Healthylife® QuitWell™ Part 1 You may be reading this book because someone else wants you to. Maybe your spouse or other family member is worried about your health. Or maybe your employer is worried about rising healthcare costs. Maybe you’re just checking out some facts to decide if you want to quit. Whatever brought you […]
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Healthylife® QuitWell™ Part 3 Pharmaceutical: * Buproprion (brand names Zyban and Wellbutrin) is a prescription, non-nicotine pill. This medication is used to treat depression and help with quitting smoking. To use, begin taking 1 to 2 weeks before your quit date. It must build up in your system before you quit. It can be taken
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Healthylife® QuitWell™ Part 2 In this section, you were guided to understand the barriers you face with quitting. By carefully reading, thinking about each part, and answering questions along the way, you are getting yourself ready for success. * How have you prepared yourself to quit? Write the steps you have taken, mentally and physically,
Tobacco Cessation Until lately, many people assumed cigarette smoking was just a bad habit (albeit an unhealthy one). In 1988, the Surgeon General’s Report on Smoking and Health changed that view. After reviewing over 2,000 scientific studies, the report confirmed what many scientists suspected: Smoking cigarettes is addictive, because they contain nicotine. So in order
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Tobacco Cessation Not using tobacco is one of the best choices you can make for your health. Have you seen the commercial of a frail woman putting in dentures, placing a wig on her head, speaking with a voice box, and tying a scarf around a hole in her throat? She had surgery that removed
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Healthylife® QuitWell™ Part 5 Relapse triggers can be placed into one of four groups: 1. Emotional relapse triggers 2. Interpersonal relapse triggers 3. Internal relapse triggers 4. Environmental relapse triggers Emotional Relapse Triggers These are events in which either uncomfortable feelings, such as boredom, sadness and worry or positive feelings, such as joy, happiness, or
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Healthylife® QuitWell™ Part 5 Start to plan your response to slip-ups even before you have fully quit. Slip-ups are very common, especially in the first few weeks of trying to be tobacco/nicotine free. A slip-up is also called a ‘lapse’. The better you manage a lapse, the easier it will be to avoid full relapse.
Healthylife® QuitWell™ Part 1 It can be easy to stay in the day-to-day of our lives. Looking ahead can help you see further down the road at where you are headed. Think about how you picture the next year of your life and answer the questions below: * Who are the important people in your
Healthylife® QuitWell™ Part 3 Save your cigarette butts or spit from smokeless tobacco in a bottle or glass jar. You will learn what to do with these in the next part of this program. © American Institute for Preventive Medicine
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Healthylife® QuitWell™ Part 2 Keeping your motivation and values in mind is a great way to encourage yourself when quitting gets tough. Look for ways to connect your motivation and values to your attitude and actions. How do your attitudes and actions show what is important to you? If you feel there is a mismatch,
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