Smoking
True/False. A typical smoker spends over $2,000 a year on cigarettes.
What is true? The average pack-a-day smoker pays $6 per pack adding up to $2190 per year.
True/False. The most common way to contract Hep C is having sexual contact with an infected person.
What is false?
The most effective lifestyle change for treating and controlling high blood pressure
What is weight loss?
Once known as Adult-Onset Diabetes.
What is Type 2 Diabetes?
True/False. Anxiety only effects your thoughts and is all in the head.
What is false? Anxiety has physical, mental and emotional symptoms.
80% of smokers started before what age: 12, 18, 22, 30.
What is 18? The majority of people start smoking as adolescents.
What part of the body does chronic Hep C affect.
What is the liver?
Ethnicity with the highest prevalence of hypertension.
What is African American?
The risk of stroke is _____ times higher for people with diabetes.
What is 2-4?
This famous soccer player has to have everything an even number due to his OCD.
Who is David Beckham?
How many people die from smoking and second hand smoke in one year?
What is 480,000 people?
True/False. Most people with chronic Hep C do not have any symptoms.
What is true?
The name hypertension is commonly referred to as because of a patient's lack of symptoms.
What is the "silent killer?"
Diabetes can cause this part of the body to have to be amputated.
What is leg or foot?
True/False. Anxiety disorders are not very common.
What is false? About 18 percent of American adults - nearly one in five - experience some type of anxiety disorder in any given year, according to the National Institute of Mental Health.
How many chemicals are found in cigarettes?
What is over 700 chemicals?
True/False. There is a vaccine that can prevent Hep C.
What is false?
Three symptoms of high blood pressure.
What is: severe headache, fatigue, confusion, vision problems, nosebleeds, chest pain, irregular heartbeat, blood in the urine, pounding in your chest, nectk or ears?
This state has the highest percentage of adults diagnosed with diabetes.
An extreme fear or anxiety triggered by a particular situation (such as social situations) or a particular object (such as spiders).
What is a phobia?
True/False. Smoking help0s you relax.
What is false? Smoking actually triggers stress. While smokers may feel a sense of relief when they smoke, that is only because they are addicted to the nicotine in tobacco. As the nicotine from one cigarette wears off, they start to crave another and become nervous and tense. Nicotine causes your heart rate and blood pressure to increase.
Approximately how many people are infected with Hep C in the US.
What is 3.5 million people?
The difference between systolic blood pressure and diastolic blood pressure.
What is systolic - the pressure during a heartbeat when the heart is sending blood through the body, diastolic - the pressure between heartbeats, then the heart is filling with blood.
Signs and symptoms of this include: fruity smelling breath, confusion, fatigue, nausea/vomiting, dry mouth.
What is hyperglycemia?
True/False. All I need is a little cocktail or some pot to get through this.
What is false? Self-medicating is common among people with anxiety disorders, but it's not an effective treatment. A drink or two might get you through a social event with minimal anxiety, but any self-medicating is just another way of avoiding the disorder instead of treating it. In the long run, self-medicating can be detrimental in other ways.