Build and maintain motivation
Connect change to your own values. Explore the benefits, costs, and reasons that matter to you—not reasons imposed by someone else.
Try: Change Plan or Cost-Benefit AnalysisThe SMART approach
Skills for change. Ownership of your recovery.
SMART Recovery is a secular, evidence-informed mutual-support approach. Its 4-Point Program turns insight into practical choices you can test in daily life.
The 4-Point Program
A framework, not a fixed sequence.
The points can be revisited in any order. Different tools may be useful at different stages of change.
Cope with urges and cravings
Understand how urges rise and pass, recognise triggers, and rehearse responses that support your longer-term goals.
Try: Urge Log or DENTSManage thoughts, feelings, and behaviours
Separate events from the beliefs and reactions that follow. Challenge thinking that gets in the way and practise more helpful responses.
Try: ABC ExerciseLive a balanced life
Recovery is more than stopping a behaviour. Build connection, purpose, health, and everyday routines that create a life you want to protect.
Try: Lifestyle Balance WheelInside a meeting
Conversation with a purpose.
Meetings combine mutual support with structured problem-solving. A trained facilitator keeps the discussion safe, practical, and relevant.
Explore meetings01
Welcome and check-in
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Choose current topics
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Discuss and practise tools
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Check-out and next steps
Good to know
SMART complements professional care.
Mutual-support meetings are not medical treatment or crisis care. People can use SMART on its own or alongside other recovery, health, and wellbeing support that works for them.