Health promotion is a prioritary topic in health psychology. It refers to the development and improvement of behaviors and life styles leading to achieve a healthy life. There is a clear relationship between people's hehavior and general health state. Life style and life quality determines how is the person in terms of health. Definitely there are habits acquired by the urban life style, that are harmful for health both physically and psychologically. In the present study, healthy life are studied based on scientific findings.

The addiction subject is nowadays a valid one, as well as in the past century. Not only because of the increase of people that are addict, but also because of the important effects that cause on people and their environments. There are many theoretical perspectives to approach the addiction problem, but the most convenient because of its therapeutic results is the one that issupported by the psychology of health. lt is based on the integral approach to the person. This paper describes a general therapeutic scheme to work with addicts from the cognitive behaviora lperspective.

El tema de las adicciones sigue tan vigente como en el siglo pasado, no solo por el incremento del número de personas que lo padecen sino también por las importantes secuelas que produceen el individuo y en su entorno. Existen diferentes enfoques teóricos para abordar la problemáticade las adicciones, sin embargo el que nos parece más conveniente por sus resultados terapéuticos es el que proviene desde la Psicología de la salud, basado en un enfoque integral en el abordaje del sujeto. El artículo fundamentalmente describe un esquema terapéutico general de su aplicación a los adictos, desde el enfoque cognitivo-conductual.

The addiction subject is nowadays a valid one, as well as in the past century. Not only because of the increase of people that are addict, but also because of the important effects that cause on people and their environments. There are many theoretical perspectives to approach the addiction problem, but the most convenient because of its therapeutic results is the one that issupported by the psychology of health. lt is based on the integral approach to the person. This paper describes a general therapeutic scheme to work with addicts from the cognitive behaviora lperspective.

Health promotion is a prioritary topic in health psychology. It refers to the development and improvement of behaviors and life styles leading to achieve a healthy life. There is a clear relationship between people's hehavior and general health state. Life style and life quality determines how is the person in terms of health. Definitely there are habits acquired by the urban life style, that are harmful for health both physically and psychologically. In the present study, healthy life are studied based on scientific findings.