PSYA02H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 14.1: Sedentary Lifestyle, Cardiovascular Disease, Osteoarthritis
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Behaviours and health: health psychologist: study both the positive and negative effects that humans" behaviour and decisions have on their health survival and wellbeing. Need for them has increased as most deaths today are attributable to lifestyle factors. People are more likely to die from tobacco use, alcohol use, obesity and inactivity than from disease these days: smoking: one of the most widely studied health behaviours is tobacco use. Causes lung, mouth and throat cancer, heart disease, and pulmonary diseases such as emphysema. 21% of deaths in canada in the past decade due to smoking related illnesses. Average life expectancy of a smoker is between 7 to 14 years shorter than that of a nonsmoker. Depends on how much and for how long a person smokes. Quitting by 30 greatly reduces chances of getting smoking related cancers. 19. 9% of canadian adults smoke cigarettes (22. 3% of males and 17. 5% of females).
