What we’re about
Welcome to SMART Recovery®, a modern, science-based addiction recovery support group—where participants learn self-empowering techniques to aid their recovery through mutual-help face-to-face and online meetings and services. No matter what your addiction, SMART Recovery tools and techniques can help you overcome the behavior. SMART Recovery uses tools based on scientifically proven methods for addiction recovery such as Rational Emotive Behavioral Therapy (REBT) and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) techniques.
Our 4-point program offers tools and techniques for:
1 ~ Building and Maintaining Motivation
2 ~ Coping with Urges
3 ~ Managing Thoughts, Feelings, and Behaviors
4 ~ Living a Balanced Life
SMART Recovery advocates choice, so that those seeking recovery can choose what works best for them from a variety of options. The SMART Recovery goal is for you to achieve a healthy, positive and balanced lifestyle and to “graduate” when you feel your addictive behavior is behind you, not to remain a life-long participant in the program. Upon graduation, many SMART participants volunteer as meeting facilitators or in another capacity to help “pay forward” the gains they achieved.
Learn more about SMART Recovery on the national web site at www.smartrecovery.org
You can find many more meetings in Connecticut and beyond using the meeting finder on the SMART Recovery USA web site.
NOTE: SMART Recovery is not a 12 Step recovery organization. SMART Recovery is a recognized resource for substance abuse and addiction recovery by the American Academy of Family Physicians, the Center for Health Care Evaluation, The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), US Department of Health and Human Services, and the American Society of Addiction Medicine.
Feel free to contact the organizer with questions.
Upcoming events (4+)
See all- Friday evening online meetingSouthbury, Southbury, CT
Join us for a Friday online evening meeting on Zoom (details below).
We'll check in, set a loose agenda, and help each other work on issues around abstaining from addictive behavior.You do not need to give your name. If it's your first meeting feel free to sit and listen or jump right in as you see fit.
Please note:
This meeting is OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.
No RSVP is required. Most of our regular attendees are not on Meetup, so don't be deterred if you only see one or two people signed up there.
To join the meeting, please click the join button on the meeting page on the SMART Recovery USA meeting finder:
https://meetings.smartrecovery.org/meetings/4248/ - Saturday morning online meetingNew Haven, New Haven, CT
Join us for a Saturday, mid-morning online meeting. Details on how to join are on the meeting's page on the SMART Recovery USA meeting finder at https://meetings.smartrecovery.org/meetings/2933/
We'll check in, set an agenda, and work on issues around abstaining from addictive behavior.
You do not need to give your name, and if it's your first meeting feel free to sit and listen or jump right in as you see fit.
Please note:
No RSVP is required. Most of our regular attendees are not on Meetup, so don't be deterred if you only see one or two people signed up.
- Sunday evening online meetingLink visible for attendees
Join us for a Sunday online evening meeting on Zoom (details below).
We'll check in, set a loose agenda, and help each other work on issues around abstaining from addictive behavior.You do not need to give your name. If it's your first meeting feel free to sit and listen or jump right in as you see fit.
Please note:
This meeting is OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.
No RSVP is required. Most of our regular attendees are not on Meetup, so don't be deterred if you only see one or two people signed up there.
Details on how to join are on the meeting's page on the SMART Recovery USA meeting finder at https://meetings.smartrecovery.org/meetings/4638/
- Wednesday evening online meetingNew Haven, New Haven, CT
Join us for a Wednesday evening online meeting on Zoom (details below).
We'll check in, set a loose agenda, and help each other work on issues around abstaining from addictive behavior.You do not need to give your name. If it's your first meeting feel free to sit and listen or jump right in as you see fit.
Please note:
This meeting is OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.
No RSVP is required. Most of our regular attendees are not on Meetup, so don't be deterred if you only see one or two people signed up there.
Details on how to join can be found on the meeting's page on the SMART Recovery USA meeting finder at https://meetings.smartrecovery.org/meetings/2347/
