TobaccoCh. 14Lesson 1-7

TheWhat – How – Why’s

What do advertisements try to do?

Tobacco Ads

Teenage smoking

What does it cost to be tobacco free?

The average costs of a pack of cigarettes is $6.90

So 6.90 x 7 = 48.30 – Let’s just say $50, because of taxes

What could you do with $50 a week? $200 a month?

1.Even though some forms of tobacco may look safer than others do, they are all unhealthy

2.Nicotine is a highly addictive drug found in all tobacco products Cigarettes, cigars, chew….

What happens to my body?

Nicotine enters the blood and reaches the brain

Raises the heart rate, blood pressure Can make you feel

Dizzy, relaxed, energetic

What are you allowing to enter your body when you use tobacco?

3. Name two of the thousands of chemicals that enter your lungs when you inhale cigarette smoke.

Carbon monoxide Tar 7,000 chemicals. Hundreds are toxic.

About 70 can cause cancer.

Tobacco’s Effects 4. Name three chronic effects of

smoking. 1. Bad breath 2. Persistent coughing 3. Shortness of breath

5. In addition to bad breath and yellow teeth, smokeless tobacco can cause gum disease and chronic white sores in the mouth.

Environmental Tobacco Smoke OR

6. Second hand smoke – The mix of exhaled smoke and smoke

from the end of lit cigarettes is a. smokeless tobacco, chewing

tobacco, or snuff. b. environmental tobacco smoke

(ETS). c. a nonsmoking environment or

area. d. a chronic effect or symptom.

2nd hand smoke….

7. Environmental tobacco smoke is especially dangerous for

a. teenagers. c. children. b. senior citizens. d. adults over

40

What can be done to reduce the effects?

Laws have been put in place and where people can smoke has changed drastically over the past 10 years.

Once the effects of ETS were understood

STOP Advertisements

Social and emotional health effects

8. Describe three social and emotional health effects of using tobacco. 1. Can put friendships in danger 2. Strain relationships with parents 3. Emotional difficulty because they

know they are risking their health

Tobacco, Disease and Death

9. In the United States, about 400,000 + deaths are caused by tobacco use each year.

5 million world wide

Background information Cigarettes are relatively inexpensive

to make. The tobacco industry is one of the most profitable in the US.

The price society pays is HIGH!! Book: 167 Billion in medical expenses CDC: $193 billion in medical expenses

We all pay. Smokers and non-smokers! Is that fair…???

The FACTS are:

10. Cancer is a disease in which damaged cells grow out of control, destroying healthy tissue and forming lumps called tumors.

11. The earlier people start using tobacco, the higher their risk of getting cancer and other tobacco-related diseases.

Respiratory Disease- Lungs

12. Name the two most common smoking-related respiratory diseases. 1. Chronic bronchitis 2. Emphysema

Heart disease

13. blood vessels that have been tightened Constricted blood vessels

14. circulatory system diseases Cardiovascular disease

15. solid mass of blood particles Blood clot

Other health concerns

16. Which of these are ways that smoking can affect your health?

a. eye diseases b. make it harder to recover

from colds and flu c. pregnancy complications,

such as premature birth d. All of the above

Activity

Cups and two straws

Discuss

Tobacco is Addicting 17. Regular use of tobacco products leads

to nicotine addiction.

18. When nicotine attaches to a receptor in the brain, it sends chemical messages that

a. increase heart rate and blood pressure. b. increase your IQ. c. increase your thirst. d. decrease your heart rate and blood

pressure.

Tolerance and Dependence

19. the process of the body getting used to a drug and needing more of it to get the same effect is called psychological

20. The state in which the body needs a drug to function normally is called physical dependence.

Quitting Isn’t Easy!!

27. To relapse is to begin using a drug again after stopping for awhile.

28. Quitting is difficult because physical and psychological dependence and the fear of withdrawal, making nicotine very difficult!

What does it take to quit?

What ideas do you know of or have?

Why Quit?

Discussion….

Why People Use Tobacco

What do you think?

29. Two internal pressures that might make someone want to use tobacco Our own thoughts.

Boredom, emotional problems

What do you think?

30. 75%

Being Tobacco FREE

Let’s brainstorm ideas of what we can do or say….

You are going to write two skits One will be real short, the hamburger

method Positive, negative, positive or activity

Second skit….

Two characters: Make up new names Short sentences

One of you gives pressure The other offers positive suggestions Problem and final solution 4-6 sentences for the skit

Launch

Tobacco Free

Don’t start

The Good News

Launch

What are your goals for the week?

What goals did you meet?

What goals do you need to change or make adjustments to?