Life After Cigarettes
Why Women Smoke and How to Quit, Look Great, and Manage Your Weight
by Cynthia S. Pomerleau PhD
You can live – and live well – without cigarettes
You want to do it. You know you should do it. But especially if you’re a woman, you also know how hard quitting cigarettes can be. If you’ve tried to quit before and experienced weight gain, sadness, or other distressing symptoms, you may have decided to quit quitting.
Or maybe you’re already a former smoker, but you’re not quite satisfied with the way you look and feel. You wish you could somehow go back and get it right.
After two decades of research with women smokers and former smokers, Dr. Cynthia S. Pomerleau knows about the unique, multilayered nature of women’s relationship to cigarettes. Here, with real world understanding and comprehensive knowledge of current scientific findings, she offers the insights, tools and hope you’ll need to make that crucial transition.
Pomerleau wants every woman who smokes to become – and remain – a nonsmoker who feels good and looks great, but she also knows that one-size-fits-all prescriptions, scare tactics and “Just stop!” lectures don’t work for most women. Instead, she empowers you to
- manage your weight and mood without cigarettes
- replace the comfort of cigarettes with true self-care
- create your own personal quitting style
- look better and feel more confident than ever before
You’ll also find stories of other women who’ve been there, tips for handling partner and family relationships as you change, and information on how medications can help you reach your goal. Pomerleau proves that there is life after cigarettes – and that you can live it.
REVIEWS AND TESTIMONIALS
"Research has shown that women find it harder to quit smoking than men do. This book explains why that is. Among other reasons, women are much more likely to fear the weight gain and depression that are often associated with quitting. Pomerleau explains these and other factors involved in kicking the tobacco habit, and how to overcome them successfully. Her advice on weight control summarizes what all the good weight loss books say: control portions, eat healthy foods, and exercise regularly. As a former smoker herself, she employs a tone that is sympathetic and at the same time empowering. Verdict: Smoking cessation has been the subject of many books, but few if any have addressed women’s special concerns so well. Highly recommended." — Library Journal, Susan B. Hagloch
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1: What Every Woman Who Ever Smoked Should Know
Chapter 2: Managing Your Weight and Looking Great: Making Friends with Mother Nature
Chapter 3: Eating Less and Enjoying It More
Chapter 4: Exercise-Minimizing Gain with Minimal Pain
Chapter 5: Gaining a Little and Getting Okay with It
Chapter 6: Special Concerns
Chapter 7: Quitting for Good
Chapter 8: The Chic of Quitting
Additional Reading and Resources for Weight and Mood Management
Selected Bibliography
Index
PUBLICATION DETAILS
PUBLICATION DATE: 2009 November
PAGES: 168
SIZE: 5 1/2 x 8 1/2
INDEXED: Yes
BIBLIOGRAPY: Yes
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Cynthia S. Pomerleau, Ph.D., worked in the University of Michigan Department of Psychiatry from 1985 to 2009 as a research professor and as director of the Nicotine Research Laboratory, where much of her research focused on the impact of smoking on women (e.g., menstrual
cycle effects, postcessation weight gain, depression). She is the author of more than a hundred articles and book chapters on smoking and a contributor to the 2001 Surgeon General’s Report on Women and Smoking. Prior to training in psychology and neuroscience, she had a varied
career characterized by a long-standing interest in women’s issues. She wrote her doctoral dissertation on autobiographies of English women in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries at the University of
Pennsylvania and subsequently directed an Oral History Project on Women
Physicians at the Medical College of Pennsylvania. She lives in Ann
Arbor and Empire, Michigan, with her husband and collaborator, Ovide
Pomerleau.
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