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Cheat Sheet / Updated 09-30-2024
Want some tips for your sobriety journey? This Cheat Sheet helps you challenge beliefs and societal pressures, break free from sobriety stigmas, understand your willpower’s role, and dispel conceptions about happiness.Challenging Beliefs and Societal PressuresDon’t underestimate the societal pressures to drink, especially in professional environments or social settings where alcohol is synonymous with relaxation and enjoyment.
Get empowered to change your relationship with alcohol—without feeling deprived From leading recovery mentors Lane Kennedy and Tamar Medford, this book is full of proven ideas that will help you embrace a life without alcohol (or without so much of it). Chock full of personal stories, unfiltered honesty, and tried-and-true advice, Sobriety For Dummies offers practical strategies and useful tools for those seeking to transform the role of alcohol in their lives.
Article / Updated 08-10-2023
Unfortunately, ingesting poison into your system daily for many years takes a toll. We say that not to shame or scare you. Mercifully, we’re keeping some of the gory details limited. The reason it’s important to know about these issues is that it may help give you additional motivation for quitting.The good news is that quitting smoking confers substantial health benefits no matter when you do it.
No matter what your road to recovery looks like, Dummies is on your side Addiction and Recovery For Dummies gives you the tools you need to identify and face addiction in yourself or a loved one, while working towards a healthy and realistic approach to recovery. This book offers a compassionate, unbiased, and non-judgmental guide to evaluating and overcoming addiction.
Cheat Sheet / Updated 05-15-2023
To overcome an addiction, first you need to recognize addiction in yourself or a loved one. Then, explore addiction recovery programs and treatment methods and decide how to deal with your addictive behavior, or that of a family member or friend.How to recognize addiction in yourselfDealing with an addiction means you stop wasting time and energy on self-deception and denial.
Article / Updated 05-03-2023
Gambling involves the betting or wagering of valuables on uncertain outcomes and takes many forms — from games of chance to skill-based activities. People have many motivations for gambling, but all involve the hope of gaining more.Gambling is sometimes a rite of passage by which people discover more about themselves and how to compete with others.
Article / Updated 04-17-2023
Direct from the Age of Aquarius, with a history going back thousands of years, hallucinogens take people on far-ranging trips inside their own minds. Hallucinogens (also called psychedelics) cause your brain to generate experiences that are profound distortions of reality. We have five senses: seeing, hearing, tasting, touching, and smelling.
Cheat Sheet / Updated 02-28-2023
Internet addiction involves excessive, and at times compulsive, overuse of Internet screen devices. Typically, some types of content are potentially more addictive, including social media, pornography, video games, binge TV watching, shopping, and gambling.The Internet delivers desirable content unpredictably, and the reward center of the brain loves the unpredictable experience of maybe.
Cheat Sheet / Updated 10-05-2021
Quitting smoking or vaping may be one of the hardest things you’ll ever do, but the rewards will last you a lifetime. In order to succeed at quitting, you need to learn how to deal with your cravings (because you know they’ll hit). You also need the motivation to keep going when the going gets tough.One way to stick with your effort to quit smoking or vaping is to find something healthy to do instead.
A guidebook to beating internet addiction and screen overuse and for living a fuller life There’s no escaping it―we live in a digital world. We work, play, socialize, and learn online, and the Internet provides many amazing opportunities. Unfortunately, because of our basic biology, we’re all susceptible to overuse and addiction to screens.
