There is a special occasion that many people try to make changes in their lives: New Year’s Resolution. According to Statistic Brain Institute (2015), 45 % percent of the people in the U.S. make New Year’s Resolution in 2015, and among those people, only 8 % people successfully achieving their resolution. The number shows that how hard it is to make changes and to achieve the goal. People may need the strategies for making changes for the behavior. The transtheoretical model (TTM), also known as Stages of Changes model, was developed by Procheska and DiClemente (Boston University School of Public Health, 2013). TTM proposes that people change overtime for their health behavior. There are six stages of change: precontemplation, …show more content…
In this stage, people actually modify their behavior and their environment to keep moving forward with that new action. They will keep the behavior within the last 6 months. Process of change in action to maintenance stage is helping relationships, counter conditioning, reinforcement management and stimulus control. Helping relationships is support such caring, openness, trust, and acceptance regarding for a change (Ries et al.,2009). Counter conditioning is learning about healthier behavior that can alternate the problem (Ries et al.,2009). Reinforcement management is rewarding the positive behavior and reducing the rewards coming from negative behavior. Stimulus control is re-engineering the environment for the reminders and cues. The support encourages the healthy behavior and get rid of the unhealthy behavior (Boston University School of Public Health, 2013). This stage’s preferred intervention is the reaffirmation of the commitment by monitoring the plan change, informing the benefits, rewarding success. After I made the decision about using the sauna, I tried sauna after workout at the gym. Going to go to the gym associated me to go to the sauna as