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Welcome To Our Web Site!
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Stop
Smoking and Chewing Tobacco for LIFE CHANGES, Infinity Publishing.com, ISBN 0-7414-0481-8, December, 2000
Retail $ 19.95 A Powerful, Skills-Based
Program and Creative Self-Instructional Approach to Cessation Behavior
for Life, David L. Johnson, Ph.D. & Carole A. Johnson, I.D. LIFE
CHANGES, a self-instructional workbook and cassette
tape program will instruct and provide cognitive-behavioral strategies and
skills you can learn and need to apply to shifting emotions, mental states, and situational stressors that generate tobacco
use and relapse behavior. Over 120 cessation techniques from aversion, relaxation, hypnosis, humor, creativity, and fun
writing activities are integrated into the instructional model. The LIFE
CHANGES audio cassette reinforces the self-instructional workbook techniques and is sold separately by the
authors. Order by E: djohnson1464@sbcglobal.net The workbook can
be ordered from the publisher at http://www.bbotw.com Workbook available
at http://www.Amazon.com (find by title or ISBN) and other popular
chain stores. Workbooks and
tapes may be purchased from the authors at djohnson1464@sbcglobal.net All online or face-to-fave consulting, planning, training, and
support services by Dr. Johnson and trained Healthy Life Changes volunteers offered at no cost to program participants.
Contact us by
email with your questions and interests in the program. If you have no access to a computer, you may call Dr. Johnson at (417)
890-9386. If not picked up, leave a message and a return phone number. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Book
of the Month Selection Stupid Reasons People Die An Ingenious Plot For Defusing
Deadly Diseases by John Corso, MD Hardcover/© 2007 Dr. John Corso is a
practicing, board-certified, internal medicine physician, lecturer, and author
of Stupid Reasons People Die. The author identifies heart attacks, strokes, lung/breast/colon/prostate cancer, and diabetes as medical conditions
that kill at preventably higher rates. He argues logically and factually
that there are actions we must take to prevent and possibly lengthen our lives and enhance the quality of life. Dr. Corso argues that "state-of-the art" technology
can enable individual patients and their doctors
to make early proactive decisions and life-saving treatment plans. Focused prevention and proactive
treatment plans be provided by a medical provider like the author. Dr. Corso meets with each patient, interacts by
email or phone, and
provides up-to-date medical news online (c.f. http://www.drjohncorso.com). New technology,
hopefully available in each patient’s residential area, might include Ultra Fast CAT scans of heart and brain arteries; EBCT scans of arterial plaque; PET lung scans for current or
former smokers, or patients with family smoking history) usually paid by the patient. Dr. Corso believes earlier detection of likely disease
processes (e.g., Atherosclerotic Arterial Disease, tumors, blood clots, plaque build-up,
aortic ruptures) can lead to more effective interventions and less loss of lives for "stupid reasons." The author challenges
patients and physicians to go beyond passive, traditional dependencies, and out-dated reliance on failed “standards of care”
in order to save lives and make technological screenings available to visionary patients and clinicians. He cuts down any delusional view that an evolutionary “Mother Nature” can succor and take care of us justly from birth to death. Natural
causes occur because "Mother Nature" really
does not love us or play moral favorites with our lives. We are responsible for actions taken and
not taken with regard to known and suspected risks involved in managing our health, choices, and survival. Specialized screening
tools can be more sensitive in finding problems in the body and more specific in knowing what to do about them. The author provides
in Appendix I a helpful U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) set of guidelines and evidence for assessing
the magnitude of net benefits, that is, benefits minus harms for selected
screening tests. Descriptions of ten screening tools and protocols are summarized in the Appendix. I strongly recommend
Stupid Reasons People Die to those patients and soon-to-be patients who have the “grit,” knowledge, access to screening tools,
and financial resources to pursue a customized, potentially life-saving treatment plan. David L. Johnson, Ph. D, Book Reviewer +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 2007 Major League Baseball Season has begun: Additional sports cards will be posted in this space to help support the Healthy Life Changes network of free resources
and program services.
+++++++++++++++NATIONAL NEWS+++++++++++++++
We would appreciate your help in letting baseball fans who
enjoy baseball and vintage card collecting that Healthy Life Changes is selling at discounted prices quality vintage
baseball cards to raise funds to continue to provide free online services, resources, and low-cost quit-tobacco
materials. We will be introducing more vintage cards and incentives in the months ahead! Let us read email from you about card wants, tobacco news, offers and ideas
for selling out our baseball card inventory.
Thank you for helping -- the Healthy Life Changes Staff
_____________Post-Election Outcomes! ____________
The voters have cast their ballots. Many voted with hearts
and values against politicians and tobacco interests' deceptive advertising, hypocrisy, and unhealthy products
and actions. Voters in record numbers and throughout the nation thwarted Big
Tobacco's efforts to retain and recruit citizens from using their addictive, deadly tobacco products.
Voters in Arizona, Florida, Nevada, Ohio and South Dakota passed life-saving ballot measures that will help reduce the financial exploitation of tobacco users' health and well being. Arizona and Ohio and passed 100% smoke-free laws requiring all workplaces, including restaurants and bars, to be smoke-free. Nevada required more workplaces to go smoke-free and gave local governments authority to pass tougher smoke-free laws in their communities. South Dakota and Arizona voted to increase their state's tobacco tax. Higher per pack state taxes have demonstrated some ability to reduce the incidence of teen smoking, and the higher cost of cigarettes and added health risks can influence smokers to quit. Florida passed an initiative requiring the state legislature to adequately fund tobacco prevention and cessation programs.
Unfortunately, voters in California and Missouri defeated measures to increase cigarette taxes which would have funded tobacco
prevention and other health programs. Missouri has one of the highest percentage of tobacco users in the country
as well as one an extremely low tax rate of only .17 cents per pack of cigarettes. Tobacco interests
reportedly spent more than $65 million in California alone on television ads which confused, mislead, and distorted
the proactive influences of these state initiatives.
With your continued participation, we will keep fighting the tobacco interests by supporting and increasing the number
of smoke-free states, increasing tobacco taxes, and state efforts to provide prevention, intervention, and health services
for all tobacco users and their families. _____
Government Program Encourages Smokers and Tobacco-Users To
Be A "Quiter"!
The "Quit Now" Challenge invites you to share why you want to quit tobacco, but still
may be struggling to quit the habit. The program was announced by The National Cancer Institute
(NCI) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
From now through October 27, 2006, 1-800-QUIT-NOW will accept tobacco-use stories focusing on why tobacco
users
want to "Quit Now!." Interested persons may visit 1800quitnow.org for instructions on how to submit video
entries. Successful quitters whose stories have been selected will be announced on February 1, 2007.
The "Quit Now" Challenge, part of the "Be A Quitter" campaign, supports NCI and CDC's ongoing efforts through the National Network of Tobacco Cessation Quitlines initiative. Participants selected among men and women between the ages of 18 and 29 will be available for local radio, television, and newspaper interviews. Participants will be encouraged to help others quit by posting daily encouraging comments and successful QUIT-NOW experiences on the 1-800-QUIT-NOW web site 1800quitnow.org. Callers to 1-800-QUIT-NOW in state-based quitline services will receive practical, effective help
to quit smoking, information, and referrals to other resources.
Participants who quit smoking by the challenge's end will be selected to share their successes. The government hopes these focused, realistic stories will raise awareness and increase quit rates in the United States. For more information about tobacco cessation, go to http://smokefree.gov or call 1-800-QUIT-NOW. For information about tobacco, go to the National Cancer Institute's "Tobacco and Cancer" home page at http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/tobacco or the Center for Disease Control and Prevention's Tobacco Information and Prevention home page at http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/. Information about cancer is available at the National Cancer Institute online at http://www.cancer.gov or call the NCI Cancer Information Service at 1-800-422--6237 ------ ----------------------
To read reviews or order Stop Smoking and Chewing Tobacco for
LIFE CHANGES from Infiinity Publishing.com click on the link below:
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Dr. Johnson is teaching/mentoring distance-learning college
and high school courses in Psychology, Social Psychology, and Sociology for CALCampus.com (an accredited college
headquartered in New Hampshire). See the web site at http://www.calcampus.com
Check out the courses and rolling enrollment programs
and updates. Email Margaret G. Morabito, Director, CALCampus.com at Director@calcampus.com
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