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These skills can be healthy or unhealthy. Healthy skills include using strategies like meditation, exercise, andpositive self-talkto deal with daily life. Unhealthy skills involve turning to drugs, alcohol, and negative self-talk to navigate disappointments and frustrations. Why Coping Skills Matter Y...
Urges and cravings Certain routines can trigger smoking urges. Try to avoid or plan for them in these early quitting stages. Etta Short, director of clinical development and support at corporate tobacco cessation program Optum, said that having strategies on hand, including motivating statements and...
Also, the inclusion of strategies for teaching these skills in an intervention contributes to the reduction of consumption, the number of relapses, and the increase in the abstinence time of substances such as alcohol, cocaine, crack cocaine, marijuana, and heroin. It is concluded that the ...
These psychological strategies have also been described as active processes that shape an individual’s stress response in ways that foster adaptation and resilience [62]. A cognitive focus on positive aspects may culminate in the transformation of adversity into a source of positive change and ...