LEARNING OBJECTIVES: Use and learn self-monitoring, QST’s; identify stages of change
Materials: Participant Manuals, Flipchart paper, Markers, Computer, LCD Projector, USB, pens, notepads,
Question/Comment Box, Tracker Sheet, QuitKits, Co Monitors
Things to print: Support Persons Letter, Attendance List, NRT Sheets from TFF website
Section/Time Learning Activities Resources
Introduction
10 minutes
Pharmacist
30 -40 minutes
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Review content from last week.
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Has anyone cut down the amount they smoked, made any other changes?
 Has anyone used:
 Tracker sheet?
 Butt jar?
 Money jar?
 Switched brands
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Community pharmacist to provide NRT information for participants
 Question period
Participant Manual
Page 21
NRT handouts
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Section/Time
Break
Decisional
Balance
QST #4
15 minutes
Behaviour
Modification
QST #5
Four D’s
QST #6
5 minutes
Quitting Buddy
QST #7
5 minutes
Learning Activities Resources
5 minute break – use break as an opportunity not to smoke can look at books, use computer in library etc., socialize without a cigarette
 Prepare 4 flipchart papers with the headings: The Good Things about tobacco Use, The not so good things about tobacco use, The not so good things about quitting, The good things about quitting . Break participants into
4 groups. Each group will have one of the flipchart papers with one heading.
Participants in each group will brainstorm ideas and record on flipchart paper. Once completed participants come back as a large group. Have one person or the group present their ideas to the group. Ask group if they would add anything to the topic being discussed.
Participant Manual
Page 21
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Participants can use Manual to record and keep track for themselves, can give them a few minutes to fill in and take home for homework
Make one change from your routine:
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Don’t use tobacco in a place where you usually use it, (eg. Car, home, office)
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Separate smoking materials – lighter, cigarettes
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Separate activity – don’t drink coffee with it, use it in a less comfy place
Is a technique to help curb the urge for tobacco;
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Delay - the urge only lasts about 3 minutes
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Deep Breathe – Take a deep breath, fill lungs with oxygen
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Drink – Lots of water
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Do – something else
Quitting buddy can be the same person as your support person, some people have quitting buddies in this group, or can use on-line phone support, albertaquits buddies.
Participant Manual
Page 22
Participant Manual
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Participant Manual
Page 24
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Session 2 – Tobacco Cessation Techniques
Section/Time
Rewarding
Myself
QST #8
Learning Activities
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In what situation do you reward yourself with a cigarette
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In the same situation how can reward yourself with something else
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Use cigarette tracking sheet – what were rewards
Triggers
QST #9
Explain triggers
Tracking, 4s & 5s = high triggers
Have participants write top 2 triggers on paper, put all in hat
Have each participant chose one trigger out of hat and come up with a strategy to deal with that trigger
Deep Relaxation Triangles are building blocks of many structures. They are the strongest shape - a triangular only collapses due to material fatigue not because of the shape. Place
Internet Support
QST #11 fingers together in a triangle. Relax your eyelids, focus down on your hands, and close your eyes if you wish. Make sure to breathe through your stomach. Lightly press thumb, then forefinger, middle finger, index finger, pinkie finger. Press strongly and hold, then relax your fingers while still in the triangle shape. Open eyes slowly, shake out fingers.
Internet Support - demonstrate albertaquits.ca
 Buddies on line
 http://www.albertaquits.ca/
Self Evaluation Homework! My thoughts after Sessions page at the end of each chapter
Resources
Flipchart
Participant Manual
Page 25
Trigger Jar
Participant Manual
Page 26
Participant Manual
Page 27
Participant Manual
Page 28
Use internet to show website briefly
Participant Manual
Page 29 & 30
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