Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy, Mindfulness, and Hypnosis for Smoking Cessation

A proven program to help smokers quit for life, based in cognitive-behavior therapy

Cognitive-Behavior Therapy, Mindfulness, and Hypnosis for Smoking Cessation outlines a cost-effective program designed that helps smokers achieve their goal of life-long abstinence from smoking. The authors - noted experts in the field - developed their program, The Winning Edge, a proven treatment for tobacco addiction that uses cognitive-behavioral approaches to defeat smoking behaviors.

This proven program is based on the premise that acceptance and mindfulness of the constantly changing stream of thoughts and emotions (rather than avoidance of anxiety arousing or painful experiences) are the keys to breaking the grip of smoking. The program also includes a Hypnosis component, which involves thinking, imagining, and experiencing in response to suggestions that can target cognitive, behavioral, and affective change. Participants employ the program's strategies tactically to increase their motivation and to learn the skills needed to draw on personal resources to resist smoking urges and to stop smoking for life. This important resource:

• Offers an overview of the health risks of smoking
• Explains the various strategies of The Winning Edge program, mindfulness, acceptance, and hypnosis
• Includes information on a smoking cessation intervention in behavioral and cognitive-behavioral techniques and self-hypnosis
• Contains an effective smoking cessation program developed over the course of thirty years by two experts in the field

Written for psychologists working with clients who want to stop smoking, Cognitive-Behavior Therapy, Mindfulness, and Hypnosis for Smoking Cessation offers a provenintervention grounded in cognitive-behavioral approaches, hypnosis, motivational interviewing, and acceptance/mindfulness based methods.