Weekly Assignments

Week 1 - Part 1

🔆Learning Objectives

• Introductions "My name is ... and I took my very first breath with my Brand New Baby Pink Lungs & Gums™  in ... 

• Review class syllabus, liquid class syllabus and Desire 2 Learn Brightspace. The Liquid Class Syllabus, D2L Brightspace and weekly PowerPoints contain many examples of former student's vision boards peppered throughout.

• Create a safe space where all are needed and valued!  Squeal!  We are so glad that you are here! 

• Increase our ability to invite most individuals to explore their relationship with tobacco and/or nicotine.

• View What Are the Stages of Change? | Quit Smoking to help us select the best person to coach!

🪶 Assignments

Complete Assignments 1 & 2 

• Assignment 1. Gentle invitation to explore our own relationship with smoke, chew and/or vape.

• Assignment 2. "Select The Best Person to Coach" Google Forms

  • • Invite a person in contemplation stage of change to explore their relationship with these products by asking them the following. "Would you be willing to explore your relationship with smoke, chew, and/or vape to help us better understand individual's relationships with these products - and ultimately to help me pass my class?" Complete the Google Form.

    • Best participants are in Contemplation Stage of Change and willing to commit 1.5 to 3 hours per week for 4 weeks, possibly 5 weeks.

🪶 Discussions 

• Introduction Discussion - Located in D2L, Course Information Module, Introduction Discussion (Due at the beginning of Week2)

🪶 Pre-survey

• TMSM Week 1 Survey (Due at the beginning of Week 2) Google Forms

🪶Quizzes

Course Info Quiz - located in D2L, Course Information Module.

• Course Information Quiz (Due at the beginning of Week 2)

Module 1 Quiz located in D2L Brightspace, Module 1.

• Module 1 Quiz (Due at the beginning of Week 2)

All assignments, Discussions, and Quizzes are also located in the D2L Coursework tab.

Week 1 - Part 2

🔆Learning Objectives

• Review Selecting The Best Person to Coach.

• Discover the benefits of journaling our use - the first step toward exploring our relationship with these products.

  • • Understand how the importance of gathering all 6 data points of use (listed in Module 2 Assignments below) for one day will provide a win win for us  to determine level of use; mild, moderate or severe. And for our person to better understand their relationship with smoke, chew and/or vape.

1. Analyze an example of a completed use journal and interpret the 6 data points.

2. Understand the difference between habit vs. actual physical needs aka cravings.

3. Discover how these findings may be helpful going forward.

• View The Earth is Not Disposable: Nicotine Vape Waste 

• If time permits view The Environmental Impact of Cigarette Butts to help us understand how waste from these products have a huge impact on our environment.

• Review Rutgers University Center for Tobacco 9-page Assessment - for informational purposes only.

🪶Assignments

Complete Assignments 3 & 4

• Assignment 3.  Invite your chosen person to journal their use FOR ONE DAY! Capture all 6 data points!

• • • • • Include time of wake, 

        • time of first use, 

        • time of each event, 

        • number of puffs at each event

        • level of need at each event and 

        • identify emotion prior to event.

We will use your person's findings in Week 2 check in by determining whether your person's relationship with their product is; mild, moderate and/or severe.

• Assignment 4. Agreement to Dispose of Waste as Appropriately As Possible

  • • Have your chosen person complete their Agreement To Dispose of Waste Appropriately.  

NOTE:  BE GENTLE - "ALL DATA IS DELICIOUS DATA!"

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📌Your and your person's "Vision Board" is Due in Week 3 & 4 Gentle Suggestion 

Gentle consideration - Begin creating the vision board by adding an image each assignment relative to the assignment so all that is left to do is present your final presentation in week 3 & 4! 

Use your assignments  1 or 2 DAP note to write your introduction; your person, the stage of change they appear to be in at the beginning of class. What they use (chew, smoke, vape) and perhaps any surprises they or you found - for example 

1. Their surprise to learn that vape products are made of single use plastic with toxins in them so it is not recommended they NOT be placed in landfills rather placed in red hazardous containers.

2. Their surprise to notice any patterns from their use.

3. Any surprises that you as a coach found enlightening! How important it is that we all talk about this topic.

📌Optional Bonus Points (20 points) This assignment is due at the beginning of the class in Week 5.

You will have the option to write two letters to the legislature regarding the need to address vape waste. More detailed information will be provided in week 3. (This assignment is worth a potential of 20 bonus points).

Week 2 -- Part 1

🔆Learning Objectives  

• Celebrate the courage our chosen person has demonstrated by participating in this discovery.

• Check-in - Any surprises? Findings from Use Journals in Week 2 - mild, moderate, severe.

• Participate in a live experiential tobacco or nicotine assessment. 

• Volunteers are needed pls!!!

• Understand the epidemiology of tobacco, ceremonial vs. commercial and first, second and third hand smoke. 

• View Traditional Tobacco Use in Aboriginal Cultures.

🪶Assignments

Complete Assignments 5.

• Assignment # 5.  My Chew, Smoke, Vape Assessment (minimum of 3 pages).

• • • • • Page 1 - age at first use vs. regular use.

        • Page 2, 3 and/or 4 Smoke, Chew, and/or Vape Assessment (the product our chosen person uses the most).

        • Page 5 Measuring level of importance, health concerns, readiness for change and confidence in reducing use.

🔆Learning Objectives  

Week 2 - Part 2

• Check-in - Any surprises? Findings from Volunteers on Live Experiential Assessment.

• Who the tobacco industry targets.

• Replacement Smokers

• Impact of use on the brain.

• Experience what having COPD feels like - people with COPD do not get to put the coffee stirrer down.

• View Tobacco:  Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

• Dr. Gabor Mate's - the addiction to money and power. The tobacco industry is an excellent example.

🪶Assignments

Complete Assignments 6 & 7

• • • Assignment # 6.  The True Cost of Our Use & How Long It Would Take to Achieve A Dream

    • Assignment # 7.  Additional Benefits - Reconnecting with Our Baby Pink Lungs & Gums

    • View video How Smoking Kills

🔆Learning Objectives  

Week 3 Part 1

• Check-in - Did anything come up for you from the terms "Replacement Smokers." "If they've got lips we want them." We reserve the right to smoke for the poor, people of color and the less educated. Guadalupe paraphrased to use a gentler language.

• View What's in Cigarette Smoke? | City of Hope to begin discovering what chemicals are found in cigarettes. 

• Statistics. the impact of use on our most vulnerable populations. 

• View What Vaping Does to the Body to understand how our body works and what we know about vaping so far.

• View Smoking Kills The Bryan Curtis story to understand one person's lost dreams.

🪶Assignments

Complete Assignments 8.

• • Assignment # 8.  The Chemical Hunt - Locate a household product that contains a chemical found in cigarette smoke, chew and/or vape. Identify the following.

    • • Product - Brand Name

      • What the household product is used for.

      • The chemical that is found in chew, smoke and/or vape products that is also found in the household product.

View Gruen's Story video on chew.

🔆Learning Objectives  

Week 3 Part 2

• View  Pharmacist/Client Discussion on NRT to learn the benefits and proper use of Nicotine Replacement Therapies.

• 12 Step 

• Study using Virtual Technology.

• View a section of Michael Sealey's  Stop Smoking Self Hypnosis (Quit Now Session) to understand the fork in the road and how looking ahead at continued use vs. a life without use and what that would look like.

• Heroes Review the stories of heroes who have paid the ultimate price. Bryan, Gruen, Nathan, Pam and Terri

  • • • View Barb Tarbox: A life cut short by tobacco

      • View Gruen's Story video on chew.

🪶Assignments

• Complete Assignment 9.

  • • Assignment # 9.  Previous Attempts to Reduce Our Use

Putting it all together. Reflect on all we have covered

• • • Assignment # 10.  Begin working on Our Chosen Person's Vision Board. 

      • • Sign-up on the Final Presentations Sign-up Sheet Google Docs

        • Upload your and your person's vision board to D2L by Sunday, March 29th to give us time to make it 100% accessible.

📌Optional Bonus Points (20 points) This assignment is due at the end of the class in Week 5.

You will have the option to write two letters to the legislature regarding the need to address vape waste. This assignment is worth a potential of 20 bonus points.  

• • Bonus Points - You have the option to write two letters to the legislature regarding the need to address vape waste. Detailed information will be available in Module 3. This assignment is worth a potential of 20 bonus points.  

🔆Learning Objectives  

Week 4

• Our and Our Chosen Person's Vision

• There are a lot of examples of former student vision boards peppered throughout the course as well as in the Module titled Former Student Vision Boards.

Week 8🪶Assignments

• Complete the following assignments.

Final Presentation (55 points)  An opportunity to demonstrate what we learned in the form of a final presentation!

• You are being asked to create a final presentation and present it in week 4.

• • • The following are some options for you to pick from when creating your vision board. 

    • Pls note - creativity is encouraged!  PowerPoints, songs, items, videos, poems, giant wallets that hold big bills to represent the money saved!

Option A

The final presentation will be of your and your person's experience as they explored their relationship with tobacco/nicotine products.  One example would be visuals of your person's Past, Current and/or Future relationship with these products. What they found was most helpful and how their view of these products has shifted. ... 

Option B

The final presentation will mostly represent you as the student going through the process of empowering the person you invited to explore their relationship with tobacco/nicotine.  What was that like for you? Has your confidence in inviting most people to explore their relationship with these lethal products increased? 

Students who are not presenting will be asked to provide feedback in writing to those presenting thus it is vital that every student be present throughout the course and especially in week 4. Because you bring value!

Gentle Suggestion 

Create the vision board by adding an image each assignment relative to the assignment so all that is left to do is present your final presentation in week 4!