Coping Skills
How do your parents cope with their emotions?
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Vaping is inhaling _____ created by heating the chemical in the vaping device and unlike traditional cigarettes, when we vape, we are inhaling _____ into our lungs?
We inhale vapor when we vape and this vapor contains microscopic metal fragments that will then sit in out lungs.
______ is the disease of not being able to stop using alcohol.
Alcoholism
Drug dependency only affects the drug user, not their family, friends or community?
True or False
False, drug dependency affects everyone
Caffeine, Nicotine & Alcohol are drugs because they affect your mind and body. Is caffeine a stimulant or depressant? How about nicotine? How about alcohol?
Caffeine - Stimulant
Nicotine - Stimulant
Alcohol - Depressant
List three bad examples of bad coping skills.
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A gummy substance in tobacco smoke that kills lung cells is _____.
Tar
When people drink alcohol where is it first absorbed?
Blood Stream and then the blood carries it to the other organs in the body.
Marijuana is most directly linked to what cancer?
Lung cancer because you typically smoke marijuana
Many young people will begin abusing drugs and alcohol because of ___ _______.
Peer Pressure
A grounding technique is best described as.
Coping strategies that help quickly reconnect you with the present moment, anchoring you in the body when experiencing distress, anxiety, panic, or dissociation.
Explain the difference between second hand and third hand smoke.
Secondhand smoke is smoke from other peoples smoking.
Third hand smoke is the smell and residue that is left over once the smoke has disappeared.
Overtime both can make you very sick.
The number one danger of binge drinking alcohol is WHAT problem?
Alcohol poisoning
What are some of the effects of long term vaping?
Vaping causes pneumonia, bronchitis, chronic lung issues, and inflammation. It can lead to EVALI (e-cigarette or vaping-associated lung injury), which can be fatal.
What is the number one killer of teenagers?
Car accidents involving alcohol.
- Car accidents make up over 50% of all accident-related deaths in teens.
- 40% of alcohol-related fatal car crashes involve teens.
A Social Support is...
the functional, qualitative assistance—emotional, tangible, or informational—provided by a social network (family, friends, community) that helps individuals manage stress, improve well-being, and handle difficult situations
Does nicotine make the blood vessels smaller or bigger? Thus cutting down the flow of oxygen to the body, making your heart and blood pressure increase or decrease?
Your blood vessels will become smaller and your heart and blood pressure increases
What is the main cause of a hangover and what is the only thing that will sober a person?
Dehydration & Time
What is the difference between tolerance and overdose in regards to drug use.
Tolerance is when you need more of a drug in order to feel the effects and overdose is taking too large of an amount of drugs causing illness or death.
What is the legal age to purchase, consume or possess alcohol?
21 years old
Why does addiction often time become part of someone's coping skills
Addiction becomes a coping skill because substances or behaviors provide immediate, temporary relief from stress, emotional pain, or trauma by hijacking the brain’s reward system.
There are many types of cancer caused by tobacco. The main type is lung cancer. List the other 2 main types related to tobacco use.
Mouth / Throat Cancer
Bladder Cancer
Blood alcohol content is the amount of what in the body?
Blood alcohol content is the the amount of alcohol in your blood.
This is the unpleasant and sometimes physically painful reaction to stopping the use of drugs.
Withdraw
How can being under the influence of drugs or alcohol cause you to get hurt or get various illnesses/diseases from others?
You may make poor choices when you are under the influence of drugs or alcohol. These poor choices can have effects you did not think about, or know could happen.