{"id":9764,"date":"2026-02-25T13:52:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T13:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rtstudents.com\/radiologyhub\/respiratory-therapy-smoking-effects-facts\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T13:52:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T13:52:12","slug":"respiratory-therapy-smoking-effects-facts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rtstudents.com\/radiologyhub\/respiratory-therapy-smoking-effects-facts\/","title":{"rendered":"Respiratory Therapy Smoking Effects Facts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Smoking Impact<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Smoking damages airways and alveoli leading to chronic disease.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Nicotine Effects<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Nicotine increases heart rate and blood pressure.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Carbon Monoxide<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Carbon monoxide reduces oxygen carrying capacity.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Secondhand Smoke<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Secondhand smoke increases respiratory risk in nonsmokers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Smoking Cessation<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Stopping smoking improves lung function over time.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related Articles<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/rtstudents.com\/radiologyhub\/respiratory-therapy-disease-facts\">Respiratory Therapy Disease Facts<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/rtstudents.com\/radiologyhub\/respiratory-therapy-patient-assessment\">Respiratory Therapy Patient Assessment<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/rtstudents.com\/radiologyhub\/respiratory-therapy-critical-thinking\">Respiratory Therapy Critical Thinking<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Smoking Impact Smoking damages airways and alveoli leading to chronic disease. Nicotine Effects Nicotine increases heart rate and blood pressure. Carbon Monoxide Carbon monoxide reduces oxygen carrying capacity. Secondhand Smoke Secondhand smoke increases respiratory risk in nonsmokers. Smoking Cessation Stopping smoking improves lung function over time. Related Articles Respiratory Therapy Disease Facts Respiratory Therapy Patient [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[37,36,35],"class_list":["post-9764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-respiratory-therapy","tag-respiratory-therapist","tag-respiratory-therapy","tag-rt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rtstudents.com\/radiologyhub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rtstudents.com\/radiologyhub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rtstudents.com\/radiologyhub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rtstudents.com\/radiologyhub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rtstudents.com\/radiologyhub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9764"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rtstudents.com\/radiologyhub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9797,"href":"https:\/\/rtstudents.com\/radiologyhub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9764\/revisions\/9797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rtstudents.com\/radiologyhub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rtstudents.com\/radiologyhub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rtstudents.com\/radiologyhub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}