Tobacco Prevention

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Tobacco Prevention
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You think you know, but you have no idea

• Take a few minutes and fill out this quick quiz
  on how much you know about tobacco and its
  effects.

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Answers- Can you believe it?!

• 1. C- tobacco causes more illnesses and death
  than all other addicting drugs combined. It can
  be attributed to about 443,000 deaths in the
  United States each year. Nicotine is the main
  drug in tobacco that is responsible for
  addiction.
• 2. A- Nicotine boosts the amount of a brain
  chemical called dopamine. At first, this produces
  feelings of pleasure. Soon, however, the person
  needs the nicotine just to feel normal.

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Answers- contd.

• 3. A- The addictive drug, nicotine, is only one
  of about 4000 chemicals in cigarette smoke. Many
  of them, such as tar and carbon monoxide are
  poisonous and cause diseases such as cancer.
• 4. C- People who smoke are addicted to the
  nicotine in tobacco. However, both tar and carbon
  monoxide are also toxic chemicals causing many
  health problems.

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More answers

• 5. A- After a person inhales cigarette smoke,
  nicotine enters the blood in the lungs, goes
  through the heart and is pumped to the brain- a
  journey that takes only 8 seconds!
• 6. C- Nicotine is similar in size and shape as
  brain chemicals that regulate feelings of
  alertness and pleasure or satisfaction.

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Video TIME!

• Child Smokers
• Sean Marsee's Story

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Get with a partner

• Have you ever been told or heard that using
  tobacco is bad for you?
• Why do people start using tobacco?
• Why do people continue using tobacco?
• Who do tobacco companies target with their
  advertising?

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Tobacco is Categorized As
There are two categories of tobacco
-smoked tobacco -smokeless tobacco
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Smoked Tobacco

• Cigarettes- (a small hand-rolled filterless
  cigarette made in India that contains more tar
  and nicotine then regular cigarettes), Clove
  cigarette (cigarette that has a mixture of ground
  cloves and tobacco, also contains Eugenol, which
  numbs the back of the throat, reducing the
  ability to cough), regular cigarette (dried and
  shredded tobacco wrapped in paper). Ex. Virginia
  Slim, Marlboro, Camel, Newport
• Pipes- shredded tobacco smoked in a pipe. Ex.
  Estate Pipes, Coral Curves, Black and Milds
• Cigars- are made up of dried and rolled tobacco
  leaves. Ex. Black and Mild, Philly Blunts,
  Dutches

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Smokeless Tobacco

• Chewing Tobacco- tobacco product made from
  chopped tobacco leaves that are place between
  gums and cheek. Ex. Skoal, Kodiak, Copenhagen
• Snuff- tobacco product made from powdered tobacco
  leaves and stems that are snorted or placed
  between gums and cheek. Ex. Copenhagen, Skoal

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Things you might not know

• Tobacco is the single most preventable cause of
  death in the United States.
• Cigarette smoking annually causes more than
  443,000 premature deaths, far more than alcohol
  abuse and illegal drugs.
• Cigarette smoking kills more Americans each year
  then the combined total for the following causes
  AIDS, car accidents, suicide, murder, alcohol
  abuse, illegal drugs, and fires.
• 1 out of every 5 deaths in the U.S is Tobacco
  related. That is like 3 fully loaded jumbo jets
  crashing every day with no survivors!

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Marker Activity

• Tobacco use begins very early in life!
• Of adult daily smokers, 89 begin smoking as
  teenagers! (look at the class markers)
• Of every 6,000 young people who take their first
  puff of a cigarette, 3,000 of them become regular
  smokers.

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Nicotine

• Nicotine, a highly addictive nervous system
  stimulant drug, is found in tobacco products.
• Dulls the taste buds, constricts blood vessels,
  and increases heart rate and blood pressure.
• Nicotine is absorbed into the blood stream when
  it is inhaled into the lungs. It is also
  absorbed into the blood stream when placed in the
  gum where saliva is present.
• Nicotine results in physical and psychological
  dependence of the body.
• People first experience a stimulation or high
  when using a nicotine product. For addicts, the
  use of tobacco is to temporarily stop their
  nicotine cravings.

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Adverse Affects

• Tobacco has more than 4,000 known chemicals in
  it, a few of which are carcinogens. This is a
  chemical that is known to cause cancer. Some
  known cancers caused by tobacco use are
• Lung Cancer (leading cause of cancer death in the
  world)
• Cancer of the Mouth
• Stomach Cancer
• Cancer of the Throat

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Respiratory Diseases

• Asthma- condition in which bronchial tubes become
  inflamed and constricted, making breathing
  difficult
• Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)-
  disease that interferes with breathing. Examples
  are Chronic Bronchitis (recurring inflammation of
  the bronchial tubes) and Emphysema (condition in
  which the alveoli in the lungs lose most of their
  ability to absorb Oxygen from inhaled air and
  pass it on into the blood stream or remove carbon
  dioxide from the blood stream). Emphysema cannot
  be cured.

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Cardiovascular Diseases

• Smoking is a major cause of death from heart and
  blood vessel diseases, blood clots, and stroke.
• Heart Attack- death of cardiac muscle caused by
  lack of blood flow to the heart. This is a clot
  in an artery of the heart.
• Stroke- a clot in the brain caused by a blocked
  or broken blood vessel.
• Aortic Aneurism- Bulging weakened area in the
  aorta.

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Other Health Problems

• Smokers are more likely to develop gum disease,
  to lose teeth, and supporting gum tissue.
• Smoking may cause or worsen ulcers in the stomach
  and small intestine.
• Smoking during pregnancy harms the developing
  baby- can reduce birth weight and lung function.
• Why would someone do something to harm their
  unborn baby??

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Is this bad?

• Some external effects of tobacco use
• - bad breath, yellow teeth, brittle and
  yellowing nails, smell of smoke on clothing,
  etc., blackened gums, jaundice, red eyes, etc.

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MONEY, MONEY, MONEY

• It will cost you approximately 1,000 a year if
  you buy a pack a day. If you put a thousand
  dollars a year into the bank with 5 interest, in
  20 years you would have accumulated 34, 719.
  You could buy a Cadillac for that much!

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Why Try Tobacco in the First Place?

• Some people try tobacco because of advertising
  and media. The media presents tobacco as a fun,
  easy, and cool thing to do.
• Some people try tobacco because of peer pressure.
  Friends or acquaintances are using tobacco
  products so they feel they have to. They might
  also be pressured or made fun of if they try to
  resist in the first place. This may make them
  give in.
• Some people try tobacco as a way to relieve
  stress. A person may turn to tobacco for the
  immediate high and stimulation it gives them,
  relieving their stress.
• Lastly, some people may turn to tobacco products
  to lose weight. Since tobacco covers up
  appetite, it is easier to lose weight then trying
  to diet.

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Ways to Quit

• 1. List your reasons for wanting to quit.
• 2. Decide upon a date to quit
• 3. Make a health behavior contract
• 4. Think about the situations in which you use
  tobacco products

• 5. Join a tobacco cessation program
• 6. Get help from others
• 7. Participate in activities that get your mind
  off using tobacco
• 8. If at first you dont succeed

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If you need something else

• Get help from a health care professional- a
  physician might prescribe
• A nicotine patch, nicotine chewing gum, nicotine
  inhaler, or nicotine nasal spray.
• Buproprion- a prescription anti-depressant drug
  that does not contain nicotine. This is approved
  by the FDA as a smoking cessation aid.
• Trying cold turkey might not be a great option if
  you have been smoking for a while or smoke a
  couple packs a day.

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Refusal Skills

• Change the subject. If asked to smoke, just
  brush off the idea and change the subject.
• Give a reason. If asked to smoke give a reason
  as to why you dont smoke or never will.
• Walk away or ignore the offer. If the pressure
  is getting to high, just turn and walk away or
  ignore what is being told to you.
• Assert yourself. If you think that you are right
  and the person smoking is harming themselves,
  tell them that.
• Whatever you doJust Say NO!

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Role Playing Time!

• Get with a partner and for the next few minutes
  come up with a situation in which someone is
  being asked to use tobacco and someone is using a
  refusal skill. Try to use one of the skills we
  learned today or come up with your own! Be
  Creative.

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FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT

• List 3 different health problems associated with
  smoking or chewing tobacco.
• List at least 2 different ways in which you can
  say no to someone who is pressuring you to smoke.
• List 5 reasons that people may start using
  tobacco products.
• About how much does it cost per year to smoke a
  pack a day?

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ARTICLE

• http//www.cnn.com/2012/02/29/us/tobacco-warnings/
  index.html?hpthp_t2