During Red Ribbon Week, our Colonels from BCMS and BCHS learned about the dangers of vaping as they visited a giant inflatable replica of a lung. The Health/P.E classes from the high school traveled down to the middle school for their lesson. Children learned how nicotine can harm the developing adolescent brain, mainly the parts of the brain that control attention, learning, mood, and impulse control.The brain keeps developing until about age 25. When a person is addicted to nicotine and stops using it, their body and brain have to adapt to not having nicotine. Which can result in temporary symptoms of nicotine withdrawal. Symptoms include, irritability, restlessness, feeling anxious or depressed, trouble sleeping, problems concentrating, and the constant craving of nicotine. People may continue to use these tobacco products to help relieve the symptoms. Youth may turn to vaping to try to deal with stress or anxiety, which in turn creates a cycle of nicotine dependence, although the nicotine addiction can develop into a source of stress.
The Kentucky Cancer Program allowed students to do a walk through of an inflatable replica of a colon and learned about the start and progress of colon cancer. Pictures were depicted inside of the colon containing facts about colon cancer, advanced colon cancer, crohn’s disease, and much more. What is colon cancer? Colon cancer is a cancer of the colon or rectum, which may begin as noncancerous polyps. Colorectal cancer is a growth of cells that forms in the lower end of the digestive tract. Most of these cancers start as noncancerous growths called polyps, removing these polyps can prevent cancer.
