Quitting Smoking & Vaping For Dummies

Charles H. Elliott, PhD and Laura L. Smith, PhD are clinical psychologists with years of experience treating people with emotional problems, including addictions. They are authors of a variety of For Dummies books including Overcoming Anxiety For Dummies and Borderline Personality Disorder For Dummies.

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• Introduction 1Part 1: Lifting the Fog on Smoking and Vaping 5Chapter 1: A Matter of Life 7Chapter 2: Talking about Tobacco 17Chapter 3: Taking Tobacco’s Health Costs into Account 35Chapter 4: Looking at the Impact of Smoking on Families and Communities 51Part 2: Clearing the Air about Vaping and E-Cigarettes 57Chapter 5: Grasping the Basics of Vaping 59Chapter 6: Recognizing the Risks of Vaping 73Chapter 7: What Parents Need to Know about Vaping 87Part 3: Surveying Quitting Strategies 103Chapter 8: Overcoming Obstacles to Quitting 105Chapter 9: Finding Help at the Pharmacy 119Chapter 10: Changing Thoughts and Actions 135Chapter 11: Tapping Technical Supports 161Chapter 12: Reducing Harm from Cigarette Smoking 171Chapter 13: Searching for Help in All the Wrong Places 183Part 4: Personalizing Your Quit Plan 197Chapter 14: Assessing Your Readiness and Motivation to Quit 199Chapter 15: Preparing Your Plan 211Chapter 16: Celebrating Your Quit Day 225Chapter 17: Getting through the Risky First Month 233Chapter 18: Staying the Course for the Next Five Months and Beyond 247Chapter 19: Recovering from Lapses and Relapses 261Part 5: Living after Smoking 273Chapter 20: Dealing with Weight Gain 275Chapter 21: Strengthening Resilience 289Chapter 22: Developing Self-Compassion 303Part 6: The Part of Tens 315Chapter 23: Ten Ways to Help Someone You Care about Quit 317Chapter 24: Ten (Or So) Reliable Resources for More Information 323Chapter 25: Ten Messages for Teens and Young Adults Who Vape 327Index 333