Please see below for the list of handouts for each session. To download a handout, click on the title of the document you would like to see. 

Session 1: Reasons for Smoking and Drinking and Benefits of Quitting Smoking 

1. Overview of Sessions 
2. Goals around Smoking and Alcohol 
3. Nicotine Dependence 
4. Smoking and the Hazards to your Health
5. Benefits of Quitting 
6. Drinking and the Hazards to your Health
7. Benefits of Quitting Drinking 
8. Home Practice: Reasons I Want to Quit Smoking and Change Drinking 

Session 2: Identifying & Coping with High-Risk Situations 

1. Identifying Triggers 
2. Coping with Urges: ACE Strategies 
3. Coping Strategies 
4. Coping With High-Risk Situations 

Session 3: Preparing for Life Without Cigarettes 

1. Alcohol Change Goals 
2. Thoughts That Can Undermine Attempts
3. Home Practice: Changing Thoughts 

Session 4: Stress Management and Preparing for Quit Day

1. Managing Stress 
2. Keys to Success 
3. Preparing to Quit 
4. Nicotine Patch Treatment 
5. Nicotine Patch Placement Map 
6. Quit Day Preparation Checklist  

Session 5: Preparing for Success by Anticipating Challenges 

1. Coping with Withdrawal 
2. Home Practice: Cigarette/Drink Refusal 

Session 6: Continue to Identify High-Risk Situations and Coping Strategies 

1. Managing Stress 
2. Home Practice: Changing Thoughts 

Session 7: Managing Weight Gain and looking to Future Threats to Abstinence 

1. Weight Management 
2. Coping with High-Risk Situations 
3. Home Practice: Personal Threats to Meeting Goals

Session 8: Preparing for Treatment End and a Smoke-Free Future 

1. What to Do If I Lapse 
2. Tapering off Patches - 21mg 
3. Tapering off Patches - 14mg
4. Referrals