You can work with a coach one-on-one or in a group setting. Aetna offers several coaching programs to help you meet health goals like quitting smoking. If you’re not an Aetna member, reach out to your insurance provider to find out what kinds of programs they offer. If you’re an Aetna member, you can call the number on the back of your insurance card to learn more. Many Aetna members, for example, have access to the following programs. Smokers said that they needed to see and hear what it would be like to live with the negative consequences of their habit.Ĭheck if your insurance plan offers smoking cessation programs or covers nicotine replacement therapy. In its first year, the campaign motivated 1.6 million Americans to try quitting. Honesty. An anti-smoking campaign launched several years ago by the Centers for Disease Control communicated the health effects of smoking through former smokers."I feel comfortable that if I ever slip up, I can talk to her about it without shame, without fear of judgment. No judgment. John says he formed a stronger bond with Buko than with previous doctors who wagged their fingers in his face.I told myself, If they could do it, I could too." “Those were also the people I turned to when I was having a tough time. "I found former smokers to be inspirational when I quit,” she remembers. Relatability. Buko doesn’t always reveal to her clients that she's a former smoker, but says doing so sometimes provides aspiring nonsmokers with a needed role model.Who knows better what you're going through and how hard it is than an ex-smoker? Anecdotal evidence suggests that having a smoking “sponsor” with whom to share your experience, progress and setbacks is more effective than getting support from someone who’s never smoked. "Is it tension, burning, heat, mouth-watering, tickle in my throat?" Investigate what the craving feels like in your body.
Allow/Accept the craving so you can work with it. For former smokers. Brewer uses the acronym RAIN to coach patients through the quit:."They say, 'How did I not notice this? I've been smoking for 30 years and I’m really not that excited about smoking.' That's a really critical piece." Pay attention to the taste of the cigarette." After that exercise, he says many patients begin to question the habit. For active smokers. “Pay attention to what it actually feels like to smoke,” he advises.He uses two mindfulness approaches in his addiction practice: "We think of mindfulness as opening up the space to respond rather than habitually react,” says Judson Brewer, MD, a psychiatrist, addiction expert and director of research at the Center for Mindfulness at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. Studies suggest that practicing mindfulness reduces smoking at a greater rate than the typical smoking cessation program.
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