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Healthylife® QuitWell™ Part 4 Start with changing how you react to minor annoyances, like traffic or a chatty co-worker. Work to reduce the number of things that push your buttons. It is not the event itself that determines your feelings-it is what you tell yourself about it. You may have some truly big, serious stressors […]
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Healthylife® QuitWell™ Part 6 Banish the Bully in Your Head Imagine you have a parrot. This parrot repeats everything you say about yourself, over and over again. It comments on your life, especially the things that go wrong. For example, you snap at a co-worker and say something you later regret. The parrot squawks, “You
Healthylife® QuitWell™ Part 5 Creative imagination is the acting out of an event or activity in your mind before it really happens. It allows you to work through the event or activity ahead of time so that you will be better prepared to deal with it. Many athletes practice an upcoming game in their heads
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Healthylife® QuitWell™ Part 4 While there is no healthy level of tobacco/nicotine use, it can be helpful to cut back before quitting completely. This allows you to: * Reduce the amount of tobacco/nicotine your body must process every day, reducing the damage and toxic load on the body. * Practice strategies without the pressure of
Healthylife® QuitWell™ Part 4 Many people use tobacco to manage stress-and return to old habits in times of stress. If you currently use tobacco/nicotine products to manage stress, it is very likely your mind will go there in times of stress in the future. If you have quit, having a plan for when stress increases
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Healthylife® QuitWell™ Part 4 Remember, an “okay” plan today beats a “great” plan tomorrow. Use this template to write out your quit plan. By this point, you probably know most of your expected triggers during the day. Write both your planned urge tamer/response to the trigger and another idea to try, in case you need
Healthylife® QuitWell™ Part 2 Anxiety is a feeling of dread, fear, or distress over a real or imagined threat to your mental or physical well-being. Smoking, chewing, or vaping may be a way that you have coped in the past with these feelings. At all stages of change, you can learn to address anxiety in
Healthylife® QuitWell™ Part 4 Actions, especially habits, are linked. For example, you may light up a cigarette without thinking when you start your car, end a meal, drink coffee, or hear your alarm clock. If you dip or use other forms of tobacco/nicotine, you may have similar triggers. Altering triggers can help you break your
Healthylife® QuitWell™ Part 2 Learn what is pulling you toward your goal and what is holding you back. All thoughts and feelings are valid. Is your goal more important to you than the challenges to achieve it? Are you pursuing this goal just because someone said you “should” do it? Complete the chart below as
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Healthylife® QuitWell™ Part 5 Learn the differences between passive, aggressive, and assertive communication. Passive * You lack expression for yourself. * You do not stand up for your rights and needs. Result: You usually do not achieve your goal. You may feel like someone is walking all over you. Aggressive * You stand up for
