Breathe Free:The Plan

To Stop Smoking

Session Seven

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This is our fourth session since break free night

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Passive smoking is also known as Secondhand

smoke or ETSEnvironmental Tobacco

Smoke.

It is the exposure of non-smokers to cigarette, cigar, or pipe smoke in an indoor environment

Two Types of Secondhand Smoke

Mainstream smoke is exhaled by the smoker from the cigarette

Side-stream smoke is the smoke emitted directly into the environment from burning tip of the cigarette– Three times more benzopyrene– Five times more carbon monoxide– Fifty times more ammonia

A lighted cigarette is a “prolific chemical factory” that produces thousands

of chemicals

Side-stream smoke contains three times as much carbon monoxide and benzopyrene and higher amounts of tar, nicotine, ammonia and nitrosamines.

Side-stream smoke is more toxic but is diluted into the total

volume of air within the room.

Non-smokers passively smoke both mainstream and side-stream

smoke(See page 48 of your Personal

Plan Booklet) Healthy adults complain of eye

irritation, cough, headache, and nasal symptoms

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People with respiratory allergies and asthmatics may suffer a worsening of their condition

People subjected to passive smoke at work for over 20 years have small airway disease equivalent to light smokers of 1-10 cigarettes daily

Evidence that involuntary smoking can cause lung cancer in non-smokers

Effect of second-hand

smoke on the family

Children

Approximately 70 percent of children in US live in homes with at least one adult smoker

Parental smoking is associated with increased episodes of bronchitis and pneumonia, asthma and wheezing

Maternal smoking during first 7 years of child’s life results in reduction of lung function

13% of sudden infant death syndrome attributable to passive smoking

Many public health concerns support the need for a smoke-free workplace

Work Place Exposure Number of smokers,

number and type of cigarettes burned, rate of smoking, room size, and ventilation affect quantity of smoke

Smoke exposure is 4 times greater than in the home environment

Non-smokers have least control over air quality

Typical indoor ventilation is inadequate to remove tobacco smoke

Non-smokers experience longer recoveries from respiratory illnesses

Look at your Personal Plan Booklet on page 49 at

“Steps to Creating a Smoke-Free Environment”

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Steps to Creating a Smoke-free Environment

Encourage your family, friends, and associates to:

1. Decide to create a smoke-free environment 2. Enlist heads of households and

management at all levels in supporting smoke-free guidelines.

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The National Interagency Council of

Smoking and Health adopted a Non-Smoker’s Bill of Rights

1974

Right to breathe clean air Right to speak out politely

against contaminators of the environment

Right to act through legislation and social pressure to discourage others from smoking

Environmental Management

A beginning swimmer does not go surfing in 20-foot-high waves in the Pacific Ocean

Page 50 of your Personal Plan Booklet has a summary of things you can do to manage your environment

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Managing Your Environment

Avoid situations you know will be tempting Minimize the importance of tempting situations Make as many public statements as you can

that you are “smoke-free” When tempted, remember your goals Enlist supportive friends to remind you of your

long-term goals

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Group Dynamics and Sharing

Smokeless Tobacco

In the 1930s public pressure in the U.S. forced cities to pass anti-spitting laws and remove spittoons from the store fronts where users would congregate

Smokeless Tobacco Myths

Smokeless tobacco is not as harmful as cigarettes

Smokeless tobacco won’t give me a heart attack

Smokeless tobacco won’t give me lung cancer

Smokeless tobacco is not so addictive

US Surgeon General’s Statement on Smokeless

Tobacco

“After a careful examination of the relevant epidemiological, experimental, and clinical data, the committee concludes that the oral use of smokeless tobacco represents a significant health risk.”

12 million smokeless tobacco users are

dipping, snuffing, and chewing

Some started because they thought it was safe

Others began because their baseball heroes were chewing

Video Presentation

Video Presentation

Video Discussion GuideVideo Discussion Guide

How does this film make you feel? Can a person escape the

consequences of smoking by following other health habits such as getting lots of exercise or fresh air?

How do you feel about the tobacco industry’s advertising in light of this film?

JuiceBreak

Advertising

The tobacco companies have lost you as a customer for one week

Advertising

Much of the cigarette

advertising is almost

subliminal

$Why do tobacco

companies spend over 3.3 billion dollars a year in the

US. advertising their products?

They sayTo keep customers brand-loyal

- not to recruit new smokers

BUT ....

they know if they don’t recruit new smokers, in time there will be no smokers

2,000 Americans stop smoking every day, and 1,000

smokers die every day

To maintain status quo, companies must obtain

3,000 new customers every day

Only 10% of adults over 25 start smoking

Between 1989 and 1991 R.J. Reynolds/Nabisco increased their

sales of Camel cigarettes from 0.5 - 32.8 percent among just the

youth market

Youth1/4 of all

Camel sales

were to youth

Illegal sales to minors rose from $6 million to $476 million in just three years after the Old Joe Camel ads were started

Marketing Criteria

A RecognitionB RecallC Looks coolD Brand preferenceE Usage of cigarettesF Cartoon interesting

97.5%

97.5%

58.0%

32.0%

29.0%

73.6%

72.2%

67.0%

39.0%

23.1%

28.2%

55.1%

Children Adults

Cigarette companies advertising seeks to entice customers to switch brands

What are the tobacco companies really selling?

(Refer to page 51 of your Personal Plan Booklet)

Addiction Death Deception Seduction Lies

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Social Benefits of

Smoking Cessation

What are some of the social benefits you are enjoying since

you stopped smoking?

(See page 52 of your Personal Plan Booklet)

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More time to devote to

work

More time to devote to

family

More time to devote to

friends

Now you don’t offend others by blowing smoke on them

Your breath is fresh and inoffensive

House, car, and clothes smell fresher

Don’t damage other people’s property with ashes and fire.

Don’t burden others with smoking-induced diseases.

A better listener when not distracted by cigarettes.

Don’t have to carry around cigarettes and smoking paraphernalia.

Enjoy attending non-smoking social events like church, theater, and weddings

Project an image of self-control More employable Free to sit in any section of restaurants,

theaters, and public transportation Less likely to cause an accident Because you’re much more pleasant to be

around, you get lots of positive feedback from family and friends

Take stock Where are you?

Where do you want to be Monday morning? Know you are

valuable

Desire the goal Decide your goal is possible

Enjoy the challengePlan success

Weekend Plans(See page 53 of your

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Apply the principle of specialization

Keep your mind FOCUSED on one thought at a time

Make a choice to keep your mind free of thoughts about tobacco and smoking

“I want to smoke.”

“I want to chew tobacco.”

I want to be smoke-

free ALL weekend

Picture yourself accomplishing the goal

Borrow the emotion

Believe that you are going to live this weekend free of smoking

Discipline your thoughts

Party precautions (Personal Plan Booklet p. 54)The Plan To Stop Smoking

Two-Day Food Diary

Starting tomorrow, for two days record everything you eat and drink

Have A Terrific Have A Terrific Evening!Evening!