Get Help to Quit Smoking

Extra Work: Getting Help to Quit Smoking (in your CD).


Video on I-tunes and the I-pod: "D.C. Smokers Get Help Quitting".

Video name on your CD: "D.C. Smokers Get Help Quitting" MPEG-4 File.

Exercise.
Watch the video and answer the questions below.

Questions about Context.
1- Mention some of the options offered to get some help to quit smoking.
2- What's the story about Gloria Albright?
3. Mention some of the risks related to smoking.
4. What does Debra Annand have to say about smoking and the treatments to quit?
5. What's Gloria's advice?

Vocabulary
Attitude. Noun.
Counseling. Noun.
Target. Verb.

Useful Phrases.
A number of times.
On my own.
Nicotine patches.
Way too many.
Will power

Soda Ban Explained

Extra Work: Soda Ban Explained (in your CD).
Video on I-tunes and the I-pod: "NYC Soda Ban Explained sort of-SD".

Video name on your CD: "NYC Soda Ban Explained sort of-SD" MPEG-4 File.

Exercise.
Watch the video and answer the questions below.

Questions about Context.
1- Could you please explain in your own words what Mayor Bloomberg tries doing to reduce obesity in New York City?
2- Which stores are subject to follow the new regulations? Why?
3- Why is it ok for Starbucks to keep selling its Venti size?
4- And how about the Oreo Vanilla Cookie Colada at Dunking Donuts? Why is it ok to sell that?
5- But what is the whole purpose of this new regulation?

Vocabulary
Ban. Noun.
Epidemic. Noun. 
Obesity. Noun.
Outlaw. Verb.

Useful Phrases.
Same deal.

Charles Duhigg and New Habits

Charles Duhigg and Habits.
Lesson 23.

Watch the following video showing how we can embrace a new good habit.



Vocabulary.
Cue. Noun.

Nora Volkow on Addictions

Nora Volkow on Addictions.
Lesson 25.
Exercise.
Tell us what she has to say about addictions, her childhood, her being a scientist as a woman.

Video.