L33 Psych 100B Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Nicotine Replacement Therapy, Smoking Cessation, Health Equity
22 Oct 2018
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), stress, age: smoking cessation programs individual/group counseling, online programs, hypnosis. Interaction of health-related behaviors never a single variable that explains why someone does something, many things interacting to determine things: health disparities in st. louis region, path 1 jasmine has educated parents, good nutrition, nurturing environment, good education. Jasmine and classmates expect to attend college: path 2 jasmine has a single mother, mother is busy with work, little resources for learning activities. Alarm stage stress resistance dips easier to get stressed. Then epinephrine and cortisol are released, ability to respond to threat is boosted. Immediately after stress you are more vulnerable to infection and disease because your body has been focusing on other stuff: 2. Resistance stage immune system prepares for a sustained attack stress resistance rises, immune response increases (less likely to get infection/disease), uses a lot of energy is this stage body gets tired: 3.
