Addiction

Action Plan for Smart Goals
As part of the program, you will develop your own set of personal SMART goals, in essence personal goals that are smart, measurable, action-oriented, realistic and timely.

Breaking the Cycle of Addiction
If you are trapped in a cycle of overeating or substance use that feels beyond your control, you will learn how to break the cycle in five different ways. You will learn active strategies and effective skills to plan for triggers without engaging in addictive behavior. You will learn distraction and affirmation techniques to check obsessive thoughts and techniques that will help you gain freedom from compulsive behavior.

Challenging Self-Defeating Behaviors
In the past, self-defeating behaviors may have resulted in a short-term pay-off that felt good, but at what long-term price? This workshop helps you to identify these self-defeating behaviors and to understand the short-term gain vs. the long term loss. Here, you’ll learn to overcome these self-defeating behaviors and to change them for long-term, healthy lifestyle change.

Identifying Supporters and Saboteurs
This workshop will help you identify those people in your life who will help you along the road to optimal health and those who will hinder it. You’ll learn to be accountable to yourself and those who are your supporters, and you’ll learn how to deal effectively with saboteurs. You’ll gain valuable insight to your own efforts to sabotage your success and you’ll learn new techniques on how to overcome them and how you can better support your new lifestyle.

Journal to Optimal Health
A journal can be an impartial sounding board, a confidant and a companion on the journey to optimal health. Not all journaling strategies work for all people. In this workshop you will learn ten different methods of journal keeping to help support you in clarifying your values, setting goals and keeping records of your success. You will learn journaling strategies to motivate, dispute cognitive distortions and support your body image changes.

Keys to a Smoke-Free Life
In this lecture you will learn about the neurochemical difference between nicotine and tobacco dependence and why it is considered a chronic medical disease. You’ll also learn about nicotine medication safety, the natural history of tobacco dependence, nicotine withdrawal symptoms, and how medications are used to suppress nicotine withdrawal symptoms.

Relapse Prevention
This lecture helps you to identify the red flags of “a slip” vs. a “relapse”, and it provides techniques to help you get through these crucial periods in order to get back on track.

Stand Up for Your Health─Increasing Assertiveness
During this workshop you will learn and practice new ways of saying “no” to unhealthy behaviors. You will learn to set new limits and boundaries, and you will learn the importance of making yourself and your health a top priority in your life.

Triggers Workshop
This lecture will help you define the many different types of triggers associated with smoking and provide you with strategies on how to deal with them.