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How Do I Quit Drinking or Drugging?

How Do I Deal With Withdrawal?


How Do I Resist Cravings?
Isn’t Addiction Genetic?
Can I Really Moderate?
Be Patient
Chapter 4: Why Do I Keep Doing This? Why Do I Prefer It?
Some Primary Reasons Behind a Preference for Intoxication
The Secondary Fortifying Reasons Behind a Strong Preference for
Intoxication
The Simplest Explanation Is the Most Accurate Explanation
Chapter 5: Causes vs. Reasons
The “Causes of Addiction”
Probabilities
Mind Matters
Focus on Reasons, Not Causes
Chapter 6: Learned Connections
What Are Learned Connections?
How Beliefs Form and Why They Are Hard to Challenge
The Hopi
Some Evidence to Consider
But What About My Specific Problem?
What You Really Need to Know
We Aren’t Diminishing or Dismissing Your Problems
The Three Building Blocks of Freedom
Chapter 7: The Positive Drive Principle
All Choices Are Made in Pursuit of Happiness
Costly Behaviors Are a Pursuit of Happiness Too
Happier Options
Outcomes Don’t Reverse Motives
There’s One Direction of Motivation: Toward Happiness
Happiness Is Subjective and a Mixed Bag
Why Is Recognizing the Pursuit of Happiness So Important?
Fear Alone Isn’t Enough
What to Remember
Chapter 8: The Addict/Alcoholic Self-Image
Everything Changes Once You See Yourself as Addicted
Reality, Interpretations, and Feelings
Self-Image Matters
Chapter 9: Learning the Addict Self-Image
The Playground Effect
Deviance, Shame, Shoulds, and Justification
Incentivized Helplessness
Learning Addiction From Culture
The Myth of Addictive Drugs
Overcomplicating the Problem
Learning Helplessness Through False Failures
Those Tempting “Underlying Causes”
You Can Break Out of the Addict Role
Chapter 10: Constructive Self-Images
You Can Change Your Self-Image With Knowledge
Changing Learned Connections
You Have a Choice
Chapter 11: Mental Autonomy and Free Will
Do You Agree?
Shedding the Addict/Alcoholic Self-Image
Chapter 12: Leaving the Cage of Recovery
Living Like a Caged Lion
Living Free
Chapter 13: Success
Success Is Knowing That You Are Free and Happily Choosing What
You See As Best For You
What If You Approached the Decision Without Shame?
It’s Your Choice to Make, and Here’s Why It Matters
You Are Free to Rethink the Benefits of Continued Substance Use
You Are Free to Rethink the Benefits of Reducing or Quitting
Substance Use
You Are Free to Shift Your Focus From Costs to Benefits
Moving Forward
Chapter 14: Reclaiming Your Freedom and Happiness
You Are What You Think
Identical Thoughts = Identical Feelings and Behaviors
Choose a New Self-Image
Direct Preference Change
Chapter 15: Motivators vs. Deterrents
You Don’t “Have to” Quit
Coercion and Ultimatums
Shame and Shoulds
Holding Onto Powerlessness
Starting Off on the Right Foot
Categorical Thinking: Good and Bad Substances
Categorical Thinking: Priorities
Everything Has a Price
Chapter 16: Forging a Lasting Preference Change
What Is a Preference?
Multiple Options
The Problem With Replacement
Don’t Make Your Change Unnecessarily Conditional
Unhappiness Isn’t a Cause of Heavy Substance Use
The Preference Rut
Chapter 17: Questioning Drug Effects
You Can’t Need What Doesn’t Help You
Placebo Effect and Active Placebos
The Perceived Effects “Caused” by Identical Substances
The Glaring Contradictions
Chapter 18: The Illusion of Emotional Relief
Drugs and Alcohol Can’t Think for You
Constructing the Illusion
The Power of Distraction
Bandaging—A Vicious Cycle
Reprieves
What Applies to Stress Applies to Other Emotions Too
Chapter 19: Lowered Inhibitions and the License to Misbehave
Can the Same Substance Create Opposite Effects?
The Perceived Effects “Caused” by Identical Substances
The Origin of the License to Misbehave
The History of the License to Misbehave
The Illusory Benefits of Lowered Inhibitions

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