PSYC 3403 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Droopy, Inhalant, Ketamine

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3403
• Professor: John Weekes

Document Summary

Exposure to cues associated with alcohol and other drug use can prompt urges as well as cravings. Accept the context, how to handle it; cogniively be aware. Delay postpone the act of consumpion. Subsitute get a glass of water instead of another heineken. Urge surf physical sensaions: take an inventory of how you experience an urge, noice the physical sensaions how your body is reacing, repeat the focus on physical sensaion. Challenge and change your thoughts: use self-talk construcively, not destrucively! You are human and have a right to make mistakes. I will leave or change the situaion or environment. I will put of the decision to drink for 15 minutes. I will remember that most urges are ime-limited and i can wait it out not drink. I will remind myself that my only true needs are for air, water, food and shelter. I will think of something unrelated to drinking.