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Asking About Tobacco Use in Spanish


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In this lesson, we will learn to ask about tobacco use in Spanish.

You will hear a brief clinical dialogue where the doctor asks the patient if they smoke, when they quit, for how long they smoked, and how much they smoked per day. After listening to the dialogue, we will review the vocabulary before learning the questions and responses in Spanish. We will also learn to ask if the patient chews or vapes tobacco. 

This is the first in a series of lessons covering substance use disorders, TRASTORNOS POR EL CONSUMO DE DROGAS. We’ll revisit this topic several times throughout the rest of the year. 

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LEVEL – INTERMEDIATE

Gracias a Sandra Chacón de Lapa Verde Spanish School por su ayuda con esta lección. 

Grabé esta lección durante un viaje de imersión a Costa Rica con Common Ground International

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Clinical Dialogue in Spanish

1:46

Doctora: ¿Fuma usted?

Paciente: Ahora no, pero antes sí.

D: ¿Cuándo dejó de fumar?

P: Hace dos años, cuando quedé embarazada.

D: Excelente. Bien hecho. ¿Por cuánto tiempo fumó?

P: Casi cinco años.

D: ¿Qué cantidad de cigarrillos fumaba por día?

P: Casi una cajetilla al día.

D: ¿Consume tabaco de otra forma?

P: ¿Cómo de otra forma?

D: ¿Mastica tabaco? No. 

 

Vocabulary 

2:20

To smoke

Fumar

To stop smoking

Dejar de fumar

To become pregnant

Quedar embarazada

Embarazarse

Well done

Bien hecho

How much?

¿Cuánto?

For how long? For how much time?

¿Por cuánto tiempo?

Cigarettes

Los cigarrillos

How many?

¿Cuántos? ¿Cuántas?

How many cigarettes?

¿Cuántos cigarrillos?

¿Qué cantidad de cigarrillos?

A pack (as in a pack of cigarettes)

Una cajetilla

Tobacco

El tabaco

To use tobacco

Consumir tabaco

We use the verb CONSUMIR to express using a drug or substance.

To chew

Masticar

 

Interpret

2:20

(Using “Usted”) Do you smoke?

¿Fuma usted?

Not now, but I used to.

According to my teachers in Mexico, there it is more common to reverse the word order and ask, ¿Usted fuma?

Ahora no, pero antes sí.

When did you stop smoking?

¿Cuándo dejó de fumar?

Two years ago.

Hace dos años.

Two years ago, when I became pregnant.

Hace dos años, cuando quedé embarazada.

Excellent. Well done.

Excelente. Bien hecho.

For how long did you smoke?

¿Por cuánto tiempo fumó?

¿Cuánto tiempo fumó?

Note how we’ve used the PRETERITE to express discrete and completed actions.

When did you quit smoking?

¿Cuándo dejó de fumar?

When I became pregnant

Cuando quedé embarazada

For how long did you smoke?

¿Por cuánto tiempo fumó?

In each of these examples, the action is discrete, meaning the action was carried out and completed at one defined point in time.

Almost five years

Casi cinco años

How many cigarettes did you smoke per day?

¿Qué cantidad de cigarrillos fumaba por día?
¿Cuántos cigarrillos fumaba por día?

We used the IMPERFECT (fumaba) because we are asking about a REPETITIVE action in the past. 

Almost a pack a day

Casi una cajetilla al día

Per day 

Por día, al día

Do you use tobacco in other ways?

¿Consume tabaco de otra forma?

How else can you use it? (There’s no direct translation for this one.) 

¿Cómo de otra forma?

Do you chew tobacco?

¿Mastica tabaco?

To vape

Vapear

Do you vape tobacco?

¿Vapea tabaco?

 

Returning to the Dialogue

10:44

¡Gracias por estudiar español médico con nosotros! 

¡Refuerza lo aprendido utilizando el Quizlet Set para esta lección

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