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Health Behaviors Flashcards

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Behavioural pathogens

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health damaging behavior

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Behavioural immunogens

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health protective behaviour

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What are 4 characteristics of a person dependent on a substance?

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  1. Repeatedly self-administered
  2. Tolerance
  3. Withdrawal
  4. Compulsive behavior
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What is an Addiction?

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Physically or psychologically dependent on a substance following use over a period of time

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Physical dependence

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when the body has adjusted to the substance and its use is required for normal functioning

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Tolerance

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Process by which the body increasingly adapts to the use of a substance, requiring larger and larger doses of it to obtain the same effects.

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Craving

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Strong desire to engage in a behavior or consume a substance

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what causes the strong desires of cravings?

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seems to result from a physical dependence and from a conditioning process

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Withdrawal

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The unpleasant symptoms (both psychological and physical) that people experience when they stop using a substance on which they have become dependent.

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what are some symptoms of withdrawal?

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nausea, headache, shaking, hallucinations, irritability, cravings, anxiety

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___________ is the 3rd leading cause of death after smoking and sedentary lifestyle

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Alcohol consumption

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What are factors of Alcohol abuse (not Alcohol use)?

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  • Failure to fulfill obligations
  • Recurrent physically hazardous use
  • Recurrent alcohol-related legal problems
  • Continued use despite alcohol-related social or interpersonal problems
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differentiate between problem drinking and alcoholism?

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Problem drinking – substantial social, psychological, and medical problems

Alcoholism – involves physical dependency (high tolerance, withdrawal symptoms, lack control over their drinking), social, psychological problems

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Symptoms of Alcoholism

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  • Drinking despite health problems related to drinking ( cardiovascular or liver function)
  • Decrease in job performance
  • Inability to function socially without alcohol
  • Legal difficulties
  • Difficulties with family and friends
  • Need for daily use
  • Inability to cut down (does not provide the same feeling)
  • Repeated efforts to control drinking
  • Binge drinking
  • Loss of memory or blacking out
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psychological treatment for alcoholism

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Broad-spectrum CBT (cog behavioral therapy) found to be the most effective therapy, it is often used to treat biological and environmental factors involved in alcoholism simultaneously.

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treatment for hardcore alcoholics

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Typically occurs in a carefully supervised and medically monitored setting; Therapy (CBT) begins once “dried out

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Cognitive behavioral therapy

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  1. Self-monitoring phase (baseline phase)
    -understand situations. Identify triggers
  2. Contingency contracting (key to behavioral portion of therapy)
  3. agrees to punish negative behaviors
  4. Cognitive Restructuring
    Change belief that cannot do it. (eg. I can do it with help)
  5. Developing a sense of self-efficacy
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consequences of alcohol abuse

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Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
Alcohol-related accidents
Retardation of brain cell growth
Cirrhosis of the liver, liver disease
Problems with the pancreas
Hypertension
CHD
Brain disease
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___________ is the single greatest cause of preventable death.

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smoking

20
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Overall, smoking has decreased except in ________ __________.

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college students

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What is the leading preventable cause of mortality and morbidity

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Tobacco

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which has a higher relapse rate? smoking or alcohol

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Smoking

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peer and family influence in (adolescence)

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It is estimated that over 70% of cigarettes smoked are done so in the presence of a peer

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self-image and smoking (adolescence)

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The image of the “smoker” is often seen as rebellious, tough, mature

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Factors of smoking in adolescence

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peer and family influence
self-image
Weight Control
Mood

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mood and smoking (adolescence)

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Aggressive tendencies, depression, stress, psychological distress

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