Welcome to Lifeskills

1. Welcome to Lifeskills • Do you have your student guide???? • Do you have last week assignment??? Student guide – page 27 worksheet 8 My reasons for not smoking How your progress on your personal goal? Next weeks homework Smoking word puzzle pgs 34-35 & My Reasons for not Drinking Worksheet # 9 (page 40)

2. Ground Rules • One person talks at a time. • No one will be forced to participate if he/she does not want to do so. • Students are free to express their opinions or participate in group activities without being subjected to criticism. • Everyone will be respected. Anything discussed in group will remain confidential.

3. Smoking and Biofeedback • Goal: to focus on the immediate physiological effects of smoking. • To demonstrate the effect that smoking has on the carbon monoxide levels has on the lungs, heart rate, and hand steadiness (nervousness).

4. Immediate Effects of Cigarette Smoking • Let’s review the long term health consequences of smoking. • Heart disease. • Lung cancer. • Other cancers (mouth, tongue, throat cancer). • Chronic obstructive lung disease.

5. How long does it take for smoking to affect your body? What are some of the more immediate effects of smoking? What immediate effect does smoking have on you heart? What does it men by heart rate? Do smokers have a faster heart rate than nonsmokers? Why does smoking make your heart beat fast? Read Page 29 of Your Student Guide. What Are the Immediate Effects of Cigarette Smoking?

6. Smoking and Increase Heart Rate • Nicotine in cigarettes stimulates the heart to beat faster. • This increases the heart’s need for oxygen. • The carbon monoxide in cigarette smoke pushes out the oxygen in the blood, forcing the heart to work faster in order to get the oxygen it needs.

7. Interesting Facts • People who don’t smoke and who exercise regularly (for example marathon runners) may sometimes have a normal resting heart rate as low as 30-40 beats per minute. • Cigarette smoking decreases the delivery of oxygen to the muscles during vigorous exercise, making the effort of the activity more difficult.

8. Interesting Facts • Nicotine increase levels of blood lactate. When exercising, elevated levels of blood lactate cam make people feel fatigue or fell like quitting. • In some people cigarette smoke can trigger asthma symptoms, making it nearly impossible until the symptoms subside.

9. Things to Remember • The speed at which your heart beats changes throughout the day. Several things can affect how fast or slow your hearts beats, they include physical exercise, emotions, relaxation, and cigarette smoke. • Smokers have higher heart rates due to the carbon monoxide and nicotine in cigarette smoke. • People who smoke have a greater risk of heart disease and heart attack.

10. Points to Make • Smoking has an immediate effect (within seconds) on the body although it takes years for smoking related disease to develop. • Smoking increases the body’s heart rate.