In this study, a controller design method is proposed for controlling the discrete-time chaotic systems efficiently. The proposed control method is based on Generalized Predictive Control and uses NARMAX models as controlled models. In order to evaluate the performance of the proposed method, a proposed controller is applied to discrete-time chaotic systems, and then the control performance and initial sensitivity of the proposed controller are compared with those of the conventional model-based controler through computer simulations. Through simulations results, it is shown that the control performance of the proposed controller is superior to that of the conventional model-based controller and shown that the peorposed controller is less sensitive to initial values of discrete-time chaotic systems in comparison with the conventional model-based controller.