Substance Abuse category: 962 books

Everyone has temptations in their life & it is often difficult to overcome them or behave in a way that doesn't hurt those closest to us. Learn how to live your life in your own way, but still be kind to others. Discover why incidents happen as they do & what happens, when you choose bad behaviour...

This is a story of my experience of cigarette smoking and the attempts to stop this nasty habit. While it is a personal account of how I managed to quit smoking, it is my opinion that if you apply the methods I used you may very well be successful in giving up this bad habit. It isn't easy to stop smoking but hopefully if you give this a bash it could and should work for you.

You quit after every cigarette, but how to keep yourself from starting again? You are reading these words, which means that you are considering the fact that you need to quit smoking, once and for all. Perhaps you have already tried, perhaps you have only now started thinking about it, in either...

While twelve-step recovery teaches the importance of living one day at a time, recovery is about building a bright future out of the wreckage of the past. That's where planning is valuable for the individual in recovery. This delightful planner reinforces the benefit of doing the footwork, and working toward the results one desires.

“Body Sobriety” delivers an eye-opening approach to overcoming addiction. This book is an excellent resource for any type of addiction and allows addicts to start their recovery at home by teaching readers how to free themselves from a stress posture and eliminate their body’s destructive patterns....

The United States is still the land of opportunity, but many of our citizens have been left behindliving in cars, back alleys, abandoned buildings, and shelters provided for people who are homeless.Who are these people who are homeless in America? Blake Barrow answered the call of God to leave...

Porn addiction. You’d give anything to get out of it, but it’s not happening. Sometimes you feel you don’t have the strength to keep on fighting. I understand, and I’m here to tell you that there is hope. You don’t have to remain addicted for the rest of your life. Getting involved...

How To Toss Your Butt is a seven step method I used to stop smoking, without even realising that is what was happening. It explains the reasoning, ideas and theories behind how the various steps helped me to go from smoking 60 cigarettes a day (sometimes as many as 80 in a day) to literally none the next day and the nine years since, without cravings or withdrawals.

Clean and sober twenty days or twenty years -- it makes no difference. We all need a little help every once in a while. Barb Rogers has been sober for a long time. And she knows that doesn’t make a difference -- what makes a difference is that she’s clean and sober today. Rogers' newest book offers...

The Soul of Sponsorship explores the relationship of Bill Wilson, cofounder of Alcoholics Anonymous, and his spiritual adviser and friend, Father Ed Dowling. The Soul of Sponsorship explores the relationship of Bill Wilson, cofounder of Alcoholics Anonymous, and his spiritual adviser and friend,...

Drawing on her own experiences as a former drug addict along with the experiences of other recovered addicts and alcoholics, Pat MacEnulty has formulated seven tools to conquer a variety of addictions, including food, nicotine, drugs, alcohol or sex. Incorporating the teachings of mystics and spiritual traditions, MacEnulty offers a simple guide for transformation.

Even at twelve years old, Chris Lemig knows he's gay. He just doesn't want to believe it. Spurred on by intolerance, ignorance and fear, he takes his first steps into the closet and so begin twenty-three years of drinking, drugs and attempted suicides. It's only after he wakes up one morning, beaten...

After 35 in the Program of Alcoholics Anonymous, I am still in awe of the miracles I see. People who are so messed up when they first come into this program and totally change into a rational, even thinking human beings. This happens not by just going to meetings, that won't do it. It is only by fully...

After 35 in the Program of Alcoholics Anonymous, I am still in awe of the miracles I see. People who are so messed up when they first come into this program and totally change into a rational, even thinking human beings. This happens not by just going to meetings, that won't do it. It is only by fully...