About Us

About Us

We Are Here For YOU!

Welcome to tobaccohealingcentre.com. We are a dedicated group of health care professionals who have been in the business of providing high quality tobacco addiction treatment services since 1989.

As the years have become decades we have evolved a residential treatment program which is very effective and which will be available here on this site as our resources and abilities allow. We want to share our experience, strength and hope with you and your family and friends.

We began as addiction counselors encountering our own profound addiction to tobacco.

Some of us have other addictions but we all found this one to be the most difficult and powerful. That is why we do this work. That is why this site is offered to the smokers of the world who just want to be tobacco free and share some ideas on how to go about achieving that.

We run an actual residential tobacco treatment program and this is where the site is based.

Examples

  • You will come to an early morning meeting streamed live and in real time sequence.
  • You will be part of the experience through group links and become a community member.
  • You will build your very own recovery plan and review it with a counselor.

These are just a few of the options under development.

“Like me, very few smokers who take this residency program ever smoke again and those that do most often reframe their experience and get right back into recovery having learned yet another lesson in their journey to freedom.”
Judy Gurr, Alumni – 2010

We hope you can use these tools and strategies to get your freedom back. We are here for YOU!

Our Mission

The Tobacco Healing Center is committed to providing a world class, ‘state of the art’ tobacco recovery experience delivered by top professionals to serve the recovery needs of both our on-line members and our ‘hands on’ smokers wishing to break free from tobacco addiction.

We are committed to providing comprehensive all addiction healing with a special focus on tobacco addiction.

About Murray Kelly

Prof. Murray Bruce Michael Kelly, B.A., NC-TAS, PhD (Cand.)

Canada

Director of Addiction Services
Tobacco Healing Center
Adjunct Professor First Nations
University of Canada, Department of Science
5104 Opeongo Road
Woodlawn, Ontario
Canada, KOA 3MO

USA

Visiting Professor of Addiction Studies
University of Florida, College of Medicine
Gainesville, Florida

Author/Principal Trainer

– Coming Full Circle, A Recovery Manual for First Nations Smokers
– Learning to Be Tobacco Free, A School Based Recovery Textbook for First Nations Elementary Schools
– Learning to Be Tobacco Free, A School Based Recovery Textbook for Northern Schools
– Tobacco Addiction Counselor National Certification Course, (Industry Standard for the United States and Canadian Credential)
– The New Treatment Primer, Advanced Addiction Therapies
– Tobacco 101, Epidemiology of Tobacco Addiction
– Alcohol 101, College of Medicine, UF
– TobaccoSchool.com Lesson Plans
– Tobacco School Unified Health Message System
– New Tools for Survival (Recovery Manual for Smokers)
– New Tools for Teens (Recovery Manual for Teen Smokers)
– A Spiritual Journey – The Medicine Bag, First Nations Tobacco Recovery Manuals
– Triage Manual for Phone Support Coaches
– Template Scripts for Radio Tobacco
– Healing Circle Protocols (Walk of Life)
– Tobacco Addiction Counselor Training Program
– Schizophrenic Tobacco Recovery Program

Overview Tobacco Recovery System Work -1987-2005

– ZYBAN Plus Support Phone Line Program
– Tobacco 101, U of Florida School of Medicine
– The Unbroken Chain of Integration, Advanced Recovery Theory
– The Tobacco Collective, Treating the Unconscious Component
– Coming Full Circle, A Recovery Manual for Native American Smokers
– The Tobacco in Schools Recovery Project

Founder
1989
Smokers Treatment Centers of America
Founder
1999
TobaccoSchool.com
Founder
1997 – Present
Radio Tobacco
Co-Host Radio Tobacco
Director
1989 – Present
Addiction Services, Smokers Treatment Center
Ottawa, Canada
Founding Member
1994
Neighborhood Tobacco Recovery Network
Principle Trainer
1995 – Present
Train & Transfer Team, Neighborhood Tobacco Recovery Network Cross Continent Training Tour – 40 Health Units and 60 Schools
Developer Walk of Life (Healing Tool)
Addiction Technology Integrated with the Medicine Wheel
Designer
1996
Addiction Counselor Training Program
Member
2000 – 2001
Advisory Board Rnet Health (Recovery Network)
1991 – 1994 Professional Tobacco Addiction Counselor, Smokers Treatment Center.
Founder & Program Director, Smokers Treatment Center.
Co-developer, Vanier French Community Tobacco Recovery Project.
1989 – 1991 Tobacco Addiction Counselor, Smokers
Treatment Center
1987 – 1988 Board Member, Ottawa/Carleton Lung Association
Counselor, Countdown Program, Lung Association

Notes:

— Co-author of New Tools for Survival, A Guide to Building Your Own Recovery.
— Principle Trainer, Smokers Treatment Center’s Train & Transfer Programs.
— Advisor to the Nechi Institute on Alcohol and Drug Education for the Urban Aboriginal, Adolescent Smoking Survey & Research Project.
— Co-developer of the Aboriginal Tobacco Recovery Manual in conjunction with The Nechi Institute on Alcohol and Drug Education.
— Advisor to the Canadian Youth Foundation.
— Principle Designer, Kick Butt Program, a teen smoking cessation program.
— Principle Trainer/Facilitator, Kick Butt program, A.Y. Jackson Secondary School, J.S. Woodsworth, Rideau High, Confederation High, etc.
— Addiction Consultant, Quitters Panel, Breaking Through the smoke screen Conference, North Gower, Ontario.
— Board Member, Canadian Foundation for Healthy Family Living and Personal Growth.
— Developer of The Integrated Addiction Recovery Model, a theoretical framework for the recovery of the tobacco addicted person.

Phone Support Experience

— Lung Association Countdown Help Line
— Smokers Treatment Centre Phone Support Program (5 years) Nurses
— Ottawa Carleton Tobacco Information Line
— Northern Ontario Smokers/Trainers Support Line – Nurses
— National Counselors Support Program (90)
— Neighborhood Tobacco Recovery Network (National Support)
— GlaxoWellcome U.S.A., Occupational Health Training
— Inuit Cessation Training & Phone Support
— Canadian Labor Congress Union Health Program (training & field support)
— French Counselors Training & Support Program
— Spanish Tobacco School Recovery Program
— Canadian ZYBAN Plus Support Program (180,000 Calls)

Our History

The Tobacco Healing Centre in conjunction with Patient Support International offers a ‘state of the art and science’ program for the effective treatment of tobacco addiction.

Residential treatment programs are delivered both in-house and in the field by a fully integrated world-class therapeutic team of highly experienced and respected counselors.

This professional addiction healing group has also developed in conjunction with the University of Florida’s, College of Medicine the NAADAC Tobacco Addiction Specialist Certification Course for membership in the Association of Addiction Professionals. In 2004 the Certification Course became the Canadian Standard credentialed by the Canadian Addiction counselors Certification Federation, CACCF.

Background
These combined programs have been perfected through years of practice and researchbeginning in 1989 with the founding of the first Smokers Treatment Center in Ottawa, Canada. Over the course of nine years many hundreds of smokers were given the opportunity to break free from their addiction to tobacco and the body of knowledge regarding the most effective treatment protocols were advanced considerably. This was an outpatient program with weekend residential detoxification options.

Over 300 therapeutic instruments were developed and tested in real time, real life situations with outstanding results. The first formal independent study was conducted in 1995-96 by the Queens University Field Research group led by Dr. Dr. Caroline Weber, of the School of Industrial Relations. At the end of the two year study the group reported an 87% recovery rate.

Service Offering
Currently the treatment and training teams are offering a 7 and 10-Day Intensive Treatment experience for the tobacco addicted person who has some trouble in putting tobacco behind them.

The Certification Training Course can be delivered in conjunction with or separately as the need arises.

Our Team

Prof. Murray Kelly TAS, PhD (Cand.)
Director, Addiction Services

Philip J. McMahon Psy.D(psychotherapy),D.min (couns),M.S.(psych),R.psy,C.psy
clinical-forensic psychologist
Clinical Director

Dr. Doug Davies
Medical Director

Ellen Holmes RT
Co-Counsel

Heather Dickson TAS
Facility & Administrative Management

Patrick Kelly  TAS

Web Site Director

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