[HealthyTribes] 7/29 National Behavioral Health Network Webinar - A Journey to Recovery: What Does the Cigarette Represent

[Sanders Elizabeth C]

Hello,

Please see the below information on an upcoming 7/29 webinar hosted by the National Behavioral Health Network for Tobacco and Cancer Control. Consider watching it and/or sharing the announcement with your colleagues who work in behavioral health.

The webinar features Chad Morris of University of Colorado's Behavioral Health and Wellness Program - you may know Chad from trainings he has conducted in Oregon during the past several years.

Best, Beth

A Journey to Recovery: What Does the Cigarette Represent
Hosted by the National Behavioral Health Network for Tobacco and Cancer Control<http://www.thenationalcouncil.org/consulting-best-practices/national-behavioral-health-network-tobacco-cancer-control/>
Date: Tuesday, July 29, 2:00-3:30 pm EDT
Register for free at http://www.thenationalcouncil.org/events-and-training/webinars/<http://echo4.bluehornet.com/ct/42734198:27227679935:m:1:1606725767:6213DF2F81C5A3CF01E56CEB9E33C550:r>
Presenters: Eric Arauz, MLER, President, Arauz Inspirational Enterprises LLC; Chad Morris, PhD, Director, Behavioral Health and Wellness Program and Associate Professor, University of Colorado Denver; Steven Schroeder, MD, Director, Smoking Cessation Leadership Center, Distinguished Professor of Health and Health Care, University of California San Francisco

Anyone who has worked with someone who smokes, or battled a nicotine addiction themselves, knows that a cigarette represents more than just a habit. Whether you're a clinical provider, a behavioral health advocate, or someone with lived experience, you probably have numerous stories about what smoking means to someone. If you're a clinician, you've probably navigated this addiction with your clients, and if you're a smoker, then you know first-hand what a cigarette may represent in someone's life. Especially for those with mental health and addictions disorders, it may seem like cigarettes are "the only normal thing in an abnormal world." For Eric Arauz, who has battled bipolar disorder, PTSD, and alcohol and drug addiction, recovery was not just about symptom abatement - it was about his personal recovery to health.

Join Arauz as he discusses how we can change what recovery looks like. He'll share his own experiences of quitting and his journey to becoming tobacco-free. Dr. Chad Morris will join Eric to talk about how the treatment environment has perpetuated smoking, and how common myths prevent the behavioral health field from helping people recover and live healthier lives. Then, Dr. Steven Schroeder will explore how tobacco control and prevention efforts have largely missed the behavioral health population and how the 50th anniversary of the Surgeon General's Report on smoking and health may be the final impetus for change.
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