After completing this course you’ll be able to:
| 1. | List several constituents in tobacco that cause damaging health effects from smoking. |
| 2. | State which developing country has the prevalence of smoking especially increased. |
| 3. | Discuss the relationship of heart disease and smoking. |
| 4. | State why dependence is a chronic condition. |
| 5. | State why tobacco smoking is more addictive than chewing tobacco. |
| 6. | Compare “lights” to regular cigarettes. |
| 7. | Define proximal cues and contexts. |
| 8. | List four situations where contexts become paired with smoking. |
| 9. | Define acute tolerance, chronic tolerance and abstinence. |
| 10. | List several physiological effects of smoking. |
| 11. | List several predictors for smoking in teen years. |
| 12. | State the cognitive component and behavioral component of CBT. |
| 13. | Describe the five A’s to address when helping smokers to quit. |
| 14. | List the single most important question to ask to assess tobacco dependence and predict future quitting success. |
| 15. | List the five stages of change with regard to smoking. |
| 16. | Describe the “Reasons to Quit List” and the “Reasons to Continue List.” |
| 17. | List three additional reasons for ambivalence as to why people want to continue smoking. |
| 18. | Define delay discounting. |
| 19. | Define self-efficacy. |
| 20. | List the most common triggers for smoking. |
| 21. | List several ideal times to quit smoking. |
| 22. | List the five coping strategies when triggers remain. |
| 23. | Describe scheduled reduction and narrowing the smoking environment. |
| 24. | Describe the amount of contact time needed to design an effective smoking cessation program with an individual. |
| 25. | Describe the two general ways smoking cessation medications work clinically. |
| 26. | State several reasons why nicotine replacement therapy does not cause abuse liability. |
| 27. | Compare the peak of the nicotine patch with nicotine gum. |
| 28. | State the amount of time nasal spray requires to deliver nicotine. |
| 29. | Compare basal and active dosing. |
| 30. | List three reasons nicotine replacement therapy fails. |
| 31. | List four physiological symptoms of nicotine withdrawal. |
| 32. | Discuss psychological manifestations of nicotine withdrawal. |
| 33. | Compare lapse and relapse. |
| 34. | Discuss the work of Marlott and George regarding the abstinence violation effect and prevention training. |
| 35. | State how smoking lowers body weight. |
| 36. | List three findings regarding dieting to prevent post-cessation weight gain to increase a smoker’s chance of quitting. |
| 37. | List the four key aspects of CBT for weight-gain concerns. |
| 38. | Define restrained eating. |
| 39. | Discuss the type of exercise in CBT for smokers. |
| 40. | State the number of months of continuous abstinence from cigarettes that should be achieved prior to initiation of a weight-loss program. |
| 41. | List several reasons women have a more difficult time quitting smoking than men. |
| 42. | List additional benefits that may encourage pregnant women to stop smoking. |
| 43. | Compare social factors with pharmacological factors regarding adolescent smoking. |
| 44. | Discuss the long-term quit rate among coronary heart disease patients. |
| 45. | Define sensory gating. |
| 46. | Compare cross-tolerance and cross-sensitization. |
| 47. | Define the “gold standard” of success from Sidebar 8.1. |
| 48. | State the two reasons for rapid relapse after smokers try to quit on their own. |
| 49. | Describe carbon monoxide readings. |
| 50. | Discuss adaptation methods of being a nonsmoker. |