Tadge Bredwell (adult smoker with emphysema receiving oxygen by face mask) "I do have emphysema which comes from smoking. I found it extremely hard to stop where it became almost impossible". (see Video Script pg 45).

Jay Taylor (19 year old smoker who started smoking when he was 16 years of age) "I wake up and I can't help myself but to smoke. I tried quitting many times. It hurts to stop. I'm addicted. I used to trick myself and say I'll never get addicted. All my friends said "NO", I'll never get addicted, but just like that. It's embarrassing to me to have to depend on a cigarette. You know, I have to have one, I have to have one! Every time I light up a cigarette, I think in maybe about 30 years I'll die of lung cancer and have a tube in my throat. It scares me and I still smoke! That's what scares me the most". (see Video Script pgs 49-50).

Tobacco withdrawal is a group of very unpleasant feelings (i.e., nervousness, irritabil-ity, sweating, depression, inability to concentrate, inability to sleep) that occur when a regular (addicted) tobacco user tries to quit. These symptoms come from a sudden de-crease in brain nicotine.

Video Examples of Tobacco Withdrawal
Laurena Diaz (18 year old smoker describing her friend who is also a smoker) "My friend smokes so much. He had been smoking since Middle School and he would go through a pack a day. When he tries to quit he has cold sweats at night, his heart beats really, really fast, he can't sleep. It's really bad! To this day he's still smoking cigarettes." (see Video Script pg 38).

Daniel Burgoyne (teenager, whose mother is a smoker) "My mother is addicted to to-bacco. If she tries to quit, her hands start shaking, her attitude becomes really negative and she's very short tempered and she just acts like the world is going to end if she doesn't have a cigarette". (see Video Script pg 39).

Bill Stone (50 year old smoker and former drug addict) "I can't put these cigarettes aside! I get jittery and, you know, I go through withdrawals. I know what withdrawals are like, so I can say that. I go through withdrawals! I become irritable. I'm the most difficult per-son to live with because my body craves this. It's not a mental thing. My body craves it! What is it, the nicotine in the cigarette? My body it craves it. It asks for it. It says give me a cigarette! (see Video Script pgs 40-41).

Project: Understanding nicotine tolerance, addiction and withdrawal (find out for yourself).
Homework: Review the definitions of tobacco tolerance, tobacco addiction and tobacco withdrawal. (see above).
Find three people who have been smoking at least one pack/day for at least one year and ask them the following questions: 1) How old were you when you first started to smoke? 2) How many cigarettes did you smoke in one day when you first started? 3) How many cigarettes per day do you smoke now? (The answers to these questions should provide insight into nicotine tolerance), 4) Why did you start smoking in the first place? 5) Why are you still smoking now? 6) have you ever tried to quit smoking? If so, describe the ex