Review how the previous week went with your behavior change. Address the following:
1. What was your SMART goal? How did you do in achieving your SMART goal? My Smart goal was to stop my tobacco usage completely. This week I wen back to being a smoker.
2. Address successes & challenges. What strategies helped you to be successful? What challenges did you face? How did you deal with them? The reason that I started smoking again was that I was told my mom had cancer. It was a huge shock and I had not yet developed long-term coping strategies. I am struggling to regain motivation to start quitting again.
3. What feelings did you experience? When did you feel them? I am mad at my self. I don’t want to smoke anymore and with my mom having cancer one would think I would be motivated to quit but it’s more complex than that.
4. What did you learn this week? I learned that quitting smoking is a roller-coaster and I’m not sure when I get off.
5. What are your plans for next week? Will you continue with the change as is? Will you modify to make it more achievable or more challenging? I plan to continue to try and quit. I really don’t want to smoke and this is something I need to do for myself.
Review the entire process:
1. What was your SMART goal? Did it change at all during the project? I broke up my goal to quit smoking into small manageable steps so each week was a different goal were I continued to work towards my overall goal.
2. What helped you be successful? What things got in your way? How can you address these in the future? The support I felt from peers, and accountability really helped my success. But stress is one of my triggers to smoke and I had a lot of stress this semester. I will have to learn to be more resilient.
3. How did you benefit from this project? What did you learn about yourself? What did you learn about behavior change? I learned that behavior change is an ongoing process, I learned that a behavior change now can impact your life years down the road.
4. How did others and/or the environment benefit from you changing this behavior? I have always known that smoking is bad but I didn’t know how big of an impact it had on the environment. From the butts, to the smoke to the packaging, none of it is good.
5. Will you continue this behavior? Why or why not? I want to change because I know it is good for me I just have to over come the barriers
6. What recommendations do you have for others about making a lifestyle change? It may be hard but don’t give up, go at it with an open mind!
Wow Molly. I am very sorry to hear about your mom. Remain strong for her and yourself. I understand smoking helps you deal with your stress just know you have strong friends and family backing you up. If you need anything feel free to ask. Stay strong.
ReplyDeleteIm very sorry to hear about your mom Molly. I know that it must be a pretty difficult time for you, but stay strong. hang in there, were rooting for you and your mom.
ReplyDeleteI understand that smoking is very hard to quit and yes, like you said it will take time and breaking it into smaller manageable steps will help you along the way. Having a support group/system will also be a great way to quit smoking too. Sorry to hear that your mom is not well. Let this time be a self reevaluation time for yourself about how bad you do want to quit and how important it is for you to be healthy. Good luck and I know you can do it!
ReplyDeleteSorry to hear about your Mom Molly. I think I speak for everyone when I say that we really support you and our thoughts will be with you. Don't get too discouraged though. When the time is right, you can rethink the SMART goal and get back on track. Good luck miss Molly!
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