Tobacco and Smoking Cessation
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Models & interactive displays
Heart disease model set
Audience: Young people and adults Three exceptionally detailed heart models offer a jolting look at the damage that is frequently the result of unhealthy living. One model features a partially healed infarction another is plagued by congestive heart failure and a normal model shows viewers what a heart is really supposed to look like. Each model is approx. 10 cm x 6 cm x 6 cm. |
Giant cigarette action display
Audience: Young people and adults An interactive tool that reveals the benefits of quitting smoking, which increase the longer you stay smoke-free. User simply turns the outer sleeve to see the benefits that begin from within minutes of the last cigarette and continue for years. 9 cm x 61 cm. |
Lou-wheeze
Audience: Young people and adults Has two flexible latex lung models. One represents a healthy lung, and the other depicts the damage done by emphysema and cancer. The attached pump inflates the healthy lung as normal, but the diseased lung inflates sluggishly and fails to deflate completely between 'breaths'. |
Deluxe occluded artery model
Audience: Young people and adults Model provides an easy-to-understand visual of how plaque buildup harms cardiovascular health by comparing a healthy artery to one that is clogged with thick, yellow plaque. Turning the display over demonstrates how easily blood cells travel through the clean artery, while those in the clogged artery get stuck in cholesterol buildup, leading to a heart attack or stroke. |
The ABC's of smoking flipchart
Audience: Young people and adults From asthma to burns, cancer, drug interference, and more, this six-panel, 30-cm x 43-cm flip chart presents alphabetical listings of conditions and diseases associated with smoking with full-colour, graphic medical photography. Great for smoking cessation programmes, health fairs, clinics, classroom presentations, and more. Features presentation notes on the back of each panel. |
The Tarminator
Audience: All ages The Tarminator is perfect for demonstrations in which using an actual cigarette is impractical or not permitted. The user starts by pumping clean water through The Tarminator's filter unit, demonstrating how unpolluted air leaves no deposits on the lungs. For comparison, a special tar mixture is then pumped through the unit, staining The Tarminator's filter a dull brown. This shows how lung tissue absorbs the tiny particles in cigarette smoke. After the demonstration, the stained filter can be passed around for closer examination. Please note: this image shows a newer version of the Tarminator model than the one held by our service. |
Mum's lifeline to baby
Audience: Young people and adults This simple model showing baby, umbilicus and placenta, is designed to explain the effect of mum’s smoking on the levels of oxygen that pass through to baby in the blood (but could also be used in alcohol education). A ‘clip’ is used to represent how blood oxygen levels are restricted by mum’s smoking, denying baby some of the oxygen essential for healthy growth. Comes with explanatory notes and other information. |
Smoking lesson plan pack from Public Health England (free online resource)
https://campaignresources.phe.gov.uk/schools/resources/smoking-lesson-plan-pack Use this lesson plan, PowerPoint and accompanying video to encourage students to explore the reasons why young people should choose not to smoke.Using the interactive 'pick-a-path' video, peer-to-peer discussion and activities, students can role play and discuss scenarios where young people are encouraged or pressured to smoke. Then use the tools to identify techniques for resisting this pressure. Downloads include:
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DVDs
10 top reasons to stay smoke free
Audience: 9+ Duration: 14 mins Date: 2008 A fast moving film version of the best selling leaflet that briefly presents 10 reasons for not taking up tobacco. Using a colourful mix of facts and figures, body painting, interviews and humour, the action includes tobacco’s impact on health, wealth, complexion, pollution, addiction, fitness and freedom. Oh and saying no to those tobacco industry marketers who are represented as the blood sucking Count Tobacula. Great for young people and any groups as a discussion starter. |
Quit [on same DVD as 'Life Stuff: The A-Z of Drugs]
Quit is a series of strong, visually alluring and attention-grabbing campaigning films. Short and sharp, Quit has one aim: to discourage and stop young people from smoking. Five films included: 1. A Hole in My Neck: Few people realise that smoking can cause tongue and throat cancer. This film looks at the consequences of smoking and follows an operation to remove a smoker's tongue. 2. Family Habit: Can a teenager AND their mum give up? 3. Greg's Story: Greg is sixteen. When he was 11 he found out that he had cancer. Greg's utter disbelief that ANYONE would choose to risk going through what he has experienced first-hand is a powerful reminder that life is full of hidden dangers, and that some risks just aren't worth taking. 4. Breath of Fresh Air: Every year the tobacco companies need to recruit 450,000 new smokers to replace those lost through illness and death - and these new smokers need to be young. 5. Dog End: An animation about passive smoking. Trying to hide his fags from his parents, a teenage boy subjects the family dog to his illicit smoke. Read more |
Life Stuff: The A-Z of Drugs [DVD]
Audience: 14-19 Duration: 3 x 25 mins The A-Z of Drugs is the first of two series on this DVD. It aims to disentangle myths from reality, giving facts, information and viewpoints in a language young people understand. It's a fast-moving, stylish, no-nonsense guide through the minefield of drugs, empowering young people to make informed choices for themselves. Programme details: 1. A to E: Covers A to E, starting with alcohol and ending with ecstasy 2. F to O: This programme starts with F for friends, it moves on to look at heroin and injecting, then explores making choices and needing to fit in 3. P to Z: Includes a look at treatment and some of the reasons why people take drugs. Read more |
Smoking in pregnancy: are you ready to quit?
Audience: Young people and adults Duration: 12 mins Date: 2006 This film highlights the risks of smoking for the mother and the developing foetus. The impact of smoking throughout pregnancy is emphasised by the effects that continue, even after the baby is born. The film includes interviews with three mothers. |
No Smoking No Butts
Audience: Young people 12+ Duration: 17 mins Date: 2008 A fast moving and funny DVD made by the Monmouthshire Youth Service. Hard hitting visuals and wacky characters make the surreal delivery of this programme stand out from anything you have ever seen on the subject of tobacco and smoking. There are some clever representations of some of the stark messages of health damage and smoking. Featuring Wheezer Geezer, Top Tips and White room. With resource pack. |
Teaching packs, games & activities
SpinSmart tobacco wheel
Perfect for any group, this engaging, spinning wheel comes with a presentation guide that is packed with questions and activities that teach the truth about tobacco. Includes questions with activities for ages 6–10 and multiple-choice questions for age 11–adult. A fun activity to prevent young people from starting to smoke and to encourage current smokers to quit, as well as a great Personal, Social, Health and Economic (PSHE) education resource for schools and health education professionals |
The world of tobacco – turning over a new leaf skills for the primary school child
Audience: 5-11 To increase knowledge and understanding of tobacco related issues, to explore attitudes, feelings and values, and learn practical life skills in relation to cigarettes and tobacco. Contains: 23 lessons; photocopiable classroom materials; workshop activities for use with the whole school community; background papers and information sheets give ideas about smoking to becoming an addicted daily smoker |
Can you hack it? What you can do in a few minutes to tackle smoking with young people
Audience: Young people For anyone wishing to help young people to stop smoking. Can also be used to help young people not to start. Based on the Stages of Change model, the resource suggests effective actions to take when you only have a few minutes to discuss smoking. 'Can you hack it?' contains charts, posters and handouts. The guidelines give details of the key messages and appropriate action for each stage from forming positive ideas about smoking to becoming an addicted daily smoker |
Primary School Smoking Education Pack
Audience: 5-11 and teaching staff This manual adopts a sensitive approach to the issues of smoking, encouraging children to express their own views, feelings and concerns, and enabling them to develop the knowledge and skills needed to research their own informed decisions. The manual supports a whole-school approach and introduces a smoking education programme at a significant stage in children’s awareness of smoking. It provides guidance and support for the planning of a smoking education policy that integrates smoking education into the curriculum. It includes: 16 pupil activities for Key Stage 2, 3 staff training workshops, curriculum guidance, guidance on managing smoking-related incidents, policy guidance, guidance on working with parents or carers, teacher fact sheets and a list of agencies and resources. |
Smoke screen: strategies for working with 11-18 year olds in schools, colleges, youth projects and health settings
Audience: 11-18 This resource includes guidance for running smoking education programmes, running stop smoking groups and leaning activities to use with young people. Factsheets are included. |
The Healthy Mission CD-ROM
Audience: 5-11 This resource provides teachers with the knowledge and tools to deliver accurate, consistent and credible, healthy lifestyle messages to young people aged between six and eleven years (Key stages 1 & 2). Topics covered include healthy diet, exercise, risk taking and the dangers of alcohol and smoking. The resource contains a Teacher Pack with guidance on using the CD-ROM and sign posting information. |
ZONES: Board game
Audience: 11-15 years, although can be played by 16+. Ideally suited for 3 groups of 4-6 people. Zones is aimed at encouraging young people to think and talk about issues including: smoking, alcohol, drugs, sex and relationships. Includes: Counters and dice, 4 sets of cards and instructions |