Welcome to our Recovery Resources Section. Here we offer a range of things from books, manuals, charts, to poems that deal with the process of becoming tobacco free.
We invite you to explore with us the whole idea of becoming a free person, not just someone who does not smoke. Often the recovery experience can trigger a new confidence and energize the projects and initiatives we have wanted to complete for years. We begin to discover ourselves in a way for the first time since childhood.
We would like to hear your story and have you share your recovery experience with others who have taken a similar path.
Publications
Over the years we have written many books, textbooks and certification manuals focused on the tobacco challenge from the smoker’s perspective.
As a team of addiction professionals we build our knowledge base upon the matrix of what works and what medical science proves. We think of it as ‘The Art & Science of Healing Addictions, in this case tobacco. If it works for the smoker we keep it. If it doesn’t we file it for future reference.
Here are a few examples. If you have any questions just e-mail Professor Murray Kelly atpsi@igs.net We have an order form for some of the below listed titles.
1. New Tools for Survival, A Guide To Building Your Own Recovery
2. Coming Full Circle, A Recovery Manual for First Nations Smokers
3. The Walk of Life Book, The Complete Story of the Walk of Life
4. Learning To Be Tobacco Free, A School Based Recovery Textbook for First Nations and Northern Schools
5. Tobacco Addiction Specialist Certification Manual, CACCF, (Canada) NAADAC (U.S.A.)
6. The New Treatment Primer, How To Treat Tobacco Addiction In A Recovery Setting
7. The Walk of Life Workbook, A Guide to Healing Yourself and Your Family
8. Tobacco and Alcohol, Two Addictions, One Condition, An Integrated Treatment Strategy
9. Poems of Recovery, 20 Poems that Touch the Heart of Childhood with the Wisdom of an Old-timer
10. Poems for Elders, Poems of Wisdom and Experience
11. Learning To Be Tobacco Free, A School Based Recovery Textbook for Elementary Schools
12. The Book of Walks, A Collection of Walks from Ordinary People
Charts
Over the many years that we have been professionally assisting smokers we have found the use of charts to be very effective in producing the core information the treatment team requires to be of significant value.
We offer a few examples so you can examine and explore the information and see for yourself how a systematic and thorough approach to recovery planning can pay off. The more you know about yourself in relation to tobacco the better the recovery strategy can be.
Chart List
1. Family of Origin View or Download the Sample Chart
2. Friends Support View or Download the Sample Chart
3. Family Contract
4. School Support
5. Work Support
6. Friends Contract
7. Friends Support Potential
8. Support Matrix View or Download the Sample Chart
9. Activities & Emotions
10. Danger Zone Identification
11. Daily Action Plan
12. Relapse Learning View or Download the Sample Chart
13. Loss Identification
14. Self Assessment
15. Nutrition Plan
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