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For More
Information
write or phone:
Adirondack
Experience
HCR01 #13
Lake Placid NY
12946
(518) 523-1718
(518) 523-8045 fax
Toll Free:
1- 800-300-1718
Or Email Us:
adkexp@adkexp.com
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Copyright
@ 1998
Adirondack Experience
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WHY
QUIT?
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1. Tobacco products kill more people than AIDS,
homicides, suicides, car accidents, drunk driving accidents, fires,
alcohol, and drugs COMBINED!
2. Tobacco causes several kinds of cancers including lung, liver, heart,
and mouth.
3. Smoking causes emphysema, a condition in which you slowly suffocate
to death.
4. Tobacco causes your teeth to yellow and your clothes and breath to
reek.
5. Tobacco is expensive.
6. Tobacco causes low energy and frequent illness.
7. Tobacco causes debilitating conditions such as strokes and heart
attacks.
8. Smoking puts your friends and family members at risk from 2nd hand
smoke.
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ADVENTURE THERAPY
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A group of young men
learn about the dangers of using tobacco products.
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Adirondack
Experience (AE) has been running therapeutic programs
for 25 years in the pristine Adirondack Mountains of
upstate New York.
AE seeks to use the natural environment to help youth and
adults build self esteem and empowerment to manage their tobacco addictions
through such activities as canoeing, rock and ice climbing, rappelling,
high and low ropes courses, cross-county skiing, orienteering, hiking, and
camping. All activities are tailored to the participants' abilities
and are extremely safe.
AE utilizes perceived risk to push participants to step
outside their comfort zone to accomplish seemingly difficult tasks.
Many important issues are raised through this process including trust,
self-confidence, self-esteem, communication, stress management, group
support, team work, and goal setting. Correlations are drawn between
these issues and how they relate to the tobacco cessation process.
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TIME TO KICK BUTT
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In addition to Adventure Therapy, AE offers cessation classes
from Glens Falls Hospital's Kick Butt program. Kick
Butt utilizes a combination of education and group sessions to arm
participants with resources upon which to draw once leaving the
program. Daily classes include stress management, nicotine
replacement, coping with cravings, feelings expression, healthy lifestyle,
and self hypnosis.
A heavy emphasis is placed on group sessions in which individuals can
share, in confidentiality, thoughts and feelings surrounding their
addiction issues. It is during these sessions that relationships are
developed with the hope that individuals will leave the program with a new
group of friends, to call upon as a support system for months to come.
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Many participants
feel that the group sessions are the most valuable part of the program
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THE PROGRAM:
DAY 1: Participants arrive. Group decides when to give
up cigarettes. Stress management begins during the evening with Yoga.
DAY 2: 1st smoke-free day. Participants begin using Nicorette
gum if needed. Focus on healthy eating. Education and therapeutic
groups throughout the day in combination with adventure activity.
DAY 3: Usually the hardest in terms of withdrawal. Group pulls
together to support each other in common goal to be nicotine free.
Groups and adventure activities continue.
DAY 4: Participants begin to feel the positive health effects of
being nicotine free and active outdoors. Group begins to think about
how they are going to cope when they go home. Group sessions and
adventure activities continue.
DAY 5: Group is feeling empowered and
ready to return home with newly found support system and tools upon which to
draw as they deal with future cravings (and a great new t-shirt!).
WHO CAN ATTEND?
* Are you 13 years old or
older?
* Do you want to quit?
* Are you in moderate
physical condition?
* Are you comfortable living
with 7 other individuals for 5 days?
If you answered yes to these
questions, you are eligible.
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