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For nearly twenty years, sleep-deprived Americans have found natural, drug-free relief from insomnia with the help of Dr. Gregg D. Jacobs's Say Good Night to Insomnia. Jacobs's program, developed and tested at Harvard Medical School and based on cognitive behavioral therapy, has been shown to improve sleep long-term in 80 percent of patients, making it the gold standard for treatment. He provides techniques for eliminating sleeping pills; establishing sleep-promoting behaviors and lifestyle practices; and improving relaxation, reducing stress, and changing negative thoughts about sleep. In this updated edition, Jacobs surveys the limitations and dangers of the new generation of sleeping pills, dispels misleading and confusing claims about sleep and health, and shares cutting-edge research on insomnia that proves his approach is more effective than sleeping pills. Say Good Night to Insomnia is the definitive guide to overcoming insomnia without drugs for the thousands of Americans who are looking for a healthy night's rest.

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Herbert Benson, MD, is the Mind Body Medical Institute associate professor of medicine at Harvard. He is the author of the bestselling book The Relaxation Response, as well as many other trade books. His groundbreaking work established the modern field of mind body medicine. Dr. Benson is the director emeritus of the Benson-Henry Institute for Mind Body Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital. Herbert Benson, MD, is the Mind Body Medical Institute associate professor of medicine at Harvard. He is the author of the bestselling book The Relaxation Response, as well as many other trade books. His groundbreaking work established the modern field of mind body medicine. Dr. Benson is the director emeritus of the Benson-Henry Institute for Mind Body Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital. Timothy Andrés Pabon is an English- and Spanish-speaking voice-over artist who has worked extensively in advertising and audiobook narration. He has had acting roles on House of Cards and has also been a costar on HBO's acclaimed series The Wire opposite country music legend Steve Earl. As a stage actor, he has worked off-Broadway at the June Havoc Theatre, and his regional credits include Center Stage, the Shakespeare Theatre, Arena Stage, the Hippodrome, Olney Theatre, Rep Stage, and GALA Hispanic Theatre. Gregg D. Jacobs, PhD, is a behavioral sleep medicine specialist with over thirty years of experience in research, clinical practice, teaching, and dissemination in sleep medicine. As a senior scientist at Harvard's Mind/Body Medical Institute and an assistant professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, he spent almost twenty years treating and researching insomnia.

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