Jan 6, 2020 | Alcohol, Coping With Urges, Managing Thoughts, Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT), Motivation
(That can be helpful in dealing with urges to use drugs, too) While there is no magic bullet to stop urges to drink or cravings for alcohol, there are ways to manage and reduce urges or cravings to drink. In this article, we provide 11 empirically validated ways to...
Dec 11, 2019 | Coping With Urges, Individuals, Motivation
What’s your plan? December is here and opportunities for urges and cravings seem to be everywhere. SMART volunteers have put their heads together to offer some suggestions to help you navigate this month’s challenges. Remember, people who achieve long-term...
Aug 28, 2019 | Alcohol, Conference, Coping With Urges, Lifestyle Balance, Managing Thoughts, Motivation
Provided by David Koss, SMART Recovery Facilitator, Capital SMART Participants in SMART Recovery, in fact all individuals who change problematic behavior, owe a debt a gratitude to the Transtheoretical Model of Behavior Change, as developed and refined since the late...
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Aug 15, 2019 | Coping With Urges, Events, Lifestyle Balance, Motivation, Podcast, SMART News
SMART Recovery was recently featured in Cigna’s Behavioral Awareness Series, in an episode entitled: Freedom From Addiction. SMART Recovery Board President, Bill Greer, is someone who understands addiction from two perspectives: as someone who has used the SMART...
Jul 25, 2019 | Motivation, SMART News, Volunteer
A guest blog by Sam29 Where to begin? I cannot express enough gratitude for the opportunities that SMART Recovery has given me over the years. This most recent one is why I continue to connect with this community. I was assigned to conduct an onsite Facilitator...
Jul 1, 2019 | Alcohol, Individuals, Motivation
My name is John Winslow and I’m a person in a long-term recovery, which for me means that I haven’t used alcohol or other drugs for over 43 years. When I first got into recovery at the age of twenty-six, we did not have the language that would allow me to...
