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  A Cognitive-Behavioral Approach: Treating Cocaine Addiction
 
 

Exhibit 5: Coping With Thoughts About Cocaine
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There are several ways of coping with thoughts about cocaine:

  • Thinking through and remembering the end of the last high
  • Challenging your thoughts
  • Recalling the negative consequences of cocaine use
  • Distracting yourself
  • Talking through the thought


Before the next session, keep track of your automatic thoughts about cocaine when they occur, and then record a positive thought and coping skills.
Thought about cocainePositive thought, coping skill used
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

Adapted from Monti et al. 1989.


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