Download A Little Book of Tobacco: Activities to Explore Smoking by Vanessa Rogers PDF

By Vanessa Rogers

For lots of youth, smoking is far and wide - humans on tv and in movies smoke, their mom and dad may well smoke, and lots of in their associates will most likely smoke. If every person else is doing it, why should not they? This source is filled with actions that tell children in regards to the proof and aid them to imagine and discuss all of the matters relating to smoking with the intention to make confident, proficient offerings. The actions examine how smoking can have an effect on wellbeing and fitness, dependancy, how you can focus on peer strain, smoking and the media, younger people's attitudes to smoking, and smoking and society. actions on giving up smoking, aid and motivation also are integrated. those enjoyable yet informative actions might be nice to exploit with kids elderly 11-19, in teams and on-to-one. academics, formative years staff, drug help employees, adolescence offending groups and social employees will all locate this a useful source.

Show description

Read Online or Download A Little Book of Tobacco: Activities to Explore Smoking Issues with Young People PDF

Best addiction & recovery books

The 2002 Official Patient's Sourcebook on Alcoholism

This booklet has been created for sufferers who've made up our minds to make schooling and study an essential component of the remedy strategy. even though it additionally provides info worthwhile to medical professionals, caregivers and different healthiness pros, it tells sufferers the place and the way to seem for info protecting almost all issues with regards to alcoholism (also alcohol abuse; alcohol habit; alcohol dependence; alcohol dependence syndrome), from the necessities to the main complicated parts of study.

Eating Disorders and Marital Relationships

Anorexia and bulimia are at the elevate within the Western international and the disorder is now regarded to not be just a challenge for teenage ladies, yet older girls to boot. such a lot older ladies both do now or did formerly stay with a companion and lots more and plenty awareness has been paid to those relationships in devising healing regimes.

Prozac Nation; Young and Depressed

Elizabeth Wurtzel's manhattan instances best-selling memoir, with a brand new afterword "Sparkling, luminescent prose . . . a strong portrait of 1 girl's trip during the purgatory of melancholy and again. " —New York instances "A book that turned a cultural touchstone. " —New Yorker Elizabeth Wurtzel writes together with her finger at the faint pulse of an overdiagnosed new release whose ruling icons are Kurt Cobain, Xanax, and pierced tongues.

Feeding Everyone No Matter What: Managing Food Security After Global Catastrophe

Feeding every body it doesn't matter what offers a systematic method of the practicalities of making plans for long term interruption to nutrition construction. the first historical answer built during the last numerous a long time is elevated nutrition garage. notwithstanding, storing up sufficient nutrients to feed everybody might take an important period of time and might elevate the cost of meals, killing extra humans because of insufficient worldwide entry to reasonable meals.

Extra resources for A Little Book of Tobacco: Activities to Explore Smoking Issues with Young People

Example text

You will need • Paper and pens How to do it This demonstration of non-verbal peer pressure is easy to facilitate, but does need careful staging to ensure that it looks natural. Secretly choose a member of your group who is generally confident and unlikely to become upset at being an unwitting volunteer and ask them to leave the room on an ‘errand’. Whilst they are out of the room explain to the rest of the young people that this is an experiment in peer pressure, and the person who has left the room is the subject.

The person holding the ball should call out one word associated with the word ‘smoking’ before throwing the ball across the circle to another 51 A Little Book of tobacco person. The second person should catch the ball and then call out another word associated with smoking, before repeating the action. Encourage the young people to keep the ball moving and keep the ideas flowing. In the meantime record all of the words that are called out. If someone doesn’t catch the ball then they must think of two words before throwing it on.

If anyone hesitates they should build on the idea that it will be OK, remind them that the bowl of sweets is for them and pointing out that there is no real reason to wait. When you come back into the room ignore the bowl at first. Then suddenly pretend to notice that there are treats missing. Ask the young people to be honest and raise their hand if they took one. Then admit that really this was an exercise in peer pressure. Ask the following questions and facilitate a discussion around the answers: 1.

Download PDF sample

Rated 4.00 of 5 – based on 21 votes