Natural Process of Quitting Forever
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Distraction is Secondary The Addiction and Recovery Organization advises you to use distraction, but they rob you of the opportunity to think about quitting forever with one-day-at-a-time. When something is resolved in your mind, you have a way to think about it. One-day-at-a-time keeps you from resolving the issue of whether you are going to drink alcohol or use drugs. If you just distract yourself, you are not facing the responsibility to yourself to decide whether you will ever drink or use drugs again. The feeling to use will go away with just using distraction, but with one day- at-a-time, you will never be sure if you will again intoxicate yourself with alcohol or drugs. One-day-at-a-time distraction is first because you distract yourself from drinking or using by just getting through the day. Quitting forever makes distraction come second. You know you are never going to drink or use drugs again, but you also know you feel like drinking or using. You are confident you are not going to drink or drug because of quitting forever. You accept any feelings or thoughts you have about drinking. Thoughts and feelings to drink are not a sign of relapse
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The Natural Process of Quitting Forever was written over a period of years. It started when I was seeing people who wanted to avoid 12 Step attendances while still wanting to end alcohol and drug problems. The book we were using generated questions and was not specific about quitting forever. I was tape recording and video taping the sessions for my review. I noticed I was answering the same questions over again with different people. I wrote down what I was telling them and started using the essays when I talked with new people. I always encouraged people to criticize what was written for clarity and content. At a point in time, I had enough written where I comb bound the papers with a table of contents and started selling my book. I kept editing and revising and adding to the book until it reached the point of what you are reading today. Author House afforded me the opportunity to publish professionally what I had been publishing and selling using my desktop publishing program with comb binding. It was written talking to people about quitting forever all alcohol and drug use while they read the book for that purpose. People are quitting forever by reading the book The Natural Process of Quitting Forever. It was not something I sat down and wrote but was written because people quitting forever told me it was helpful information leading them along their path to recovery. Check out my web site: quittingforever.org where I explain core concepts using cartoon like graphic illustration with verbal and written explanation. The web site also has some short video explanations by me.
About the Author
Rational Therapy and Recovery, Inc.
150 North Center Street #303
Reno, Nevada 89501
(775) 786-8801
Corporate Federal ID: 71-0873386
State of Nevada Taxpayer ID: 1003181058
Quitting Forever: U.S. Trade Mark
Reno City Business License Since 1992
Licensed Alcohol and Drug Abuse Therapist: NV 00464
Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist: NV 0602
Bill Weber has a Bachelors degree in psychology from Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, New York. He has a Masters degree in psychology from State University of New York at Geneseo. He took additional courses for the University of Nevada at Reno where he taught Social Psychology and earned additional college credits to become licensed as an alcohol and drug therapist and marriage and family therapist in the state of Nevada. He has been in private practice since 1986 and began talking to people about quitting forever in 1989.He received instruction from Albert Ellis, Ph.D. in Rational Emotive Behavioral Therapy. He has taken training from Allen Fruzetti, Ph.D. on Dialectical Behavioral Therapy. Jack Trimpey, LCSW the founder of Rational Recovery provided years of individual insight, guidance and instruction. My Motivational Interviewing training was part of being able to focus on peoples’ thoughts and intent on quitting forever and influenced the model "The Natural Process." The influence of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy from reading and talking with Steve C. Hayes, Ph.D. is woven throughout the book.