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Joshua C. Klapow (Author), Ph.D. Sheri D. Pruitt (Author)
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"...an easy to read and easy to follow guide to healthier living...a gateway to improving the health of all." -- -- Robert Pearl, MD, Executive Director and CEO, The Permanente Medical Group

"...helps readers achieve significant and lasting change in health-related habits...a long overdue contribution that readers will find informative and empowering." -- -- George S. Everly, Jr, PhD, The Johns Hopkins Center forPublic Health Preparedness, The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, TheJohns Hopkins School of Medicine

"The book provides guidance for anyone who decides they want to change...[it] provides guidance on how to handle tough situations." -- -- Robert G. Frank, Ph.D., Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs & Provost

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The myriad of books and programs that encourage people to stop smoking, get organized, spend less, or exercise more tend to focus on what or why to change, but rarely explain how to change. Living SMART provides this missing piece. Developed by two behavioral psychologists, the program offers a set of practical tools drawn from science, not faddish ideas, that help readers successfully change any unhealthy behavior. Composed of five essential behavioral initiatives — Set a goal, Monitor your progress, Arrange your world for success, Recruit a support team, Treat yourself — the program is built on the idea that successful change takes more than mere motivation. Containing helpful tips, checklists, exercises, and progress charts, this simple, step-by-step book enables readers to take control of their lives and make positive, permanent changes. A companion website provides additional information, tips, and downloadable forms.

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  • Paperback: 208 pages
  • Publisher: DiaMedica; 1 edition (October 28, 2007)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0979356407
  • ISBN-13: 978-0979356407
  • Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.5 x 0.7 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #991,615 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Steps to healthy habits, quick and easy, November 8, 2007
By E. Withers (Georgia, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Living SMART: Five Essential Skills to Change Your Health Habits Forever (Paperback)
When I first started reading this book, I must confess that I was somewhat skeptical. Being middle-aged and overweight, I've read so many books on losing weight and eating right, etc. This book, however, is delightfully different. First, it's simple. The SMART skills are easy to remember, and they apply to any healthy habit the reader might want to begin. Second, the charts and questionnaires are informative and useful. Having them available on the website is an added bonus. Third, this book reads quickly and doesn't overwhelm the reader with a bunch of scientific research that I could frankly care less about. Just tell me what I need to do, and that's what this book does.
Halfway through the book, I found a small notebook and recorded three positive things that happened today. I then proceeded to clean off my treadmill and get on it for the first time in months. After that, I settled back with an apple to read the rest of the book. Those are positive changes already! With the motivators in the book and the advice on what to do when drifting from the goal, I just may be able to keep up these healthy habits.

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3.0 out of 5 stars A Good Introduction with Some Flaws, December 10, 2007
This review is from: Living SMART: Five Essential Skills to Change Your Health Habits Forever (Paperback)
Written by two clinical psychologists, "Living SMART" promises to give its readers "simple skills to successfully make positive health or lifestyle changes." And, for the most part, it does. Klapow and Pruitt have created a simple, intuitive system (encapsulated in the mnemonic SMART, which I won't explain here as other reviewers have already covered it below) to help readers achieve such difficult modern day goals as losing weight, eating right, and getting enough sleep. Yes, their system is mostly common sense, but the beauty of this book is in stressing, again and again, that just knowing something will not help one accomplish it. Only through systematic repetition, monitoring of one's progress, and the ability to recognize when one's motivation is slipping (and how to get it back), can one effect real, lasting change. I cannot stress how appreciative I am that the authors acknowledge that making any lasting change will take perseverance and work; there is no quick fix.

Unfortunately, there are a few flaws in the book which prevent it from attaining perfection. First, the authors assume that those around the reader will be uniformly supportive of the reader's goals. As anyone who's ever tried to quit smoking in a household where other family members don't want to give up the habit, or get to bed at a decent time when a husband or friend doesn't want to forego the traditional late night drinking or movie sessions, can attest, not everyone will automatically get on board when one tries to make a change for the better. In fact, they may actively try to undermine one's efforts. Yet Klapow and Pruitt offer no suggestions or strategies for dealing with such situations, making this book much less useful to any reader whose family and friends aren't behind them 100 percent.

The other flaw is the frequent word-for-word repetition of paragraphs throughout the text (check out pages 47 and 152-53 for an example). This means readers are getting less book than the page count alone would suggest. While it could be argued that this removes the need to to flip back and forth between chapters, the authors could have made more of an effort to reword the passages instead of cutting-and-pasting them wholesale.

It's unfortunate that these two flaws mar an otherwise excellent book. But with those caveats out of the way, I can say that "Living SMART" can give readers the tools they'll need to help making positive lifestyle changes.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Not Your Typical Smart Goals, February 22, 2008
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Overall, this book is as interesting and as motivating as a book can be about health behavior modification. In graduate school I took a required course in health behavior and health education, which I found to be dreadfully boring and for the most part, unhelpful. In the class I learned the traditional SMART acronym (Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Realistic and Timely) for setting goals. Hands down, I believe this SMART system (Set a goal, Monitor your progress, Arrange your world for success, Recruit a support team, and Treat yourself) will be more effective at motivating individuals to make changes in their health than traditional SMART goals. I only wish I had used this book in the course I took in graduate school - it would have made the class so much more interesting and useful in my everyday life!
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5.0 out of 5 stars The end result is a life plan that is highly customized to suit one's individual needs.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Living SMART is Psychology for Living
I have recommended this book to numerous clients. Klapow & Pruitt have made Cognitive Behavioral Therapy easy for anyone to understand and apply to his or her daily life. Read more
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