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Make the Best Choice: Say No to Tobacco!

Discover the decline in tobacco use among adults and the consequences of addiction, including withdrawal symptoms. Learn about the dangers of secondhand smoke and the impact of tobacco on society. This lesson provides insights on teen smoking influences, ways to quit, and strategies to stay tobacco-free. Explore the vocabulary related to tobacco addiction and the harmful effects of smoking. Say no to tobacco and make a positive choice for your health and well-being.

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Make the Best Choice: Say No to Tobacco!

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  1. Chapter 12 - Lesson 2 Tobacco and Society

  2. Smoking – don’t get sucked in!!! • Tobacco use among adults has declined over 40% since 1965. • 75% of adults DO NOT use tobacco • After a lawsuit in 1998, tobacco companies have agreed not to use cartoon characters and other methods that might attract children and teens.

  3. Tobacco Addiction • Vocabulary • Addiction – a physical or psychological need for a drug • Physical dependence – type of addiction in which the body itself feels a direct need for a drug • Psychological dependence – an addiction in which the mind sends the body a message that it needs more of a drug

  4. You Can Quit! • In 2000, 70% of teen smokers said they regretted having started • 44 million American adults are now former smokers • In order to quit, tobacco users have to go through withdrawal. • Withdrawal – physical and psychological symptoms that occur when someone stops using an addictive substance

  5. Withdrawal • Physical Symptoms • Cravings • Headaches • Shakiness • Fatigue • Increase appetite • Nausea • Psychological Symptoms • Feeling irritable • Nervous • Anxious • Sad • Trouble thinking during day • Trouble sleeping at night

  6. Secondhand smoke – air that has been contaminated by tobacco smoke • Mainstream smoke – smoke that a smoker inhales and then exhales • Sidestream smoke – smoke given off by the burning end of a cigarette, cigar, or pipe Sidestream smoke contains twice as much tar and nicotine as mainstream smoke

  7. The Costs to Society • Public Health? • Nation’s Economy? • Pregnancy? • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2m7-zIa6-Es

  8. Lesson 3 – Choosing to be Tobacco Free

  9. Why do teens start using tobacco: • INTERNAL INFLUENCES: • Stress • Weight • Image • Independence • Peer acceptance • EXTERNAL INFLUENCES • Role models • Peers • Media • Advertising • Family member/ other adults

  10. How not to start: • Choose friends who don’t use tobacco • Avoid situations where tobacco may be used • Use refusal skills

  11. Strategies for Quitting • Vocabulary • Cold turkey – stopping all at once • Nicotine patch – medication that allows tobacco users to give up tobacco right away while gradually cutting down on nicotine

  12. Ch. 12 Review • 1. Name a cigarette that can be sold in health stores but even more dangerous as a regular cigarette. • BIDIS • 2. The powerful, addictive drug found in tobacco leaves and all tobacco products. • Nicotine

  13. 3. Name three external influences that causes teens to smoke. • Role models, media, family members • 4. Dark, thick sticky liquid that forms when tobacco burns • Tar

  14. 5. Tiny, hairlike structures that protect the lungs • Cilia • 6. How does tobacco affect a pregnancy? • Cause low birth weight • Increase chances of SIDS • Premature birth

  15. 7. Name short terms effects on the respiratory system caused from smoking. • Shortness of breath, coughing, frequent colds and flu, increases asthma and allergies • 8. What is cold turkey? • Stopping all at once – way to quit

  16. 9. What is another name for smokeless tobacco? • Chew • 10. What are nicotine patches and gum used for? • Medications that help tobacco users quit

  17. 11. Over time, the _________ that gets into a user’s lungs can make breathing difficult and lead to lung disease and cancer. • Tar • 12. Once it passes from the lungs to the bloodstream, ___________ reduces the amount of oxygen that blood cells can carry. • Carbon monoxide

  18. 13. What is a physical or psychological need for a drug? • Addiction • 14.Name physical symptoms of nicotine withdrawal. • Head aches, nausea, fatigue

  19. 15. To reach for some type of tobacco when beginning certain activities is a ____________ dependence. • Psychological • 16. What type of smoke is exhaled from the lungs of a smoker? • Secondhand

  20. 18. Name the smoke that comes from the burning end of a cigarette. • Sidestream • 19. Name a strategy to avoid starting using tobacco. • Choose friends that do not use tobacco • Avoid situations where tobacco may be used • Use refusal skills

  21. 20. List internal influences that may cause teens to smoke. • Stress, weight, image, peer acceptance, independence • 21. Name the 5 forms of tobacco. • Cigarette, Cigar, smokeless, loose, specialty cigarette

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