Kicking It

by Geisinger, David L.

• ISBN13: 9781587410161
• ISBN10: 1587410168
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-01-01
• Publisher: Wellness Inst

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	11	(2)
Introduction	13	(4)
Claude M. Steiner
Foreword	17	(12)
Fresh(wo)man	29	(22)
Cooperating with Your Own Best Interests	29	(2)
Self Deceptions and How to Counter Them	31	(9)
Six Basic Rationalizations	32	(6)
A Further Look at Rationalization	38	(2)
The Influence of Advertising	40	(6)
The Unmasking Process	41	(1)
Unmasking Ads: The Text	42	(4)
Preliminaries to Changing	46	(1)
Pitfalls	47	(1)
Exercises	47	(4)
Sophomore	51	(22)
The First Cutback	51	(1)
The Health Bank	52	(2)
Selecting an ``Anticigarette''	54	(1)
The Self versus the Robot Smoker	54	(3)
The Role of Hypnosis	57	(3)
The Myth of Symptom Substitution	60	(3)
Undermining the Robot Smoker	63	(3)
Unmasking Ads: The Names	66	(5)
Pitfalls	71	(1)
Exercises	71	(2)
Junior	73	(26)
Smoking: Bad Habit or Addiction?	73	(2)
A Hidden Destroyer: Autonomic Conditioning	75	(3)
An Experiment in Autonomic Conditioning	78	(2)
Way Back When: Recalling Your First Cigarettes	80	(1)
The Second Cutback	81	(2)
Self Alliance	82	(1)
The Allies	83	(10)
Relaxation Breathing	83	(1)
Relaxation Imagery	84	(1)
The Pacifier	85	(2)
Physical Exercise	87	(4)
Blockading	91	(1)
The Unmasking Game	92	(1)
Coming Alive Again	93	(2)
Pitfalls	95	(1)
Exercises	95	(4)
Senior-Graduation	99	(34)
Habit Breaking as a Process	100	(1)
Decontextualizing: A Fresh View of Smoking	101	(1)
Smoking ``The Last'' Cigarette	102	(3)
Nurturing and Protecting the Self	105	(2)
Breaking the Hand-to-Mouth Connection	107	(1)
The First Week of Not Smoking	108	(2)
Charting the Course of Your Progress	110	(6)
The Hallmarks of Habit Breaking	111	(1)
The First Negative Surge Toward Smoking Again	112	(1)
Avoiding a False Sense of Security: The Plunge	112	(2)
The Plateau: Preparing for the Next Improvement	114	(1)
Additional Negative Surges	114	(1)
The Trend Line: An Estimate of Progress	115	(1)
The Four RuSes	116	(3)
Unmasking Ads: The Image	119	(10)
More Ads, More Lies	126	(3)
The Co-Predators and Their Prey	129	(2)
Pitfalls	131	(1)
Exercises	131	(2)
Graduate School	133	(16)
The Spoiler	133	(4)
Dealing with Gallows Humor	137	(1)
Some Food for Thought	138	(7)
Sources of Self Help	145	(1)
Pitfalls	146	(1)
Exercises	147	(2)
Postgraduate	149	(20)
Never Again: The Three Stages to Staying Stopped	149	(18)
Pitfall	167	(1)
Exercise	167	(2)
Professorship	169	(16)
Cancer	169	(2)
Emphysema and Chronic Bronchitis	171	(1)
Miscellaneous Health Issues	172	(3)
Effects of Smoking on Infants and Children	175	(1)
Demography and General Statistics	176	(2)
Advertising	178	(1)
Politics and Economics	179	(2)
Life Expectancy	181	(4)
Index	185