Get Over Nicotine Safely with Courage and Power

Table of Contents

Page ....... Topic............

3 -- Welcome
4 -- Introduction
5 -- Critical Realities
6 -- Thirdhand Smoke
7 -- Effects on Environment
8 -- Take Heart
9 -- The Experience Described
10-- Experience Illustration
11-- Let's Get Started
12-- Taking Control's Success Plan

13-16-- Stage 1, Day 1
17-18-- Day 2
19-21-- Day 3
22 -- Stage 2 Introduction
23-25-- Day 4
26-27-- Day 5
28-30-- Stage 3, Day 6
31-32-- Day 7
33 -- Day 8
34 -- Day 9

35 -- Day 10
36-37-- Day 11
38 -- Day 12
39-40-- Day 13
41-43-- Day 14 Graduation!

Welcome!
We have prepared this book to help adults across the life spectrum gain victory over addiction to tobacco products from cigarettes, e-cigarettes, chewing tobacco, vaping, and any nicotine-laden product.

And to bring about success for those individuals, to equip neighborhood groups, churches, and other non-profit organizations for conducting mentoring and support activities such as tobacco cessation workshops and phone coaching. Altogether, this is a Case-Managed Approach to Tobacco Cessation Help=CMATCH.
So, read on!

INTRODUCTION

Perhaps, you are not yet committed to quitting the behavior and "pleasure" of tobacco product use. But, the voice in your head and the loved ones and friends around you have reminded you that you put your life at risk.

So, let's review some startling facts about the "culture" you have been embracing.
Did you know . . .
-- An individual who smokes 1.5 packs/day, may be spending at least $3,300/year!
-- One who chews a can of tobacco per day, could be spending $1100/year on a sure path to oral cancer.
--Tobacco use, particularly cigarette smoking, remains the leading cause of preventable illness and death in this country.
--Around the world, tobacco kills up to half of its users, resulting in 6 million deaths a year, according to WHO. More than 5 million of those are the result of direct tobacco use while over 600,000 are non-smokers exposed to second-hand smoke.
--Most cigar and pipe users have at least some college education, but cigarette smoking is more concentrated among those with less than a college education.
-- For the smoker, the risk of developing Peripheral Artery Disease - blocked leg arteries - increases as we live longer . . . potentially leading to an amputation and reduced quality of life.

THE ENVIRONMENT YOU DEPEND ON

3 Trillion cigarette butts are carelessly thrown or flicked into the environment each year. Only about 1/3 end up in the trash, the rest trash up the streets, pass into the drainage systems and make their way to the sea where nicotine and tar are leached. The filters are made of cellulose acetate--plastic. . . eaten mistakenly as prey by marine life.

And, who knew? Electronic cigarettes are handled the same way by many smokers--tossed into the environment . . . on their way to the sea.

Not only are tobacco product users responsible to their own health, but they are responsible to the health and safety of other humans and our environment!

But, all this negative information may cause you to feel hopeless and doomed . . . Take heart, you can reclaim a state of well-being!

You can live FREEEE! again! And . . .
You have come to the right place!

Here is a quick visual of the program process.

Taking Control's Success Plan

Welcome to the Taking Control Program!

Your investment and commitment of time has brought you to the classroom.
-- Make yourself comfortable,
-- Turn off the distractions,
-- Get a pencil or pen,
-- Pour yourself a glass of water or fresh juice,
-- Plan to spend about 45 minutes each day in this session,
-- Focus on taking control . . .

First of all, you will need the printable workbook, so please open/download the file found below:

Taking Control Guide (PDF below) You need this day-by-day guide for the activities you will be instructed to do in order to aid your new goal-directed plan of action.
The Audio file will appear on each day's guidance.

TC Participant Workbook.pdf

Stage 1, Day One

This is a day dedicated to helping you make the life-saving decision to breathe freely without tobacco's toxins and drugs.
The day to contemplate on what it will mean to you, to your loved ones, when you turn your back on tobacco and walk into healthy ways of living. Today and the next two days you will methodically and systematically prepare yourself for the Big Day--the day you begin to take control.

Stage 1, Day One Continues . . .

This is a day dedicated to helping you make the life-saving decision to breathe freely without tobacco's toxins and drugs.
The day to contemplate on what it will mean to you, to your loved ones, when you turn your back on tobacco and walk into healthy ways of living. Today and the next two days you will methodically and systematically prepare yourself for the Big Day--the day you begin to take control. Today, with the help of the video on this page, you will learn how the Taking Control program works. You will explore your feelings and examine key behaviors that have bound you to tobacco and its addictive principal character, Nicotine.

Now that you have downloaded the Taking Control printable guide to your computer and viewed the Introduction, we can begin . . .

Tracking Progress
An important activity of changing your habitual behavior is marking where you are now and measuring along the way of your journey the progress you are making, so, if you have not already marked the online survey TCAT - Tobacco Cessation Assessment Tool -- and printed it out, do so today. It is back on the CMATCH website. You will be asked to create a 7-character alphanumeric code you will need at times along this journey, so mark it down.