Why we need NOT On Tobacco
If your students needed pencils, would you provide them? If they needed paper, would the teacher provide it? If they were being abused, would you allow it to go on? Of course, the answers to these questions are yes, yes and NO. Well students that smoke lack tools to be able to quit using. Not On Tobacco can provide the tools they need.
5 Reasons why should you offer your students help (facts from various research projects):
1. Nicotine withdrawal causes increased anger, hostility AND AGGRESSION
Nicotine accumulates in the body throughout the day and persists throughout the night, exposing users to its effects for 24 hours each day. When users are deprived of nicotine, they experience withdrawal symptoms, including anger, hostility, aggression, loss of social cooperation, irritability, and impairment of psychomotor and cognitive functions.
http://health.iupui.edu/tobacco.html
2. Smoking causes memory and cognitive impairment in adolescents.
Source: Yale U. Office of Public Affairs ID: 189002
Date: 2005-02-01, opa@yale.edu, 203-432-8555
URL: http://opa.yale.edu/news/article.aspx?id=2796
3. Youth Desire to Quit Smoking, But Don't Seek Effective Care.
Almost half of young smokers try to quit each year, and many are highly motivated, but few use proven smoking-cessation treatments, according to researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago. July 2, 2007
4. Tobacco users have more absences.
Tobacco users take 6.5 more sick days per year than non-users Wellness Council of WV. In the Swedish study, Petter Lundborg and colleagues analyzed national data on sickness absence in 14,000 workers between 1988 and 1991. Smokers took an extra 11 days off compared to non-smokers, which was adjusted to eight days to account for the nature of their jobs and underlying health.
5. It’s a Gateway drug.
Teens who smoke are three times more likely than nonsmokers to use alcohol, eight times more likely to use marijuana, and 22 times more likely to use cocaine. Smoking is associated with a host of other risky behaviors, such as fighting and engaging in unprotected sex. (CDC. Preventing tobacco use among young people, p. 36,104)
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