Choosing to Live Tobacco-Free

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Lesson 2

• Choosing to Live Tobacco-Free

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Teens and Tobacco

• Why do teens start smoking?
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Reduced Tobacco Use Among Teens

• According to the CDC, 88 of high school students
  nationwide do not smoke
• Just a few years ago it was 65
• Factors contributing to this trend are
• Tobacco legislation
• Restriction against advertising aimed at young
  people
• Tobacco companies are required to fund ads that
  discourage young people from smoking
• Illegal for anyone under the age of 18 to
  purchase tobacco products in the US
• No-smoking policies
• Family values
• Positive peer pressure
• Health risks

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• Benefits of Living Tobacco-Free
• Better cardiovascular endurance and lung function
• Improve your fitness level
• Reduce the risk of lung cancer, heart disease,
  and stroke
• Sense of freedom, no dependency
• Less stress
• More confidence

• Strategies for Avoiding Tobacco
• Surround yourself with positive influences
• Reduce peer pressure
• Be prepared with refusal skills

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Quitting Tobacco Use

• Teens who quit have given these reasons
• Begin to health problems, asthma, coughing,
  respiratory infections
• High cost
• Difficulty to purchase
• Lead to other risky behaviors
• Understand the damaging effects of secondhand
  smoke
• Feel more powerful because they are not
  controlled by the addiction to nicotine

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Ending the Addiction Cycle It is NOT
impossible

• Nicotine withdrawal
• The process that occurs in the body when
  nicotine, an addictive drug, is no longer used
• Symptoms irritability, difficulty concentrating,
  anxiety, sleep disturbances, cravings for tobacco
• Nicotine substitutes
• Products that deliver small amounts of nicotine
  into the users system while he or she is trying
  to give up the tobacco habit
• Products include gum, patches, nasal sprays, and
  inhalers

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Getting Help to Quit Tobacco Use

• Prepare for the quit day
• Get support and encouragement
• Access professional health services
• Tobacco cessation program
• A course that provides information and help to
  people who want to stop using tobacco
• Replace tobacco use with healthy behaviors

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Lesson 3

• Promoting a Smoke-Free Environment

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Health Risks of Tobacco Smoke

• Tobacco smoke can harm nonsmokers
• Environmental Tobacco Smoke (ETS)
• Air that has been contaminated by tobacco smoke
• aka, Secondhand smoke
• ETS is made up of
• Mainstream Smoke
• The smoke exhaled from the longs of a smoker
• Sidestream Smoke
• The smoke from the burning end of a cigarette,
  pipe, or cigar
• Which is more dangerous mainstream or sidestream
  smoke?

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Health Risks to Nonsmokers

• Lung cancer
• Eye irritation
• Headaches
• Ear infections
• Asthma
• Respiratory problems
• Sore throats
• Weaker lungs

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Reduce Your Risks

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Creating a Smoke-Free Society

• Illegal to sell tobacco products to teens under
  the of 18
• Illegal to smoke in public places workplace,
  restaurants, parks
• Supporting National Health Goals
• Healthy People 2010
• Goal reduce tobacco use and then number of
  tobacco-related deaths