smoking so they don´t bother. **


 * But smoking not only causes cancer, but appetite loss, fatigue, coughing up blood, pain and poor sleep, and also you could have breathing problems. **


 * If you know someone that smokes no matter what age help him or her to go to a specialist because they could stop smoking, and not only do that for that person but also for the people that person hangs out with because they are also affected and also do it to have a clean air for you and other people. **


 * You can find smokers everywhere but there are starting to put places like: **
 * ** restaurants **
 * ** bars **
 * ** clubs **
 * ** etc.. **
 * where smoking is absolutely prohibited. **
 * by:maria antonia **

**FINDING OUT **

** ¡ What kinds of resources might help? ** ¡ Where do we find them? ¡ How do we know the information is valid? ¡ Who is responsible for the information? ¡ What other information is there? ¡ What search words/approaches are most useful? ¡ What are we feeling at this phase about our inquiry? ¡ How can we deal with these feelings in ways that will enhance our success?

answers
1. -In books -Making interviews to experts -Making interviews to people who have experience in smoking - Making intervies to non-smokers -Doing surveys to see percentage of people that smoke -Research in articles <span style="color: #2bbad4; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">-Looking in web pages in the internet

<span style="color: #2bbad4; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">2. <span style="color: #2bbad4; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Books in Libraries <span style="color: #2bbad4; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">experts in hospitals or in their work place <span style="color: #2bbad4; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">non- smokers | School or at streets <span style="color: #2bbad4; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">smokers | <span style="color: #2bbad4; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">surveys at school <span style="color: #2bbad4; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">articles at libraries <span style="color: #2bbad4; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">internet at home or school

<span style="color: #2bbad4; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">3. <span style="color: #2bbad4; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">-In interviews we need to make sure we make it to people that we know are telling the true <span style="color: #2bbad4; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">-in surveys see if the answer is repited more than twice. <span style="color: #2bbad4; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">-In internet we need to see in many different pages and see if the information is practically the same <span style="color: #2bbad4; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">4. start to smoke, why,& where || Mariana ||  ||
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 * Survey to batch || friday || at what time does,teeenagers
 * Experiment || friday || Show how cigarrete affects your lungs || Veronica ||  ||
 * Miguels dad || sun || Why he smoked when young || Miguel ||  ||
 * Library visit || Thursday || Find out about smoke and air || maria antonia ||  ||
 * Expert visit(doctor) ||  || How smoking affects your body and people around you ||   ||   ||
 * Personal research ||  || answer the lines of inquiry and key question || Everyone ||   ||

<span style="color: #2bbad4; margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">F RIDAY, April 8 (HealthDay News) -- Many patients diagnosed with -- as well as their family -- continue to smoke even though doing so may jeopardize their recovery and long-term health outcome, says a study sponsored by the U.S. National Cancer Institute. <span style="color: #0a0b0a; margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Researchers report that nearly one in five recently diagnosed lung cancer patients continues to light up, which can make them feel guilty or socially stigmatized. <span style="color: #0a0b0a; margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">"The biggest obstacle is fatalism, the belief that it is too late to quit smoking so why bother," said Kathryn E. Weaver, study author and assistant professor of social sciences and health policy at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem, N.C. <span style="color: #0a0b0a; margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">"There are benefits to be gained by quitting that have important implications for survival, response to treatments, and quality of life," she said. <span style="color: #0a0b0a; margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">The findings point to the need for family support, counseling and medication to help patients and/or family caregivers overcome their addiction and adopt healthy lifestyle choices, said Weaver. <span style="color: #0a0b0a; margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">The study was recently published in //Cancer, Biomarkers & Prevention//. <span style="color: #0a0b0a; margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">The researchers looked at 742 cancer patients and caregivers at multiple sites and found that 18 percent of smokers with lung cancer failed to quit after their diagnosis. Smoking is the leading cause of lung cancer. <span style="color: #0a0b0a; margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Among a subset of smokers with colorectal cancer, which is not strongly associated with tobacco use, 12 percent of the patients continued smoking. <span style="color: #0a0b0a; margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">An even higher proportion of the patients' family caregivers also kept on smoking -- 25 percent of those caring for lung cancer patients and 20 percent of those caring for colorectal cancer patients, the researchers found. <span style="color: #0a0b0a; margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Most of the caregivers were middle-aged females and were often spouses of the patients. In some cases, both the patient and the caregiver continued smoking. <span style="color: #0a0b0a; margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">If family caregivers see the cancer patient quit, they're more likely to quit themselves, Weaver said. But if either the patient or caregiver continues to smoke, it can trigger issues of guilt, stigma or blame, she added. <span style="color: #0a0b0a; margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Continued smoking increases the likelihood of developing a and can interfere with treatment, the researchers say. <span style="color: #0a0b0a; margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Another clinical reason to, said Dr. Norman H. Edelman, chief medical officer of the American Lung Association, is that chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder usually accompanies lung cancer, making it more difficult to breathe. Continued smoking exacerbates COPD, he said. <span style="color: #0a0b0a; margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Also, research has suggested that nicotine may be a co-promoter in generating lung cancer, so continual exposure to nicotine might work against treatments, Edelman said. <span style="color: #0a0b0a; margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Given that more than 80 percent of some 200,000 lung cancer cases diagnosed annually in the United States are smoking-related, he said the complex dynamics of why so many smokers don't quit needs to be better understood. <span style="color: #0a0b0a; margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Even patients highly motivated to stop for good often need substantial support, he added. <span style="color: #0a0b0a; margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Weaver said the stressful period following diagnosis of lung cancer can create a "teachable moment" for physicians, nurses and other health care professionals to discuss with the patient and family members, and offer encouragement and resources to quit. <span style="color: #0a0b0a; margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">"My long term goal is to develop more effective interventions that can be delivered in the oncology setting, said Weaver. <span style="color: #0a0b0a; margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Janine Cataldo, an assistant professor and researcher in physiological nursing and gerontology at the University of California San Francisco, is developing tools that measure the quality of life and impact of social stigma on lung cancer patients who continue smoking. <span style="color: #0a0b0a; margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">"For a smoker to have lung cancer and be unable to quit speaks to the power of ," said Cataldo. The average lung cancer patient is 55 years old and typically has tried and failed to quit smoking several times, she added. <span style="color: #0a0b0a; margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Continued smoking has serious repercussions for lung cancer patients, she said. Patients may develop appetite loss, fatigue, cough or coughing up of blood, pain and poor sleep, said Cataldo. Self-esteem suffers too, and and depression may also develop, she said. <span style="color: #0a0b0a; margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Cataldo is developing a six-month intervention that on three key components: nicotine replacement therapy to ease withdrawal symptoms; a computerized calling system for monthly phone counseling and weekly follow-up; and creation of a smoke-free home environment. <span style="color: #0a0b0a; margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">"The immediate benefits of quitting smoking are easier breathing, increased circulation and improved efficacy of ," said Cataldo. "People find that once they quit, they have an increased joy of life, no matter how much they believed in the myth that they would miss cigarettes."

Read more: [] Healthline.com - Connect to Better Health

mariana betancourt

__THIS ARE THE THINGS WE HAVE USED TO FIND INFORMATION OF OUR TOPIC:__

= __survey to batch:__  = in this survey we find out that many teenagers smoke and they don't care it is bad for health.We also learned that the majority of the people that smoke are influenced by their friends and they start to smoke on parties. This survey helped us to find out the percentage of people that smoke in batch.

= __interview:__ = In the interview to veronica's father we find out the point of view of an no smoker about our topic.

= __experiment:__ = with the experiment we find out what are the effects that can make a cigarette in the lungs.

= __brochures and books:__ = with the brochures and the books we find out what was passive smoking and what were the effects on the body if you smoke.

= __youtube:__ = with youtube we find out why people smoke, what deseases can produce the smoking and how can smoking affect the community.

= __google:__ = with google we find out what are the rights of the non smokers, what do the government think about smoking, how does smoking affects the community, what can happen in youre body if you smoke and information of cases of people that have smoke.

Miguel pombo 22/05/2011

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