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Thursday, October 25, 2007
Exhibit Hall
A Breath of Life on the Yellow Brick Road
Akmal T. Muwwakkil, PhD, The Energy Institute of the Healing Arts Foundation Inc, Health, akmalmuwwakkil@yahoo.com, Bettye Bettye Muwwakkil, BS, The Energy Institute of the Healing Arts Foundation Inc, bettyegoodnews@yahoo.com, Bettye Muwwakkil, CHt, The Energy Institute of the Healing Arts Foundation Inc, Health, bettyegoodnews@yahoo.com. Learning Objectives: Increase awareness to a comprehensive healthy lifestyle smoking cessation training for dually addicted (tobacco, alcohol and other drugs) women using non-conventional approaches. Increase knowledge to the need to offer alternative modalities in cessation services. Increase the knowledge of healthy lifestyle trainings to promote healthy living among dually addicted adults.
Audience: Health care providers, addiction counselors, medical doctors,
Key Points: For the past three years, the Energy Institute of the Healing Arts Foundation a Complementary Alternative non-profit healthcare organization offers a holistically (spiritual physical, behavioral, psychological) based, comprehensive tobacco control program integrating a range of elements promoting smoking cessation and healthy lifestyles to clients enrolled in a substance abuse intensive outpatient program.For the past three years, the Energy Institute of the Healing Arts Foundation a Complementary Alternative non-profit healthcare organization offers a holistically (spiritual physical, behavioral, psychological) based, comprehensive tobacco control program integrating a range of elements promoting smoking cessation and healthy lifestyles to clients enrolled in a substance abuse intensive outpatient program. A Breath of Life training targeted 107-dually addicted residents of Prince George's County, Maryland, with 22% Caucasians, 85% African Americans, 40% males, 60% women and ages 21-55. The health challenges sorted-out were hepatitis-C, type 2-diabetes, depression, hypertension, obesity, and HIV/AIDS. The 12-week and two-hour weekly sessions offered healthy lifestyles and life skills trainings, acupuncture, hypnosis, aromatherapy, assessments, coaching, quit plan, NRT's, follow-up services, resources, referrals and evaluations.
Learning Objectives: The purpose of this workshop is to introduce and evaluate a non-conventional approach to a comprehensive smoking cessation service integrating healthy lifestyle training targeting dually addicted adults.
Benefits: Smoking cessation project is significant for research, practice and policy suggesting the importance of integrating holistic approaches and modalities into smoking cessation practices to promote cessation and healthy living.