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    I Don't Smoke!: A Guidebook to Break Your Addiction to Nicotine
    I Don't Smoke!: A Guidebook to Break Your Addiction to Nicotine
    I Don't Smoke!: A Guidebook to Break Your Addiction to Nicotine
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    I Don't Smoke!: A Guidebook to Break Your Addiction to Nicotine

    By Joseph Cruse

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    For those addicted to nicotine, the thought of being able to quit smoking and have fun while doing it has seemed impossible—until now. "I Don't Smoke!" offers a very different approach to smoking cessation: an approach that focuses on the smoker, not the nicotine; an approach that looks at quitting as a joyous adventure; an approach that will make smokers laugh and feel good while they free themselves from their addiction; an approach that works. Dr. Joseph Cruse, founding medical director of the Betty Ford Center, applies addiction recovery techniques in this guidebook that will help every addicted smoker to announce with confidence, "I don't smoke!"—and mean it.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHealth Communications Inc EB
    Release dateJan 4, 2010
    ISBN9780757395826
    I Don't Smoke!: A Guidebook to Break Your Addiction to Nicotine

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      Book preview

      I Don't Smoke! - Joseph Cruse

      My Cheering Squad

      Names and Phone Numbers of My Support System

      9780757395826_0002_0019780757395826_0003_001

      A Joyous Adventure

      "I Don't

      Smoke!"

      A Guidebook to

      Break Your Addition

      to Nicotine

      Joseph R. Cruse, M.D.

      9780757395826_0004_001

      www.hcibooks.com

      The information contained herein is provided for your general information only. This book does not give medical advice or engage in the practice of medicine. Under no circumstances do we recommend a particular treatment for specific individuals. In all cases we recommend that you consult your physician or local treatment center before pursuing any course of drug therapy for nicotine cessation, for example, nicotine replacement therapy.

      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Cruse, Joseph R., 1930-

      I don’t smoke! : a guidebook to break your addiction to nicotine / Joseph R. Cruse.

      p. cm.

      eISBN-13: 978-0-7573-9582-6       eISBN-10: 0-7573-9582-1

      1. Smoking cessation. 2. Nicotine addiction. I. Title.

      HV5740.C78 2009

      616.86'506—dc22

      2009025621

      ©2008, 2009 Joseph R. Cruse, M.D.

      All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the written permission of the publisher.

      HCI, its logos, and marks are trademarks of Health Communications, Inc.

      Publisher: Health Communications, Inc.

      3201 S.W. 15th Street

      Deerfield Beach, FL 33442–8190

      Cover design by Larissa Hise Henoch

      Interior design and formatting by Dawn Von Strolley Grove

      To Sharon

      The lady who saved my lungs, and more especially, my heart,

      for us to enjoy during the third third of my life.

      To Peggy

      Special thanks to artist Peggy Musegades

      for the fun we had doing the illustrations.

      I DON’T SMOKE!

      Most adult cigarette smokers wish they could say that . . .

      Eighty percent of adult smokers want to quit completely,

      according to a survey by Gallup and the National Centers

      for Disease Control and Prevention.

      But the nicotine in cigarettes is an addictive drug

      that makes quitting difficult . . . but not impossible.

      Contents

      Introduction

      1. What Are the Barriers to Being a Smoker Today?

      2. What Are My Reasons for Not Smoking?

      3. What Are the Difficulties in Quitting Smoking?

      4. What Are the Emotional Aspects of Not Smoking?

      5. What Are the Self-Worth Aspects of Not Smoking?

      6. How Do I Get Started?

      7. How Do I Train My Brain?

      8. How Do I Use My Emotions?

      9. How Do I Remain Mindful?

      10. How Do I Build Self-Worth and Practice Self-Care?

      Appendix A: Nicotine Replacement Therapy (NRT)

      Appendix B: Resources

      Appendix C: Good News

      Appendix D: Your Last Task

      Introduction

      "Hoping is active and wishing is passive.

      Hoping means seeing that the outcome you

      want is possible and then working for it.

      Wishing means just sitting, waiting for a

      miracle to happen out of the blue."

      —BERNIE SEIGEL, M.D.

      What This Book Is Not About

      This book is not full of depressing statistics on smoking, although some are mentioned. It is not about scaring you with diseases you can get from smoking, although some of those are mentioned. And it’s not about shocking you with graphic images of a jarful of tobacco tar or a cancerous lung. Instead, there are some fun drawings.

      What This Book Is About

      This book is about a very different approach to smoking cessation. It’s an approach that focuses on you—not the nicotine. It’s an approach that looks at quitting as a joyous adventure. After all, you’re going to be free of a serious addiction—like overthrowing a dictator. It’s an approach that will make you laugh and feel good while you are freeing yourself from your addiction. Most important, it’s an approach that works. People who have used this program had a high success rate at the end of one year. And they had a good time doing it. They can still say, I Don’t Smoke! So can you.

      Where This Approach Originated

      The approach behind I Don’t Smoke! began in 1984 at Onsite Training and Counsulting Counseling, now Onsite Workshops. That year, the company’s CEO notified the sixty-five full-time and part-time employees that Onsite staff who used nicotine in any form would be expected to be comfortably nicotine free by November 1985. This would include administrative and clinical staff. Smoking clients were also told that the program and facilities had become smoke free and that an ancillary support program and professional help for nicotine addiction were available to them.

      At that time Onsite and many other treatment programs had not seriously addressed the problem of nicotine addiction directly. Other drug problems, including alcoholism, eating disorders, and other mental health problems were more important and seemed to take precedence. Both the public and professional thinking was that the problem was just smoking, not addiction.

      Staff and clients largely accepted the announcement with little disagreement. They knew it was a logical policy, but the smokers were hesitant. They were not happy being caught in the change;

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