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The university tested, reusable packet includes:
1.
Habit Buster Guidebook - containing
all of the proven guidelines and techniques to break any and all bad
habits quickly, easily and in days.
2. Habit Buster Biofeedback Card
- a temperature sensitive biofeedback device that changes color as
self-control increases and habits are broken.
1.
Why are habits so hard to break?
2.
What exactly is the SPC HABIT BUSTER™ program?
3.
Why would The HABIT BUSTER™ program
work for me?
Question 1 –
Why are
habits so hard to break?
Answer – There are two
main reasons most habits are hard to break. First, many habits seem
to fill a basic need most people have today - the need to relieve
stress and/or the need for pleasure or happiness. Since the vast
majority of people are either stressed or depressed a good part of
the time, one can see how easy it is to fall prey to certain habits
especially habits of excess. This also explains why people who stop
one bad habit (e.g. smoking) without doing something about the need
factor often find another (e.g. overeating) taking its place.
The second major reason habits are hard to break is that even if you
can do something about the needs that a habit fulfills, once a habit
is deeply ingrained, it becomes automatic, involuntary or
sub-conscious i.e. the old habit automatically kicks in before you
have a chance to replace it with a new positive one.
Thus, if you wish to break a bad habit, you need to
(1) take care of the need
factor and (2) re-program
yourself so that the new positive habit automatically kicks in
before the old one does. This handbook presents a program that has
effectively dealt with both of these factors.
Question 2 –
What exactly is the SPC HABIT BUST TM program?
Answer – The Habit
Buster™ program presented in the handbook is an outgrowth of a
highly effective proven method for giving people greater control
over all aspects of their lives. The method, referred to as
Self-Programmed Control2 (SPC )3, was developed by clinical
psychologist Alfred A. Barrios, Ph.D., as a result of years of
research in the areas of higher order (Pavlovian) conditioning,
cognitive restructuring, guided imagery and biofeedback. There are
basically three parts to the Habit Buster™ program:
Part one presents some simple but powerful SPC techniques for
increasing your mental focus and willpower. This gives you a strong
feeling of hope and confidence that you can indeed accomplish your
goals.
Part two involves a unique biofeedback device called the Habit
Buster Biofeedback Card. This device allows you to eliminate the
urge or need for the habit right at the moment of need. Whenever you
feel the urge, instead of reaching for your habit you will reach for
the card and perform the SPC techniques on the back until the urge
has disappeared.
Part three involves a procedure known as focused visualization or
Self-Programming. In the more highly focused and relaxed state of
mind produced by the SPC techniques, you will be able to
self-program in the new habit so that it will automatically kick in
before the old one has a chance to rear its ugly head.
Question 3 –
Why
would THE HABIT BUSTER work for me?
Answer – This habit
breaking program has been tested and researched in at least four
different colleges and universities. The results achieved at East
Los Angeles College, UCLA, Santa Monica College and Southwest
College will give you some idea of how effective this program can be
for habits of excess. An anonymous questionnaire given to a total of
313 students at
the completion of the SPC class asked the students to (a)
list those areas they had been excessive in prior to the class and
(b) indicate which of these areas they had overcome as a
result of the class. The following are the tabulated results of the
percentages of students overcoming their excesses:
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Food 78% (100 of 129)
Cigarettes 73% (52 of
71)
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Alcohol 92% (59 of 64)
Television 86% (120 of 140) |
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Marijuana 72% (31 of 43)
Other Drugs 83% (16 of
19) |
Such startling results show that habits
can be easily broken using these remarkable new techniques, all
based on the power of your own mind. What some people call
willpower, or self control, can be learned. You now have in your
hands the tools that can break all of your bad habits, all you need
is the commitment to use them.
If you
plan to use the Habit Buster" program for a habit of physical
addiction to drugs or alcohol, it is strongly recommended that your
withdrawal phase be monitored by your physician.
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