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Assignment: Cigarette Smoking Screencast
When a person smokes, almost every single organ in his or her body is affected by the dangerous chemicals. Cigarette smoking is a lifestyle factor known to cause an increased risk of death and disease (US Department of Health and Human Services & Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2004). Read Chapter 11 and review "The Health Consequences of Smoking" article from this week's reading.
Next, imagine you are employed as a worksite wellness professional for a major organization. The organization recently adopted a policy to make the campus smoke free. To help support this effort, you have decided to develop a screencast video to present to all employees that will:
• Define the major health risks associated with cigarette smoking.
• Examine the health benefits of smoking cessation.
• Explain the impact of a smoke-free environment for all employees on wellness.
• Explain how behavior change theories can be used to evaluate a person's readiness to quit smoking.
• Explain the importance of role modeling positive lifestyle habits.
• Explain one way to motivate change at each stage of the stages of change model.
• Describe two smoking cessation aids.
For this assignment, you will be creating a screencast using Jing, Screencast-o-matic, or an alternative program with audio.
To begin, you will need to create your PowerPoint presentation. Then, you will use Jing, Screencast-o-matic, or an alternative program with audio to record the audio portion as you go through the presentation. This assignment should be 4 to 5 minutes in length. Include a minimum of three scholarly sources that are cited according to APA format as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center. Include a title and reference slide within the presentation. When you have completed your presentation recording, copy and paste the screencast URL into a Word document. Your Word document should also contain the correct APA citations for your sources. Submit the Word document to your instructor by Day 7.