Stop Smoking and Chewing Tobacco for Life Changes [Paperback]

David L. Johnson (Author), Carole A. Johnson (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 26, 2000

Finally, a skills-based, innovative, tobacco-cessation and preventive maintenance workbook and tape program packed with powerful techniques, activities, and effective options for change! Learn to use affirmations, aversion, behavior mod, creativity, humor, hypnosis, relaxation, scripts, resources and more. Whether you use meds, nicotine-replacement, a formal program, a group, computer, or go it alone, LIFE CHANGES complements YOUR PLAN with the SKILLS for QUITTING ALL TOBACCO for LIFE!

Editorial Reviews

Review

"Confidence, Commitment, Competence, Creativity... keys to success are confined in this bible... I suggest LIFE CHANGES... -- Nancy B. Leake, Health-care Professional, Book Review for May at 2001 at writetimewriteplace

"You will stop smoking or chewing tobacco... with this compelling, skills-based, self-instructional workbook... -- LaWanna L. Blount, Ph.D., Polk County Enterprise, April 26,2001

"collection of nicotine-cessation techniques... truly awesome... over 120 exercises... -- Richard T. Karkut, Psy.D., Clinical Psychologist, North American Journal of Psychology, 2001

From the Publisher

Stop Smoking and Chewing Tobacco for LIFE CHANGES is a very creative and powerful approach to help some of us stop being our own worst enemy. The Johnsons hit upon the idea of focusing on ways to quit ALL tobacco products, but not by using cold medical data. They chose a self-instructional and guilt-free approach, one that emphasizes confidence and acquiring certain mental skills and methods in order to send a bad habit packing for good. They realize there's no "best" method to stop. How many methods do they use? Over 120 different ones are available to choose: hypnosis, aversion techniques, emotional control, making one's own personal "motivational" tapes, among many others. The authors wisely realized that the war on tobacco can't and won't end until a voice inside every user's head says, "Enough!" and says it fully and freely. For a book that will help set you on the road to a tobacco-free life, LIFE CHANGES, is the one!

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Product Details

• Paperback: 206 pages
• Publisher: Infinity Publishing.com (December 26, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0741404818
• ISBN-13: 978-0741404817
• Product Dimensions: 11 x 8.3 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #390,577 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #65 in Books > Health, Fitness & Dieting > Recovery > Smoking

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Great Journey on Life Changes, April 15, 2001

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"llb115" (Livingston, Texas USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Stop Smoking and Chewing Tobacco for Life Changes (Paperback)

Buy this book! ! ! You will want to stop smoking, or chewing tobacco and stay quit for total LIFE CHANGES! ! ! This work book program differs from other program in several ways. First, it includes examples and guidelines for most of the tobacco-cessation techniques available for self-instruction and includes a number of new ones. Second, it focuses on ALL tobacco products, not just smoking and not just cigarettes. Third, the authors provide us with over 100 different techniques and activities that can be learned and used in combination for cessation behavior. Finally, the authors provide us with strategies for using two powerful clinical techniques- aversion and hypnosis- for tobacco cessation behavior. The workbook, along with the model hypnosis tape program provides the user with core cessation tools, exercises and activities, with which to build his/her customized and creative tobacco-cessation and preventive maintenance plan for life.

Based on the premise that there is no one theory of human behavior that will sufficiently explain all tobacco use and cessation behavior, this program offers a powerful multi component approach. The program is founded on three principles. The first principle, and to this reviewer, the most compelling one is, THE TOBACCO IS THE PROBLEM, NOT YOURSELF ! Thus, the user can apply this principle and learn to turn negative emotions and thinking against tobacco, rather than becoming frustrated with self perceived shortcomings. The program contains a variety of types of aversion, relaxation, hypnosis, stress-reduction, problem solving, behavioral modification exercises and humorous and creative exercises to build and reinforce tobacco-cessation behavior and personal resources for life.

This program is highly recommended!!. It can be used by any individual with nicotine-repellent products; or with groups ; health care education programs, counseling and therapy programs, dental programs, community education programs, or university courses, as a text-workbook program. The program is structured so that each individual directs his/her program of activities and exercises that are best suited for him/her on the way to LIFE CHANGES.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Definitive Manual for Persons with Tobacco Addictions, October 10, 2003

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Granville W. Angell (Vale, NC USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Stop Smoking and Chewing Tobacco for Life Changes (Paperback)

In our modern-day addictive culture, it is no small wonder that the quick-fix approaches to stopping tobacco use are so often ineffective. Typically, these approaches are reflective of the instant gratification orientation of our society. People pay big money for patches, pills, programs and purges, while expecting an intractable addiction that may have taken a lifetime to develop to just suddenly go away. For those who have come to understand that ending tobacco addiction is not like having results served like fast-food, there is a powerful option that offers a high predictability of success.

Stop Smoking and Chewing Tobacco for LIFE CHANGES, by David L. Johnson, Ph.D., and Carole A. Johnson, ID, is the definitive manual for those who truly wish to recover from their tobacco addictions. Written with candor, erudition and wit, the book takes the smoker (chewer, or dipper) by the hand and authoritatively walks him or her through a comprehensive but doable process that not only fleeces the person of a life-threatening habit - but builds in life enhancement skills that surpass any rewards they may have perceived in their tobacco use.

The 206 page quality paperback pursues a step-by-step process that begins with an orientation to the program, including a convincing review of current knowledge pertaining to the health and economic consequences of tobacco use that should strip away every last vestige of motivation for tobacco use in any sane person. We then find preparations for stopping use which cover every aspect of an individual's lifestyle that supports use and that might undermine the stopping process. Here, and throughout the book, the Johnsons have included worksheets that facilitate insight, individualized understanding of the process, and personalized application of the program to ensure success. The comprehensiveness of their approach is also found in their explanation of every strategic option that can be included in a person's individualized program, including the responsible and effective integration of nicotine-replacement products like patches, gums, inhalers, and other cessation pharmaceuticals that are less effective when used alone.

Once understanding, confidence and a sense of competence have been established in the reader, the book moves into program strategies involving exercises that include powerful hypnotic imagery to undermine attraction for tobacco products and replace destructive behaviors with life-enhancing ones. Indeed, just reading the exercises - without taping and playing them in a relaxation/induction process - is enough to sicken the reader against the use of tobacco products for life! However, it is recommended that the reader individualize the exercises, as specified, and follow through with the authors' expert instructions. Incidentally, without going into detail regarding current research, the design of the exercises - including content and strategies - reveals a sophisticated understanding on the part of the authors with regard to subconscious learning processes and the power such processes can have on behavior change.

Finally, knowledge, process, and competence are blended into a creative integration that serves to develop a lifestyle that leaves no openings for a return to tobacco-using behavior. This leaving-no-stone-unturned approach to tobacco cessation impresses me as the most comprehensive and reliable option available.

Throughout, self-defeating thinking patterns are broken down and replaced with positive, life-enhancing ones in a process that makes this book a hallmark in the annals of stop-smoking strategies: it takes a total lifestyle approach to the problem. This total lifestyle approach demonstrates the Johnsons' understanding of what is necessary to tackling tobacco addiction in the way a surgeon understands the approach to cutting away a cancer - every part of the threatening tumor (thinking/feeling/behavior) must be removed or the life-threatening condition will spring anew and attack with a vengeance.

Unlike the less predictable, quick-fix, approaches to tobacco cessation, the Johnsons' Stop Smoking and Chewing Tobacco for LIFE CHANGES offers lifestyle-oriented strategies that address the unique needs of every user in a warm and readable format that offers the best of what's out there. Unlike other approaches that require a full commitment before purchase, this book has such powerful introductory content that I would recommend it to those who are only thinking of stopping their tobacco use. At a modest $19.95 retail (US), I cannot suggest a more economic, powerfully effective, approach to stopping nicotine addiction and saving lives.

Granville Angell, EdS, LPC, NCC
Licensed Professional Counselor
Author of The God-Shaped Hole

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars "CHECK THIS OUT!", March 10, 2002

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This review is from: Stop Smoking and Chewing Tobacco for Life Changes (Paperback)

"I was very ready to quit smoking many times in my life. When I began to read Stop Smoking and Chewing Tobacco for LIFE CHANGES, I realized I was reading something very new and different! This book appeals to anyone who needs a fresh approach to "just quitting" Through the use of LIFE CHANGES, I was able to really look at my motives and emotional needs surrounding smoking. The program put me on a path filled with information and humor which I could understand and build upon, using my own creativity. I was amazed at how enjoyable it was to participate in the planning and management of my own program. You will find everything in this book you need to know to finally end this "awful" dependency!"