1. Addiction: Why Do Teens Smoke?

2. What is Addiction?
When a person is dependent on a substance and it leads to negative impacts on their physical, social (school, friends/family, work), emotional or mental health.

3. Stages of Addiction
Experimentation – use influenced by curiosity Social/Recreational – use is infrequent, no negative consequences Habituation – pattern of use; drug is in control Drug Abuse – continued used in spite of negative consequences Addiction – compulsion/loss of control

4. Tobacco Use: Elbow Partner Discussion
Question #1
Who/What is responsible for teens beginning to smoke?
Question #2 What effects does smoking have on teens who smoke?
Question #3
What challenges do people face when trying to quit using tobacco?

5. Why Do Teens Smoke? Be cool Peer pressure Advertising
Can quit if they want
Object to hold
Relaxation and stress relief
Family members do
Short term stimulant

6. Basic Cigarette Information
3000+ chemicals
40+ carcinogens - chemicals know to cause cancer
Nicotine (stimulant) – increases actions of the CNS, raises blood pressure, increase heart rate.
Tar – penetrates the airways & lungs (destroys cilia)
Carbon Monoxide – unites with red blood cells preventing them from carrying oxygen to cells.

7. If Americans stopped smoking…
Deaths from heart disease could be cut by almost one third!
Saving more than 30,000 lives a year!!!

8. Environment Tobacco Smoke
Passive Smoke – smoke inhaled by non- smokers
Mainstream Smoke – what is blown off by the smoker
Side stream Smoke – what comes from burning tobacco
Third-hand smoke - smoke oxidized with
nitrous acid to create nitrosamines that a carcinogen 

9. Chemical Exposure Acetone Acetic Acid Aluminum Ammonia Arsenic Benzene
Butane
Cadmium
Copper
DDT
Dieldrin
Formaldehyde
Hexamine
Hydrogen Cyanide
Magnesium
Methane
Methanol
Naphthalene
Polonium 210
Silicon

10. Smoking’s Effects on the Body
Nicotine (addictive substance) makes the heart work harder and speeds up the pulse
Smoking constricts the blood vessels (poor circulation)
Plaque builds up in the blood vessels
Arteriosclerosis (hardening of the arteries)
Raises blood pressure
Increased risk of heart attack
Increase risk of stroke

11. Smokeless Tobacco
Sends 10 times the carcinogens into the bloodstream as cigarettes do
1 can of snuff = 60 cigarettes

12. Anatomy of a Smoker Stained Teeth & Hair Sore Throat Damaged Lungs
Stained Fingers
Reduced Fertility
Drugged Brain
Ruined Skin
Stressed Heart

13. Smoke Gets in Your Body Circulatory - Stroke, Heart Attack Skeletal
Increases heart rate beats per minutes
Increases force of heart contractions
constricts (narrows) blood vessels while blood flow increases
Increases blood pressure by 5-10 units
Skeletal
Osteoporosis

14. Smoking & Disease: Digestive Respiratory
Mouth, Lip & Throat Cancer, Pancreatic Cancer
Respiratory
Chronic Bronchitis
Cilia become useless, tar builds up causing coughing
Emphysema
Tiny air sacs in lungs (through which oxygen is absorbed into the body) are destroyed
Lung Cancer
Cilia are destroyed and extra mucus cannot be coughed up. Cancerous cells grow in these conditions

15. Nervous System Affects the brain

16. Quitting can WORK!! 20 Minutes 8 Hours 24 Hours – 1 Day
Blood Pressure = normal
Pulse Rate = normal
Temperature of hands & feet = normal
8 Hours
Oxygen Levels in Blood Increase = normal
24 Hours – 1 Day
Chance of Heart Attack decreases

17. After the First Day… 2 Days 3 Days 2 Weeks – 3 Months
Nerve Endings start to re-grow
Senses of taste and smell get better
3 Days
Bronchiole tubes relax = easier to breathe
Lung capacity increases
2 Weeks – 3 Months
Circulation improves and walking is easier
Lung function increases up to 30%

18. Over Months and Years… 9 Months 5 Years 10 Years
Coughing, Sinus congestion, Shortness of breath get better
Cilia re-grow in lungs = Lungs start to clean
5 Years
Lung cancer death rate cut by HALF
10 Years
Lung cancer death rate drops to 12/100,000 – the same rate as for non-smokers
Precancerous cells are replaced by healthy cells

19. Smoking by Age and Sex

20. Smoking and Pregnancy Small, gray umbilical cords Low birth weight
Increased chance of miscarriage
Increased still-birth (fetus dies in womb)
Growth and development of intellect and behavioral characteristics is adversely affected

21. Benefits to being tobacco free
Able to breathe deep
Able to take food and have full sense of smell
Having endurance and energy
Have cigarette money for other things
Being free of addiction
Reduce the risk of heart disease, cancer, and other respiratory illnesses
Not causing air pollution for others around you

22. Kicking the Habit Support Target Triggers Exercise
Avoid other addictions
If you fall do not give up
One day at a time

23. The Truth About Vaping: Is it Safe?
Nicotine – addictive chemical
Nitrosamines - carcinogen
Dietylene glycol – poisonous liquid with a sweet taste
CONCERNS:
It’s unclear that e-cigs help smokers quit ?
E- cigarettes may encourage non-smokers to become addicted to nicotine?

24. Smoking: Truth or Dare
(34 minutes)

25. Tobacco Game Show
Which medical professional is the first to know if someone is chewing?
Cigarettes are the leading cause of most ___?
90% of smokers began before the age of ?
Most smokers die from _________
Tobacco industry spends how much on advertising?
After 1 cigarette how long does it take for the chemicals to leave a room?

26. 1. Dentist
2. Preventable Diseases
3. 17
4. Lung Cancer
Billion
6.1 week

27. 1. Dentist
2. Preventing Diseases
3. 17
4. Lung Cancer
Billion
6.1 week

28. 1. Dentist
2. Preventing Diseases
3. 17
4. Lung Cancer
Billion
6.1 week

29. Anti Tobacco Ads- hold nothing back

30. HOMEWORK Due: Thursday
On your blank “body” show how alcohol, and nicotine affect the body systems.
Today: Info on Nicotine & Drugs
Moving Towards: Relationships /Sexuality and AIDS/HIV