Smoking Cessation
Within _____ hours, your carbon monoxide levels will return to a more normal level. Carbon monoxide is a chemical present in cigarette smoke that replaces oxygen particles in the blood, lowering the amount of oxygen your tissues receive.
a) 8
b) 12
c) 14
d) 24
a) 8
When carbon monoxide goes away, your oxygen levels start to increase to more normal levels. This increased oxygen helps nourish tissues and blood vessels that were getting less oxygen while you were smoking.
Name 4 forms of gambling
sports betting
casino
horse betting
poker
bingo
online,etc
Substance use disorders affect over 20 million Americans aged ____ and over.
a) 8
b) 10
c) 12
d) 14
c) 12
This actor and screenwriter had a big break that came with a role in the Academy Award-winning Good Will Hunting, which he co-wrote with his childhood friend. This actor explained that his father “didn’t really get sober” until he was 19, noting it wasn’t easy to diagnose himself as an alcoholic despite seeing it in his family. He stated, “It took me a long time to fundamentally, deeply, without a hint of doubt, admit to myself that I am an alcoholic. The next drink will not be different,” he said in February 2020.
Ben Affleck
A technique used in cognitive therapy and cognitive behavior therapy to help the client identify their self-defeating beliefs or cognitive distortions, refute them, and then modify them so that they are adaptive and reasonable.
Cognitive Reframing
At _____ hours, previously damaged nerve endings start to regrow.
a) 24
b) 36
c) 48
d) 72
c) 48
In ______, the state prison had a casino inside it for 35 years. That's right: inmates could play blackjack, craps, poker, and even bet on sports inside the "Bullpen," a stone building on the prison's grounds in Carson City from 1932 to 1967. A new warden from California shut it down that year, saying gambling was a "degradation" to the inmates.
a) Montana
b) Colorado
c) California
d) Nevada
d) Nevada
_____ of deaths from drug use disorders among users aged 50 years and older are caused by opioids.
a) 55%
b) 60%
c) 75%
d) 80%
c) 75%
This person is an Oscar-winning actor known for roles in many films, including 'The Lion in Winter,' 'Silence of the Lambs' and 'The Remains of the Day.' He has been sober for 45 years. He called his addiction a “great blessing” because it caused him to make mistakes and learn self-forgiveness.
Anthony Hopkins
An exercise that may help you refocus on the present moment to distract yourself from anxious feelings.
Grounding
Your lung function also increases as much as ____ about two weeks after stopping smoking, according to the American Lung Association.
a) 25%
b) 30%
c) 45%
d) 50%
b) 30%
Name 4 tricks used by casinos to keep people gambling
free drinks
no clocks
maze-like carpets
no natural light
stimulating lights and sounds
_____ has the nation’s highest rate of overdose deaths at 51.5 deaths per 100,000 people.
a) West Virginia
b) Ohio
c) Indiana
d) Pennsylvania
a) West Virginia
This American singer, actress, and businesswoman. After performing in church choirs as a child, she signed with Columbia Records in 1997, aged seventeen. "There is so much stigma around the word alcoholism or the label of an alcoholic. The real work that needed to be done in my life was to actually accept failure, pain, brokenness, and self sabotage," she wrote. "The drinking wasn’t the issue. I was. I didn’t love myself. I didn’t respect my own power. Today I do. I have made nice with the fears and I have accepted the parts of my life that are just sad. I own my personal power with soulful courage. I am wildly honest and comfortably open. I am free."
Jessica Simpson
This skill rests on letting go of the illusion of control and a willingness to notice and accept things as they are right now, without judging.” It is broken into 3 parts: (1) accepting the reality is what it is, (2) accepting that the event or situation causing pain has a cause, and (3) accepting life can be worth living even with painful events.
Radical Acceptance
In _____ after quitting smoking, your chance of heart disease drops by half.
a) 2 years
b) 3 years
c) 4 years
b) 3 years
True or False: Las Vegas is the gambling capital of the world
False: The city of Macau is the only Chinese territory where it is legal to gamble in a casino... and it also happens to be the world's largest gambling city. Forget Vegas: Macau's casino revenues beat Vegas's five times over in 2012. Unlike Vegas, which makes most of its money in penny slots, most of the money generated in Macau (75 percent!) comes from high rollers making huge bets at table games in V.I.P. rooms.
Drug use went up ____ among 8th graders between 2016 and 2020.
a) 31%
b) 41%
c) 51%
d) 61%
d) 61%
Taking time for yourself every day is essential for coping with life
True
An method that emphasizes engaging in positive and enjoyable activities to enhance one's mood.
Behavioral Activation
At the ______ mark, your chance of a heart attack decreases to equal that of a person who’s never smoked.
a) 10 year
b) 13 year
c) 15 year
d) 18 year
c) 15 year
Why do slot machines have pictures of fruit on the wheels?
It's because early 1880s-era slot machines would actually dispense fruit-flavored gum. The machines also dispensed tokens meant to be exchanged for drinks and cigars before pumping out actual coins in 1888.
Teenagers in Massachusetts are _____ more likely to have used drugs in the last month than the average American teen.
a) 33%
b) 44%
c) 55%
a) 33%
Glamorizing your past use is an example of mental relapse
True
A set of skills that are meant to change your body chemistry quickly in order to reduce the effects of an overwhelmed emotional mind; where your thinking and behaviors are controlled by your overwhelming emotions.
TIPP skills -- temperature, increase activity, paced breathing, progressive muscle relaxation