Health Vaping Test

Nicotine

- Acts as a stimulant - Enters smokers through lungs; lining of their mouth and nose - Reaches the brain within seconds - Manipulated neurotransmitters, affecting breathing, movement, learning, memory, mood, and appetite - Short term affects include increased heart rate, increased blood pressure, and changes in the brain that lead to addiction - Use for the first time can result in rapid pulse, dizziness, clammy skin, and nausea - Can be as addictive as heroin or cocaine - Increases dopamine levels - Association between nicotine and anxiety/ panic disorder because of withdrawal

Tobacco

- Body eventually develops a tolerance to it because it craves the pleasurable feelings it provides, which increases addiction - When it isn't to be found during addiction, people start to feel anxious and panic - Addiction can occur from the frequency of use, age, and even genetics - Can become a coping mechanism - Withdrawal causes headaches, irritability, difficultly sleeping, inability to concentrate, and intense nicotine cravings. These effects can occur within 30 minutes once the pleasurable feeling starts to wear off - Contains over 400 chemicals, like carbon monoxide and tar - Smokeless is the same chemicals and can be as addictive as cigarettes. It can also cause stained teeth, tooth decay, bad breath, receding gums, ad cancer -About two to one half times of nicotine is absorbed by chewing tobacco as one that smokes

Dr. Graham

- CVS Health and Cardiologist - E-cigarettes are not harmless because they damage lung tissue because of the toxic chemicals - E-cigarettes aren't just water because they contain aerosol - Vaping can lead to smoking because young adults that use e-cigarettes are four times more likely to move on to cigarettes in the next 18 months - 99% of e-cigarettes contain nicotine - Young brains under the age of 25 are at a higher risk of addiction

Juuls in disguise

- Can look like a USB flash drive - Jumped to 620% the past year once launched in 2015 - 11% teen consider themselves smokers - 45% of teens have used a vaping device - Each juul pod has the same amount of nicotine as a pack of cigarettes or 200 puffs - journal pediatrics published that high school students who used e-cigarettes were seven times more likely than kids that didn't vape to be smoking regular cigarettes two years later

Lisbet

- Dancer for 9 years - Feels that vaping would set a bad example to the younger kids in the studio and would cause her to et her team down. She also feels that it would affect her dancing. - Passionate about keeping other teens vape free - Member of SWAT (students working against tobacco) - We have to teach others about the affects of tobacco - Big influencers show vapes, promoting them - When asked to vape, she was offended and said no, while preparing herself with the health affects

Tar

- Dark, sticky substance that forms when tobacco burns - Stains fingers and teeth - Smelly hair and clothes - Bad breath - Paralysis of cilia lining airways - Increase number of respiratory infections (cold/flu) - Impaired lung function - Contains carcinogens

Clay

- Football player - Started vaping with his friends on the weekends - Thought he had his vaping under control until he decided to get his own Juul vaping device. He would start every day by vaping "to wake up". He then started vaping before and after he would lift weights every day. He was soon addicted and started feeling a difference in his lungs - Eventually stopped vaping because he wanted to be in the bets shape possible for football - His friends still continue to vape, and the bathroom doors in the school have been taken down to avoid any gathering between classes - Says cigarettes are gross, but vaping is considered to be cool

Advertising

- Fun flavors, skins, and wraps make vapes more attractive to teens - no government regulation

Logan Nelson

- Marketing specialist with truth - Explains how advertising is a big way for organizations to sell products by trying to be relatable to their audience - Companies target young audiences because they know that they will bring continuous business, like Joe Camel. - Vaping companies spent over a million dollars to advertise during a 2015 Launch. They grab our attention through social media platforms and use teens to spread their information to friends

Carbon monoxide

- Odorless and poisonous gas that is produced when substances, like tobacco, are burned - Once inhaled and absorbed in blood, it binds to hemoglobin in red blood cells in place of oxygen. This causes red blood cells to stop carrying the amount of oxygen out body needs. To make up for the shortage of oxygen, our breathing and heart rate increases causing more damage

Used e -cigarettes in the past 30 days

1 in 10 middle school kids 1 in 4 high school students

Ways to be happy without vaping

1- look at cute photos 2- talk to your crush 3- go shopping 4- bake chocolate chip cookies 5- perform a random act of kindness

Creation of e-cigarettes

2003 in China

Vaping increasing among high school students

900% from 2011 to 2019

Carcinogens

Cancer causing agents

Patricia Stepaniuk

Catch Global Foundation/ Catch by Breath Program

Emily

First confronted with a vape in 8th grade twice and said no using refusal skills

Blake

Hasn't been confronted with a vape, but has gone through scenarios in his head on ways to get out of it. He also tries to steer away from people that vape, or social events that involve it.

Short- term affects of nicotine within cardiovascular

Increased heart rate, blood pressure, and contractions, causing reduced blood flow to the skin, and increased risk of blood clotting

Short-term affects of nicotine within digestive system

Increased saliva production and bowel activity; reduced amount of insulin from the pancreas

Short-term affects of nicotine within respiratory system

Make breathing harder by increasing mucus production and decreases muscle action in your lungs

Short-term affects of nicotine within nervous system

More energy and activate the brain's "reward pathway" for about 30 minutes

Kyle

Said no to vaping when confronted ad realized that his true friends won't be the ones judging him for it. It is important to find supportive friends.

How vapes work

Use a rechargeable lithium battery and allow flavored liquid (containing nicotine, glycerol, and propylene glycol) to vaporize through a cartridge

Ravi

You can get addicted to e-cigarettes

Stimulants

drugs that increase the activity of the nervous system

Neurotransmitters

send signals between cells