PSYC 3600 Lecture 11: Smoking
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Smoking: most common death that can be preventable with 45 000 each year, accounts for 30% of all cancer deaths. Nature of smoking: smoking addiction harder to stop than heroin or drinking, experimental smokers don"t show signs of addiction. Nicotine: affects neuroregulators like dopamine and norepinephrine, temporary improvements in performance or affect like in memory or anxiety. Need to model high-status non-smokers aka find role models that you like and that don"t smoke. Information about harmful effects of smoking fits for teens. Materials are created to give positive image for non-smoker as independent and self-reliant. If teens are trained in self-esteem, coping and social skills, don"t need to worry about self-image. Individual diets and extreme exercise until weight is below optimum level. About half who are diagnosed with anorexia are also bulimic. Eating syndrome involving changing cycles of binge eating and purging through methods like vomiting, laxatives, extreme dieting or fasting and drug/alcohol abuse.
