Vitamin C plays an important role in smoking cessation by helping repair damage caused by smoking and reducing harmful effects. It protects blood vessels and prevents oxidative stress. Vitamin C levels are lower in smokers and it can help decrease risk of cancer and heart disease when quitting. Good sources of Vitamin C include citrus fruits, peppers and broccoli.

1. Stop Smoking with Vitamin C
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2. Introduction
• There is no doubt about the fact that Vitamin
C plays a pivotal role during smoking
cessation. The big question however is; how
exactly does Vitamin C help quit smoking? I
discuss the answer in this slide. Enjoy it!

3. What is Vitamin C?
• Vitamin C is an essential water-soluble vitamin
found in foods including fruits and vegetables.
It’s called a water-soluble vitamin because it
dissolves in water and cannot be stored in the
body. Unlike most animals and mammals,
human beings do not have the capacity to
create their own vitamin C. It must therefore
be obtained through our diet for the body to
gain access to it.

4. Rich Sources of Vitamin C
• Black Currant
• Kiwi Fruit
• Peppers
• Lemon
• Broccoli
• Sweet Lime
• Sweet potatoes

5. Rich Sources of Vitamin C(2)
• Guava
• Avocado
• Spinach
• Blackberry
• Cranberry
• Grape
• Mango
• Pawpaw

6. How is Vitamin C Beneficial to the
Body?
• Vitamin C, also known as ascorbic acid, is
beneficial to the body in many ways. It’s a
powerful antioxidant with progressively more
varied uses in health and well-being as well as
disease prevention.
• This was attested to by a recent study co-
ordinated by Mark Moyad, of the University of
Michigan and made available in Seminars in
Preventive and Alternative Medicine.

7. How is Vitamin C Beneficial to the
Body?(2)
• The study, which examined over 100 researches in the
space of 10 years, concluded that Vitamin C is useful in
defending our health, from cancer, cardiovascular
diseases, stroke, eye diseases and protection to live
longer and healthier.
• For starters, we require vitamin C for the maintenance
and formation of bones, skin and blood vessels. This is
because Vitamin C is involved in the formation of
Collagen, an important protein that joins the skeleton
in one piece, connecting bones to muscles and holding
organs in place. Collagen also helps to keep the skin
smooth and without wrinkles. Experts say collagen
makes up 1% to 2% of muscle tissue.

8. Fights Common Cold
• There is overwhelming evidence that Vitamin
C fights and prevents common cold. Since the
days of Linus Pauling, a double Nobel Prize
winner, who discovered that Vitamin C could
prevent and treat colds, till now, Vitamin C has
been indicated for the treatment and
prevention of common cold.

9. Improves Mood
• Recent research links vitamin C to an improved
mood. In a study of intensely hospitalized
patients that have vitamin C deficiency,
researchers observed an improvement in their
emotional state after they received vitamin C.
• Even though more research is needed to establish
this claim, it’s understandable that Vitamin C can
lead to an improved mood as people who have
Vitamin C deficit regularly feel exhausted or
dejected.

10. Prevents scurvy
• A lack of vitamin C in the daily diet can lead to
scurvy. Scurvy is a form of avitaminosis that is
characterized by surface bleeding, shaky
teeth, weak blood vessels, poor healing and
immunity as well as a mild form of anaemia.
Avitaminosis, according to Wikipedia, is “a
condition resulting from a deficiency of one or
more particular vitamins.”

11. Facilitates the Absorption of Iron
• Vitamin C is a water-soluble vitamin that is
utilized in many tissues of the body. It
facilitates the absorption of iron, a nutrient
required for the production of red blood
corpuscles and the movement of oxygen
throughout the body. It also helps in
regulating the body’s capacity to soak up,
convey, and stock up iron.

12. Helps in Fighting Cancer, Regulating
Diabetes and Asthma
• Vitamin C has also been indicated to assist in fighting
cancer, diabetes and asthma. This is attested to by Life
Extension Magazine which states matter-of-factly that
“additional research is discovering that vitamin C can
be helpful in preventing asthma, protecting against
cancer, and supporting healthy blood sugar levels in
diabetics.”
• It therefore urges that vitamin C be given a pride of
place in individual diets to perk up cardiac health and
avoid degenerative diseases or disorders (any disease
in which deterioration of structure or function of tissue
occurs).

13. Boosts Immunity
• Vitamin C leads the pack of immune
boosters. Immune boosters operate by
increasing the number of white cells in the body
and training them to fight better. Boosters also
assist to get rid of the dead cells in the immune
system as well as elements that drag the body
down. They (immune boosters) are able to
achieve this by stimulating the production of
disease-fighting white blood corpuscles and
antibodies, which prevent the entry of viruses or
illnesses into the body.

14. Prevents Cardiovascular Diseases
• Vitamin C also lessens the threat of
cardiovascular disease according to
the University of Maryland Medical Center.
Even though outcomes of scientific researches
on the role vitamin C plays in preventing heart
attack or stroke are diverse, the fact still
remains that Vitamin C plays a vital role in the
prevention of heart or cardiovascular diseases.

15. How Does Vitamin C Help Smokers?
• Smoking depletes the body’s supply of
Vitamin C even though it’s needed to repair
the damage caused by smoking. A research
even indicated that smokers have lower
amounts of vitamin C in their bodies than
non-smokers. The recommended daily dosage
is somehow controversial as it’s not unified
but the best thing is to talk to your doctor.

16. Vitamin C and Smokers
• Vitamin C has the capacity to decrease the
harmful effects of poisonous cigarette smoke. A
study conducted in year 2000 attests to this but
concludes that “whilst vitamin C might offer
protection against some of the detrimental
effects of occasional acute cigarette smoke
exposure, the possibility that it might benefit
chronic smokers, awaits investigation.”
• * Vitamin C is has also

17. Vitamin C and Smokers(2)
• Vitamin C is has also been indicated to protect
blood vessels, which might have become
damaged by years of smoking. Cigarette smoking
is identified as one of the causes of damage to
the blood vessels and this damage can lead to
stroke and heart disease. But scientists have been
working around the clock and discovered that
increasing the levels of vitamin C in the blood
might perk up function and capacity in blood
vessels that have been ravaged by years of
smoking.

18. Vitamin C and Smokers(3)
• Vitamin C prevents the oxidative stress or
damage occasioned by smoking and contact
with tobacco or cigarette smoke. Oxidative stress
occurs when the body has too many free radicals
and not enough antioxidants in the body.
• Free radicals are molecules produced by
the body to assist the metabolic processes, like
digestion and the conversion of food into usable
energy. Even though useful for natural processes,
an abundance of free radicals in the blood stream
can cause health problems.

19. Vitamin C and Smokers(4)
• Antioxidants, on the other hand, are used by the
body’s defense or immune system to reverse the
damage caused by free radicals.
• Cigarette smoking or tobacco-chewing, simultaneously,
accelerates the production of free radicals and the
depletion of vital antioxidants in the body. This is not
good for smokers as it leads to oxidative stress and
they are robbed of the health benefits of antioxidants.
This is said to be the reason smokers contact a whole
lot of diseases, including cardiovascular disease and
cancer.

20. Vitamin C and Smokers(5)
• If you know the benefits of exercise for
smoking cessation and have chosen to engage
in it as a substitute for your smoking
habit, Vitamin C will help you gain more from
exercise and decrease exercise-induced
oxidative damage or stress. Combination
of Vitamins C and E Can Protect Smokers
from Cancer. To bring down their risk of
contacting lung cancer, smokers have to quit,
but Vitamin C supplements may help.

21. Vitamin C and Smokers(6)
• This is according to investigators at Oregon State
University who discovered that ingesting a
thousand mg of vitamin C daily boosted defensive
levels of vitamin E in smokers’ lungs. In a
research available in the February 15, 2006
edition of Free Radical Biology and Medicine, the
Oregon researchers claimed that vitamin C could
decrease the running down of one form of
vitamin E by 45%. They also established that
vitamin C assisted to protect the capacity and
amount of vitamin E found in other parts of the
body.

22. Conclusion
• From the above, the role of Vitamin C
in smoking cessation can be said to be
incontestable, so eat lots of fruits and
vegetables rich in vitamin C. I really think it’s
best to get the nutrient through natural
means but if you feel like taking supplements,
talk to your doctor first.

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