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ACT is scientifically based psychotherapy that has been shown to be useful for a wide range of problems. Research has supported ACT for treating people with anxiety, depression, hallucinations, delusions, and chronic stress. ACT has been found to be effective for people struggling with different health problems like diabetes, chronic pain, obesity, and cancer. And, most importantly, ACT has been found has been to be successful in helping people with a range of addictions from heroin, cocaine, cannabis, alcohol, and smoking.\nThe research on which ACT is based suggests that many of the common sense ways in which we try to overcome problems in our lives can be unhelpful. As a result, ACT challenges some of the most conventional ways of thinking about how we approach these problems. What ACT asks you to do is fundamentally change the way in which you deal with your personal experience: your thoughts, feelings, emotions and so on.\nWe are not going to try to convince you to quit smoking – that decision is yours and yours alone. But, if you’ve decided for yourself that it’s time to let go of cigarettes and you find that smoking is blocking you from living the life you want to live, then we offer this 6-week course to help you. Sometimes we’ll ask you to do some pretty strange stuff: odd exercises, activities, meditations, assignments and other things. It’s our hope that you find things here that move you toward the life you want to live.\nMany people who have considered quitting smoking have found that without a specific quit date they never get around to making the attempt to quit. In this course, we set the quit date far enough in advance to give you the opportunity  to develop and practice a range of skills before you quit that you can then seamlessly put into practice when you do stop smoking. We encourage everybody to set their quit date between weeks three and four of the course. This also makes the group most effective, as it enables each of you to share common experiences and concerns as well as support for each other. Before your quit date it is okay to smoke normally; but because your body and mind are used to regular doses of nicotine, it is really important that after this quit date you commit to having not even a single puff on  a cigarette.\nIntroduction:\nSay your name, why you were called your name, and what you hope to get from the course.\nFeeling Good Exercise:\nWe are going to start with an exercise that involves looking at your beliefs about how to deal with difficulties in your life. There is a sheet in your folders called the ‘feeling good exercise.’ It consists of seven pairs of statements. Select one statement with a tick from each pair – either A or B – that most reflects your current belief.\nFrom a young age we are taught that we should be able to control our thoughts and feelings: “cheer up,” “chill out,” “there’s nothing to be afraid of” and so on. This belief can become really ingrained in us. The more you selected option A on the sheet, the greater the likelihood that trying to control how you think and feel is creating suffering in your life.\nA series of experiments by a Harvard Psychologist, Daniel Wegner, showed why this is the case. He studied individuals’ ability to get rid of an unwanted thought. In the early studies he asked them first to think of a ‘white bear’ and then asked them to get rid of this thought from their minds. He found that not only could they not do this; thoughts of white bears eventually began to appear more than ever – a rebound effect. A lot of research has since shown that suppressing thoughts and emotions doesn’t work over the long term. In other words, not only does thought suppression not work, it actually increases the frequency of the very thoughts we are trying to get rid of. Therefore, you can guess what will happen if you try to force a thought like “a smoke would be n","cbCaivaxRJ0WDC9T","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaivaxRJ0WDC9T","docx",177186,59,"English","# Session 1\n## Description of ACT\n## Introduction\n## Feeling Good Exercise\n## Creative Hopelessness\n## Discussion and group sharing","[{\"question\":\"What is ACT and why is it used for smoking cessation?\",\"answer\":\"ACT is Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, a scientifically based psychotherapy. 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