• Winning the Battle
• In this stage, the key is to replace your bad habit with a new lifestyle. Professional therapists call this stage maintenance. Countering, the technique we studied in stage 4, is the first step in this process. Promoting new habits is crucial to your success. If you only remove the old habit, you’re condemned to a lifetime of fighting off the urge to go back.

Attacking the Problem

• In this stage you finally do it. But you need to remember that action isn’t the first or the last step  in a change. This is not the only stage where important changes happen. To get this far, you had to change your awareness, your emotions, and your self-image as you moved from each of the earlier stages to the next.

• Planning Your Personal D-Day

• We live in a world that is accustomed to 30-second commercials that offer instant solutions. But we shouldn’t be surprised when the easy solutions don’t work: There are no magic bullets, no simple solutions on the path to deep and lasting change.

• Awareness—When You Know You Have a Problem

• People in this stage know they have a problem and want to understand their problem, but they don’t know what to do or they feel powerless to change. People in stage 2 are still far from making a commitment to change.