L33 Psych 100B Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Nicotine Replacement Therapy, Varenicline, Biopsychosocial Model
12 Dec 2018
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Health psychology: relationship between health and behavior, cognition, development, emotion, and sleep. Psychological: smoking, diet, sedentary lifestyle, high stress levels. Using the biopsychosocial model of health, psychologists are able to help distance a person from an unhealthy behavior, such as tobacco use (smoking cessation programs) Biological: nicotine replacement products (patch, gum), prescription non-nicotine medication (chantix) Social: ads that help push individuals away from tobacco use, changing culture. Psychological: individual or group counseling, online programs, hypnosis. Video: for the sake of all: two lives of jasmine showing jason purnell"s research. Attempting to change the health system and disparity: Health promoting neighborhoods (markets with healthy food) Definition: the process of perceiving and responding to events that we consider threatening or challenging. Somatic: motor and sensory neurons, interact with the outside world. Parasympathetic: rest and relax - not as important. The sympathetic division of the nervous system prepares the body for action. The parasympathetic division returns the body to a resting state.
