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About our Lending Library

The 3 south bay SMART Recovery Meetings in the South Bay (San Jose Monday & Wednesday, and Los Gatos Friday), run a Netflix-style lending library out of the meetings. It basically works like this:

A number of the books to the right are a part of our lending library. If you are interested in borrowing one, come to any of the above-mentioned meetings on Mon-Weds-Fri. Ask any meeting facilitator about the book you are interested in, and we will procure it from our lending library, and bring it to the next meeting. Just give us a small cash deposit for the book, and keep it as long as you need to read it. Whenever you want you can swap it out with any facilitator for another book in our lending library. When you're done using our library we will refund you your deposit.

We feel this is a very useful service to offer and encourage our local SMART Recovery member to take advantage of this.

Books that are not listed as "Available in Lending Library" are still good reads and we recommend them, all books have links to online booksellers for purchase.

 
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Changing Old Habits for Good
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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Changing Old Habits for Good
Ph.D., G. Alan Marlatt

Kick bad habits—for good!

Nearly everybody has at least one self-destructive habit they can’t eliminate— from spending too much time online to eating too much ice cream. Changing an old habit is no easy business and more than 90% of people relapse within a year. This one-of-a-kind guide helps readers separate good habits from bad, evaluate the risks and benefits, prepare themselves for change, and make the change—for good.
  • Dr. Marlatt is a groundbreaking author at the top of the relapse prevention field
  • This book shares the latest research on kicking old habits for good

About the Author

G. Alan Marlatt, Ph.D., Director of the Addictive Behaviors Research Center, is a professor of psychology at the School of Public Health at the University of Washington. He’s currently conducting a study on Mindfulness-based Relapse Prevention funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse, and is widely published on the subject of relapse prevention.

Deborah S. Romaine is the co-author of dozens of successful health books, including Thyroid Balance, and senior writer for the four-volume Facts On File Encyclopedia of Health and Medicine.