Quitting smoking and other addictions is more successful with support. Public tobacco cessation support groups are offered at the People’s Place Community Center in Gardner, MA and in the Briggs Conference Room in Athol, MA.
Professionally facilitated classes at your location bring a high-value and life-changing resource to the people you care about. Workbooks and interactive teaching materials give every smoker a chance to develop their unique Quit Plan.
Groups are always offered without cost to participants – no cost, no co-pay, no insurance requirements.
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Quitting smoking or any other unhealthy relationship with a substance is more successful with support.
“Moody Happens” (And it’s a good thing!) Sometimes people joke about the mood swings while going through the process of quitting smoking (and other chemical addictions, too.) But anyone who has been through it realizes it’s nothing to joke about. It can be really unsettling to feel like your feelings are out of control. But […]
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Today is your day! If you’re already sober, smober, or “clean” (I’m not really a fan of that word because it implies that some people are “dirty”) then today is the day that you push forward into a new or deeper daily discipline. Time to stretch your limits and walk/jog/run a little farther, meditate or
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Recently in a QuittersWin group we ended up spending a bit of time talking about some of the intangibles of addiction and recovery. We all agreed that there is a “part of us that doesn’t show up on an x-ray.” We may refer to it by different names, but I think we all have it.
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Change can be uncomfortable, especially when change involves monkeying with well established routines. Our morning rituals and routines are probably the most deeply ingrained. When a behavior we want to extinguish is attached to another familiar routine, change can be tough. Let’s look at the most common behavioral trigger discussed in our weekly QuittersWin tobacco
When we listen to music, with or without words, we are changed in measurable ways. Our hormone levels, heart rate, blood pressure and other medically measurable metrics can be influenced by what we’re listening to. I know that there are some songs that make it easier for me to drive too fast. I know we’ve
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“Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story?” If you’re not familiar with the award winning musical ‘Hamilton,’ there’s a number that talks about who lives, who dies, and who tells your story. Of all of the things we might have given up or lost to our addiction, there’s one we may have overlooked. If
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“A 5-Headed Dragon? Are You Serious?” If you’re new to QuittersWin maybe you haven’t heard about the dragon, Besochemps. If you only get the daily texts messages, but haven’t dug any deeper into the web sites, the blog, the Facebook page, joined a class, or dialed in for the Friday conference call, perhaps you don’t
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“Hey – What’s That in Your Ear?” It may be easy to overlook, but music can really help us change how we feel. Having a “playlist for a crappy day” can definitely lift us out of a funk. What’s important is to be aware of the feelings evoked by music. There are feelings attached to
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“I think a spiritual journey is not so much a journey of discovery. It’s a journey of recovery. It’s a journey of uncovering your own inner nature. It’s already there.”– Billy Corgan Well THAT, my friends, is a lot to think about. Just to be clear – I use the word spiritual when I refer
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Even without the photo, I suspect that lots of you recognized this iconic quote, spoken by Billie Burke, as the character Glinda. When I was a young child watching the Wizard of Oz, I recall thinking that if Glinda was really a good witch, she would have saved Dorothy all of that hassle and told
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Ready For A Change? If words like quit, stop, or give up are too negative, maybe we should change how we talk about our journey. Consider “changing a behavior,” rather than giving up cigarettes. Maybe we’d feel differently about “taking back our freedom,” instead of quitting drinking. I love the word “recovery,” in part because
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“3 Things to Quit Right Now” On our way to the “BIG” quit, here are some OTHER things we need to quit: 1. Fearing Change If we aren’t changing, we may not be living! Change happens and it isn’t always comfortable, but it feels better when we decide to be the agent of change (rather
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If you aren’t completely free yet, give this idea a try today – I Double Dog Dare you! Mini-quits are a great example of “flexing your quit muscles” that can increase your competence and confidence at the same time! And mini-quits are as simple as they sound. Just declare a number of (waking) hours that
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Panic is greatly overrated (and nowhere near as much fun as it looks like on TV shows.) Let’s CALMLY try some competent advice and some compassionate support. QuittersWin wants to offer that judgment-free, stigma-free, cost-free advice and support. Quitters everywhere are learning that staying in touch means staying on track. Shout-out to a whole bunch
Many folks have painful episodes or incidents in their pasts. In an effort to minimize emotional pain from such incidents, many of us engage in some form of “self-medication” which can easily lead to addictions of various sorts. The physical aspect of addiction has it’s roots in a dependence upon a chemical. But the emotional,
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