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SmokeFree Clinical
Updates
Updated July 11, 2002
Stop Smoking Benefits
What benefits are you looking forward to? In what ways
will your life be richer by virtue of being smoke-free? Take this opportunity
to share your goals with others - and be inspired by theirs.
“How-To-Stop-Smoking
Advice” and “Stop-Smoking Tips”
When you see such stock phrases, consider what follows them with a cautious
eye. While well intentioned, the one-fits-all perspective that is implicit
in them suggests views on smoking and the smoking-cessation process that
often do not hold water.
For example, the fundamental, and most erroneous, assumption such “advice”
or “tips” make is that there is a significant degree of homogeneity among
smokers, i.e. they assume that all smokers light up for the same reason
and their experience of the smoking process has been and is identical.
That is markedly inconsistent with my experience of smokers over these
past 20 years. Each and every smoker has his or her own reason - or mosaic
of reasons - for lighting up. These reasons typically reflect an effort
to cope with a unique and complex mixture of current perceptions and experiences
as well as those they have had over the course of their lifetime. In addition,
the impulse to smoke frequently reflects an effort to cope with a wide
variety of both conscious and unconscious factors – factors that often
impact on other aspects of how the individual lives as well.
Another invalid assumption such “advice” or “tips” implicitly suggest
is that what may be helpful to other smokers in their efforts to become
smoke-free will be equally helpful to you. Presumably, all you need to
do is pick and choose amongst the suggestions. By chance, some pre-determined
suggestions may be helpful. However, with the wide variety of factors
influencing your decision to smoke or not to - and how much, it’s more
likely than not that any given suggestion will be (1) irrelevant to your
particular smoking experience and (2) not sensitive to the subtle nuances
of your particular smoking-cessation needs. That’s wasteful of your time,
energies and monies. What is optimal is a treatment approach that, from
the beginning, focuses on the identification of your unique smoking-related
issues and that gives them the attention they deserve.
What Stop Smoking Benefits Are You Seeking?
Perspectives on Smoking Cessation
Some
Frequently Asked Questions
Your Smoking Cessation
Challenges
SmokeFree
Clinical Updates
(Updated July
2002)
Archives
of the SmokeFree Clinical Updates
(Through June 2002)
Regarding
"How-To-Stop-Smoking Advice" and "Stop-Smoking
Tips"
Links
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My
Background and Practice
Disclaimer
Jesse J. Tepper,
Ph.D.
300 Central
Park West
New York, NY 10024
212-787-5250
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