Smoking Recovery Program- Session 1 Getting The Facts

Smoking Recovery Program

GETTING THE FACTS
SESSION 1

Rationale
Although most smokers have received information and recognize the hazards of cigarette smoking, they often block out a lot of the specific problems associated with smoking. It is natural human behaviior to filter troubling thoughts out of awareness. In order for an individual to recover from cigarette addiction he/she must break through areas of denial to make a well informed decision to stop smoking.

Objectives
1. To receive and retain facts about the physiological hazards of cigarette smoking.
2. To assess the individual's smoking behaviro in terms of habitual and psychological dependency.

Activities
1. View video cassette presentation.
2. List physiological hazards of smoking and identify facts which they filter from memory.
3. Write 5 personal reasons to stop smoking
4. Discuss in small groups your smoking history and primary fears associated with continuing to smoke and stopping smoking

Group Process Topics
1. Describe how long, how much and why you smoke
2. What is most frightening about continuing to smoke?
3. What is most frightening for you when thinking about stopping smoking.

Homework Assignment
1. Make a conscious effort to be aware of each cigarette you smoke.

INDIVIDUALIZED

Assessment
Individualized Assessment and Intervention based on quantifiable assessment instruments.

Treatment
Incorporates continuum of cessation strategies adapted for "Tapering" for heavy, ambivalent smokers and "Cold Turkey" for light, motivated smokers.

Identifies:

Cost Sources	Annual Cost per Smoker
Smoking Workers Costly: Study Figure 1 Additional Annual Cost of Employing Smokers and Allowing Smoking at the Work Place
Absenteeism	220 a
Medical Care	230 b
Morbidity and Early Mortality (discounted lost earnings)	765 c
Insurance (excluding health)	90 c
On-the-Job Time Lost	1820 a
Property Damage and Depreciation	500 d
Maintenance	500 d
Involuntary Smoking	486 e
Total Cost per smoker per year	$4611

All costs are in January 1981 dollars.

Assumes that total personnel cost to employer, including fringes and payroll taxes, equals $20,000 per employee.
Based on Luce and Schweitzer (1978) adjusted for 1981 dollars.
Based on Kristein (1980) adjusted for 1981 dollars.
Based on interviews by the author.
Based on White and Froeb (1980), Wynder and Stellman (1977), and Luce and Schweitzer

Survey based on research by William Weis, associate business professor at Seattle, Washington University

Click on these links to print "What Do I Get Out of Smoking" and "Cigarette Wrap Sheet"

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