The efforts to balance long-term and short-term satisfactions is a major topic in many SMART Meetings.

This Focus, really opens the meeting format up to a varied topic "list".

Stopping an addictive behavior is actually pretty easy.... you just stop. The more complictaed and sometimes difficult aspect is learning to live comfortably without resorting to the addictive behavior.

So by focusing, learning, discussing, brainstorming Lifestyle Balance, we learn to effectively and gracefully live our lives.
SMART is not about managing away emotions; it is about learning to balance and appreciate the actual significance of emotions.

In SMART recovery, many people find that they actually experience a wider range of emotions and feel more alive emotionally, yet they find that this need not create problems or be disturbing.

In this way you can build a happy, healthy lifestyle-based on your personally chosen values and goals.