Quit Smoking Speech
Introduction
Attention Getter: 390,000 people died last year. Each one
of them spending an estimated 1,100 dollars a year on their deaths. In
twenty-five years each person could have had an estimated 28,000 dollars of free
spending money. Smoking is the root of the problem.
Appeal to Audience:
Weather you smoke or not it affects everyone in this room. You can be affected
by either getting taxed for the medical bills or as simple as second hand
smoke.
Thesis Statement: Everyone must quit smoking.
Preview: Your
going to hear about Tobacco, second hand smoke, quitting smoking, ways of
quitting, on the day you quit, withdrawal symptoms.
Transition to body:
These are the facts about smoking
BODY
I. Tobacco
A. Dried
leaves and stems
B. Nicotinia Tabacum
1. Native to North
America
2. Now grown around the world
C. Contains the drug
nicotine
1. Powerful nerve stimulant
2. Extremely toxic
i.
Three drops could kill a person
ii. Most addictive drug in
existence
D. 50 million Americans smoke
1. Consume 540 billion
cigarettes each year
E. 300 known poisons
1. Arsenic
2.
Cyanide
3. Carbon monoxide
4. Formaldehyde
F. 30% of cancer
deaths are liked to smoking
1. Mostly lung cancer
2.
Larynx
3. Oral cavity
4. Esophagus
5. Bladder
6.
Kidney
7. Pancreas
8. Stomach Second-hand smoke
Transition:
Not only are you hurting yourself, but others around you.
II Second-hand
smoke
A. Nations number 1 air pollution
1. Killing more people
than any other air pollution combined
2. Lung cancer in healthy
non-smokers
3. Children grow up with respiratory problems
i. Miss
three days of school a year
ii. Seven weeks in twelve years
iii. Lose
their sense of smell up to 20%
Transition: It’s actually realistic to
give all of this up.
III Quitting smoking
A. Preparing yourself
for quitting
1. Decide that you want to quit
2. List reasons for
quitting
3. Begin to condition yourself
4. Set a date to
quit
5. Have realistic expectations
6. understand withdrawal
symptoms are temporary
7. Involve someone else
B Ways of
quitting
1. Switch brands
2. Cut down on the number of
smokes
3. Smoke only half
4. Wait one hour before your first
smoke
C On the day you quit
1. Toss all cigarettes
2. Buy
something with the left over money
3. Spend time where you can’t
smoke
4. Drink lots of water
5. Avoid Alcohol
6. Call
someone instead of smoking
7. Chew a toothpick
8. Associate with
nonsmokers
9. Analyze cigarette ads
10. Do things that require use
of hands
11. Brush your teeth
12. Get plenty of rest
13.
Chew sunflower seeds
14. Take a bath
15. Light incense
D.
Withdrawal symptoms
1. Dry mouth
2. Headaches
3. Trouble
sleeping
4. Hungry
5. Tenseness
6.
Coughing
Transition: Succeed, and make your self feel
better.
Conclusion
After I have gone through what tobacco is,
second hand smoke, quitting smoking, ways of quitting, on the day you quit, and
withdrawal symptoms everyone needs to go and take action on this
problem.
Everyone must quit smoking.
Everyone knows who smokes.
Present these ideas to them or yourself. By not smoking you can make yourself
and others feel delighted and in control.
Bibliography
WORKS
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http://www.hotecno.com/book43.htm
http://www.drugs.indiana.edu/publications/iprc/factline/tobac.html
http://www.thetruth.com/coverstories/may00/flash/index.cfm
http://www.quitnet.org/qn_main.jtml
http://www.tobacco.org/
http://www.committedquitters.com/
http://www.erowid.org/plants/show_image.php3?image=tobacco/nicotiana_tabacum4.jpg