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Rational Therapy and Recovery, Inc.150 North Center Street #303Reno, Nevada 89501(775) 786-8801 Corporate Federal ID: 71-0873386State of Nevada Taxpayer ID: 1003181058Quitting Forever: U.S. Trade MarkReno City Business License Since 1992Licensed Alcohol and Drug Abuse Therapist: NV 00464Licensed 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.

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The Natural Process of Quitting Forever

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Contents

Introduction.....................................................................................................................1History of Quitting Forever......................................................................................................5Consider The Dominant Advise.....................................................................................................7One Day at a TimeParalyzed: Possible Response to Abstinent ForeverReturn to critical analysis of the remaining sentences:Match Your Goals to Your Emotional StrengthHow Will You Be Paralyzed?Distraction is SecondaryIs Quitting Forever too Easy or too Hard?Informed Consent: Reasons Why You May Not Want to Read Quitting Forever..........................................................12Myth in Recovery.................................................................................................................14Principles of Quitting Forever...................................................................................................15Values Expressed in Quitting ForeverDo You Want to Quit Using Alcohol and Drugs Forever?Should You Go to Twelve-Step Groups Like AA and NA?..............................................................................19What is Twelve-Step Recovery and Relapse Prevention Like?........................................................................21Relapse PreventionPeople Underestimate Their Want to Drink Alcohol and Use Drugs...................................................................24What Happened to You?............................................................................................................27Self-Analysis SurveyYou Can't Convince Yourself to Quit ForeverAmbivalence About Quitting Forever...............................................................................................32When Making up Your Mind Weigh Both SidesPeople just look for reasons to not drink.The Real Reason You Want to Use Alcohol and/or DrugsListen to Your Mind Plead and Bargain for Alcohol and/or DrugsHold onto Your Decision to Never Drink or Drug AgainDo you feel any doubt about carrying out your decision?Your Mind is Not Made Up, and You Feel Like a Drink/DrugExerciseQuitting Forever: The Basics.....................................................................................................38Question the Brain-Disease Concept...............................................................................................40Infectious-Disease ConceptCompulsive-Obsession Disease ConceptBiological-Disease ConceptA Disease or a Natural Aftereffect of Drinking or Using DrugsYou have been reinforced for using alcohol or a drug.There is a Way OutThe Brain-Recovery Model: Who Controls Your Hands?...............................................................................46Bring It Back to Drinking Alcohol and Using DrugsWhy You Can Keep Yourself from Drinking and DrugsSolve problems so your life will be better. Do not solve problems to keep yourself from drinking or drugging.....................52The Test.........................................................................................................................52Thoughts to Use Will Continue After Quitting ForeverLearn a Set of Skills Where You Will Be Successful All the TimeWhat is the difference between a choice and a decision?..........................................................................57Decide, and You Know What You are Doing Before Choosing.Quitting Forever: There are four areas of readiness to change:...................................................................62Summary and ReviewThe Model of Quitting Forever....................................................................................................66Think About Quitting Forever Alcohol and Drug UseIntend on Quitting ForeverAction DecisionOne Day at a TimeNever Say NeverCounting TimeDisease Concept of AddictionYou Believe You Cannot Quit ForeverYou Believe You Are an Alcoholic or an AddictSolve Problems First or Quit Forever to Solve ProblemsPutting Off Quitting Forever: ProcrastinationMaintaining AbstinenceQuitting Forever: Permanent ExitDeliberating and Changing Your MindHow to Keep Yourself from Drinking or Drugging...................................................................................88Explicit Instruction: Making Your DecisionSomeone After Quitting Forever Drank and Used AgainLife Goes On.....................................................................................................................93Court Ruling Finding AA/NA Twelve-Step to be Religious Activity..................................................................97

Chapter One

I talked to people about quitting forever before I was licensed as an alcohol and drug abuse counselor twelve years ago. I have always been talking and listening to people who continued permanent exit from further alcohol and drug use after quitting forever on their own.

I studied the Twelve Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) and could never buy into it. They seemed unbelievable to me. The groups seemed counterproductive. The one-day-at-a-time approach seemed like a promise to be able to drink or drug again, which was little more than one-delay-at-a-time. I learned relapse prevention and counseled people on using it. People who were not drinking or drugging told me that was not the way they were doing it. Rational Emotive Behavioral Therapy was showing ways to abstain without attending twelve-step groups and was among the first to point out that the twelve steps were religious activity.

Rational Recovery was an off shoot from Rational Emotive Behavioral Therapy. I became involved in Rational Recovery due to my training at the Institute on Rational Emotive Therapy (RET), now called the Albert Ellis Institute. For about seven years, I provided free Rational Recovery groups in the community, talking to people about their problems with being forced to attend twelve-step groups. People would stop using alcohol and drugs. I pointed out the fact anyone could keep themselves from drinking or using drugs. The question was how long they want to carry it out.

I received an opportunity to be paid to talk to people about Rational Recovery. I started offering groups in my private practice. One of the problems I kept having in both the free and paid sessions was that people came to me not knowing we were talking about lifelong abstinence. They heard incorrectly that Rational Recovery was about controlled drinking. They thought they would be joining a group of people to make friends. People did not always understand I was talking about quitting forever when they came to Rational Recovery.

I had other problems with Rational Recovery. Rational Recovery became as dogmatic as the recovery groups they were criticizing. Rational Recovery became exclusive with the corporate name and buzzwords like AVRT and the Beast. Rational Recovery ended all free recovery groups in the community and actively pursued anyone using the name Rational Recovery threatening legal action if they did not stop. They became critical of counselors and stopped trying to influence recovery in America. Rational Recovery morphed into an Internet website people pay to enter. Rational Recovery is not influenced by discoveries made from research and no longer teaches others how to talk to people about quitting the...