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cover cover next page > title: The Complete Idiot's Guide to Breaking Bad Habits author: LeVert, Suzanne.; McClain, Gary publisher: Penguin isbn10 | asin: 0028621107 print isbn13: 9780028621104 ebook isbn13: 9780585089331 language: English subject Compulsive behavior, Vices, Substance abuse. publication date: 1998 lcc: RC533.L485 1998eb ddc: 616.85/84 subject: Compulsive behavior, Vices, Substance abuse. cover next page > If you like this book, buy it! file:///D:/...20and%20change/Habit%20busting/The%20Complete%20Idiot's%20Guide%20to%20Breaking%20Bad%20Habits/files/cover.html[21/03/2011 02:47:11] page_i < previous page page_i next page > Page i Breaking Bad Habits by Suzanne LeVert and Gary McClain, Ph.D. A Division of Macmillan Reference USA A Simon & Schuster Macmillan Company 1633 Broadway, New York, NY 10019 < previous page page_i next page > If you like this book, buy it! file:///D:/...0and%20change/Habit%20busting/The%20Complete%20Idiot's%20Guide%20to%20Breaking%20Bad%20Habits/files/page_i.html[21/03/2011 02:47:12] page_i-0 < previous page page_i-0 next page > DEAR READER < previous page page_i-0 next page > If you like this book, buy it! file:///D:/...and%20change/Habit%20busting/The%20Complete%20Idiot's%20Guide%20to%20Breaking%20Bad%20Habits/files/page_i-0.html[21/03/2011 02:47:13] page_i-1 < previous page page_i-1 next page > THE COMPLETE IDIOT'S REFERENCE CARD file:///D:/...and%20change/Habit%20busting/The%20Complete%20Idiot's%20Guide%20to%20Breaking%20Bad%20Habits/files/page_i-1.html[21/03/2011 02:47:14] page_i-1 < previous page page_i-1 next page > If you like this book, buy it! file:///D:/...and%20change/Habit%20busting/The%20Complete%20Idiot's%20Guide%20to%20Breaking%20Bad%20Habits/files/page_i-1.html[21/03/2011 02:47:14] page_i-2 < previous page page_i-2 next page > < previous page page_i-2 next page > If you like this book, buy it! file:///D:/.../Habit%20busting%20and%20change/Habit%20busting/The%20Complete%20Idiot's%20Guide%20to%20Breaking%20Bad%20Habits/files/page_i-2.html[21/03/2011 02:47:14] page_ii < previous page page_ii next page > Page ii For Bob Copyright©1998 Amaranth and Suzanne LeVert All rights reserved. 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The authors and publisher expressly disclaim any responsibility for any liability, loss, injury, or risk, personal or otherwise, which is incurred as a consequence, directly or indirectly, of the use and application of any of the contents of this book. < previous page page_ii next page > If you like this book, buy it! file:///D:/...0and%20change/Habit%20busting/The%20Complete%20Idiot's%20Guide%20to%20Breaking%20Bad%20Habits/files/page_ii.html[21/03/2011 02:47:15] page_iii < previous page page_iii next page > Page iii Alpha Development Team Brand Manager Kathy Nebenhaus Executive Editor Gary M. Krebs Managing Editor Bob Shuman Senior Editor Nancy Mikhail Development Editor Jennifer Perillo Editorial Assistant Maureen Horn Production Team Development Editor/Book Producer Lee Ann Chearney/Amaranth Production Editor Chris Van Camp Copy Editor Michael Cunningham Cover Designer Mike Freeland Cartoonist Judd Winick Designer Glenn Larsen Indexer Chris Barrick Proofreading/Layout Angela Perry, Daniela Raderstorf < previous page page_iii next page > If you like this book, buy it! file:///D:/...and%20change/Habit%20busting/The%20Complete%20Idiot's%20Guide%20to%20Breaking%20Bad%20Habits/files/page_iii.html[21/03/2011 02:47:16] page_v < previous page page_v next page > Page v CONTENTS AT A GLANCE Part 1: Over and Over Again 1 1 What Is a Bad Habit? Understanding habitsboth good ones and bad ones; learning to recognize when a habit's gone bad and starts to interfere with your life. 3 2 Why You Do the Things You Do Where your bad habits begin, how they work, and why you hold onto them! 17 3 But I Like It Like That What categories do your bad habits fall into: cravings, tendencies, or compulsions? 27 Part 2: Just Say No! 37 4 Okay, So How Do You Stop? Learning how habits affect your mind and your body reveals clues to becoming a habit-free you. 39 5 Step 1: Identify the Behavior How to use your Daily Habit Log to track your bad habit and discover your bad habit triggers. 49 6 Step 2: Evaluate Risks and Benefits Exploring what your bad habit accomplishes in your life, for the short-and the long- termand whether it's worth it. 59 7 Step 3: Prepare for Change What to do to get ready to break your bad habit. 69 8 Step 4: Just Do It! Strategies for getting through it and learning to love the new habit-free you. 79 9 Get Back on That Horse Understanding relapse as part of the processand over-coming it! 89 Part 3: Resist Those Cravings 95 10 Identify Your Cravings Are your cravings just in your head? Or are they a chemical thing? Or both? 97 11 Easing Up on Alcohol Learning to control your drinking before it starts to control you. 105 < previous page page_v next page > If you like this book, buy it! file:///D:/...0and%20change/Habit%20busting/The%20Complete%20Idiot's%20Guide%20to%20Breaking%20Bad%20Habits/files/page_v.html[21/03/2011 02:47:16] page_vi < previous page page_vi next page > Page vi 12 Put That Thing Out! Why it's so hard to quit smoking, and techniques to help you quit successfully this time. 115 13 Calming the Caffeine Jitters How to boost productivity without going on caffeine overdrive. 125 14 Food, Not So Glorious Food Learning to choose foods that make you feel and look your best. 135 Part 4: Stop Driving Me (and Everyone Else) Crazy! 149 15 Tame Those Tendencies Recognizing those things you do that hurt your relationships. 151 16 Be Straightforward When fibbing, forgetting, or losing your cool put you in compromising positions. 163 17 Starting Right Now How being late and procrastinating can put your whole life on hold, and how to start moving again. 175 18 Establishing Emotional Integrity What to do when bad relationship habits keep youand your relationshipsfrom positive growth and change. 189 Part 5: Calming Those Compulsions 201 19 Identify Your Compulsions When you just, just, just can't help it, and learning to channel your energy in a new direction. 203 20 Your Very Personal, Personal Space Those passive-aggressive head to toe quirksfrom knuckle-cracking to compulsive hand-washingthat drive people around you nuts! 215 21 Home Is Where the Habit Is Too neat or too messy? How your environment is your own self-portrait. 223 22 Finally, Fiscal Fidelity From balancing your checkbook to doing your taxes to the thrill of the gamblehow to put your financial house in order. 233 23 Loving an Electronic High How to keep phones, faxes, TV, and the Internet from taking over your life. 245 < previous page page_vi next page > If you like this book, buy it! file:///D:/...and%20change/Habit%20busting/The%20Complete%20Idiot's%20Guide%20to%20Breaking%20Bad%20Habits/files/page_vi.html[21/03/2011 02:47:17]
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