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Compare smoking with being in a dysfunctional relationship when trying to motivate smokers to quit, Carol Southard, R.N., said at a conference on patient education sponsored by the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine.
"In their heads, they know what they're doing is not smart. They will say, 'But I need to smoke. I have to smoke in response to stress.' I tell people the hardest part about getting off cigarettes is the behavioral changes required to do it," said Ms. Southard, a smoking cessation specialist with the Weliness Institute at Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago.
She considers intensive, behaviorally based smoking cessation programs to be the most successful. In the 8-week course that she runs at the hospital, participants meet once a week for an hour. They are given assignments to increase awareness of their smoking habit, assess their motivation to quit, learn cessation ...
Source: HighBeam Research, The dysfunctional relationship. (Smoking Cessation).