STEP TWELVE:
CHAMPION THE CAUSE
I cannot overemphasize the difference that treating smoking for what it is (a deadly addiction) has made within the recovery enovironment at Mackay Manor. The healing is deeper. The outcomes are better.
The conscience is clearer.
If / When this difference is experienced by your organization, I encourage you to share it. Change in the addictions industry, like in all industries, is slow. But change is coming.
“For decades, people in recovery from addictions to other drugs have had their lives cut short by tobacco-related
diseases. These dear friends, patients, and colleagues died from nicotine addiction, but it could also be said they died from blindness—the failure to see nicotine as an addictive drug and the failure to embrace the need for smoking
cessation within our understanding of recovery. For years, such casualties could be written off to the lack of knowledge about smoking and health and the lack of knowledge about the effects of smoking on recovery from
other addictions. That simply is no longer the case. Science has weighed in on these issues, and the findings are excruciatingly clear.”
- William White, Emeritus Senior Research Consultant at Chestnut Health Systems / Lighthouse Institute
White, W. (2011). Smoking and addiction recovery: For people in recovery
Posted at: www.williamwhitepapers.org.
The conscience is clearer.
If / When this difference is experienced by your organization, I encourage you to share it. Change in the addictions industry, like in all industries, is slow. But change is coming.
“For decades, people in recovery from addictions to other drugs have had their lives cut short by tobacco-related
diseases. These dear friends, patients, and colleagues died from nicotine addiction, but it could also be said they died from blindness—the failure to see nicotine as an addictive drug and the failure to embrace the need for smoking
cessation within our understanding of recovery. For years, such casualties could be written off to the lack of knowledge about smoking and health and the lack of knowledge about the effects of smoking on recovery from
other addictions. That simply is no longer the case. Science has weighed in on these issues, and the findings are excruciatingly clear.”
- William White, Emeritus Senior Research Consultant at Chestnut Health Systems / Lighthouse Institute
White, W. (2011). Smoking and addiction recovery: For people in recovery
Posted at: www.williamwhitepapers.org.