STEP SEVEN:
INCREASE TREATMENT/COUNSELING OFFERING ON A VOLUNTARY BASIS,
AND INITIATE TOBACCO RECOVERY MEASURES
The more staff that you expose to tobacco-related training, the more tobacco workshops you facilitate, and the higher your resulting increase in organizational capacity and competency in this area becomes, the more your organization will naturally begin to offer more advanced treatment and counseling options to clients you work with who genuinely want to be rid of tobacco addiction.
As stated previously, most of our clients have a sincere desire to be healthy. A lot of the time, if we offer help to them they will take it, and this includes help for quitting smoking. We have found that our clients who were able to stop smoking have had lower relapse rates (these aren’t audited statistics, just our own observations). In addition, we have observed intangibles in our clients who quit smoking, including a deepened, more complete recovery, as they no longer medicate unwanted feelings with tobacco but rather have learned to deal with them.
Concurrent to being able to offer more in-depth counseling and tobacco treatment to our clients, we also began implementing measures to help tobacco recovery. We implemented tobacco-free zones. We stopped referring to
breaks as “smoke breaks”. We designated specific floors for those who were recovering from tobacco addiction so as to minimize accidental sabotage. These initiatives gained their own kind of momentum and for the first time we could
really believe that the entire house could one day be completely dedicated to recovering from tobacco.
I would recommend that any of your clients (or staff) who want to gain a deeper understanding of tobacco addiction work through the Tobacco Manual and Workbook (www.libertastobacco.com ).
As stated previously, most of our clients have a sincere desire to be healthy. A lot of the time, if we offer help to them they will take it, and this includes help for quitting smoking. We have found that our clients who were able to stop smoking have had lower relapse rates (these aren’t audited statistics, just our own observations). In addition, we have observed intangibles in our clients who quit smoking, including a deepened, more complete recovery, as they no longer medicate unwanted feelings with tobacco but rather have learned to deal with them.
Concurrent to being able to offer more in-depth counseling and tobacco treatment to our clients, we also began implementing measures to help tobacco recovery. We implemented tobacco-free zones. We stopped referring to
breaks as “smoke breaks”. We designated specific floors for those who were recovering from tobacco addiction so as to minimize accidental sabotage. These initiatives gained their own kind of momentum and for the first time we could
really believe that the entire house could one day be completely dedicated to recovering from tobacco.
I would recommend that any of your clients (or staff) who want to gain a deeper understanding of tobacco addiction work through the Tobacco Manual and Workbook (www.libertastobacco.com ).