National Men's Health Week
June 10-16, 2013
National Men's Health Week will be celebrated June 10-16, 2013. Each year, during the week leading up to and including Father's Day, individuals, families, providers, communities and others work to heighten the awareness of preventable health problems, promote healthy living, and encourage early detection and treatment of disease among men and boys.
As you may know, tobacco use is the leading cause of preventable death in the United States. An estimated 1 out of 5 adults smoke cigarettes and it is more common among men (21.5%) than women (17.3%). According to the CDC, men who smoke increase their risk of dying from bronchitis by nearly 10 times, from emphysema by nearly 10 times, and from lung cancer by more than 22 times; and smoking triples middle-aged men's risk of dying from heart disease.
During National Men's Health Week, there is no better time to encourage the men in your life to think about quitting tobacco. Gulfcoast South AHEC offers FREE tobacco cessation services through our I Quit with AHEC Program. Click the image below to access our website.
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CDC Tobacco and Mental Illness
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More than 1 in 3 adults (36%) with a mental illness smoke cigarettes, compared with about 1 in 5 adults (21%) with no mental illness.
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About 3 of every 10 cigarettes (31%) smoked by adults are smoked by adults with mental illness.
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Nearly 1 in 5 adults (or 45.7 million adults) have some form of mental illness.*
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*For this report, mental illness is defined as a diagnosable mental, behavioral, or emotional disorder, other than a developmental or substance abuse disorder.
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