SMART Track

An app by SMART Recovery Australia

SMART Track is currently used by thousands of people looking to make healthy changes relating to a range of addictive or problematic behaviours associated with alcohol, cocaine, ecstasy, heroin, methamphetamine, pharmaceutical, tobacco, food, gambling, sex, shopping, and many more.

Based on the globally renowned SMART Recovery program, SMART Track is designed to support people to track their progress, receive tailored feedback and work towards personally meaningful goals.

Personalised

Use the ‘Me’ button to personalise SMART Track, including your reasons for change, main behaviour of concern, and personal or professional contacts and services. The ‘Me’ button is also where you can upload your own images, videos and written motivations to help you ride out an urge.

Questions and tailored feedback

Questions appear in the app once per week. Your responses to these questions allow you to track your progress across a range of important life areas. You can use the ‘progress’ page to see an overview of how you are tracking over time. For more detailed information, you can click on each of the feedback domains.

Interactive urge log

When you experience an urge, pressing the ‘Urge’ button will bring up the personalised video, image and/or written motivation entered in the ‘Me’ section of the app. A range of other hints, tips and motivations are also provided. This content comes directly from SMART Recovery participants and facilitators interviewed during the development of SMART Track, as well as SMART Recovery resources. To support self-management, SMART Track also prompts you to reflect on the strength, duration and triggers of an urge and to identify helpful and less helpful management strategies.

7-day plan

At the end of your week, you can use SMART Track to set your 7-day plan. SMART Track will provide you with discrete reminders about upcoming tasks, congratulate and celebrate when goals are achieved, allow plans to be modified and show progress across time.

Resources

View helpful content comprising self-management resources and lived experience stories.

What people say:

"To be able to set my own goals and plans each week was very refreshing. Then to be able to track how I was going and realise when I got urges, was a great way of seeing changes and patterns." - Geoff (SMART Track user)

About the program behind SMART Track

SMART Recovery is a practical program designed to help people address and change addictive behaviours and move forward with their life. Available online or in-person, weekly SMART Recovery support groups are safe and non-judgmental spaces for people to work towards goals of their choosing, at a pace that works for them.

When should you use SMART Track?

SMART Track is designed to be flexible. Participant and facilitator feedback suggests that it may be used before attending a SMART Recovery meeting (to answer questions and get feedback), after a SMART meeting (to set a 7-day plan), and between SMART meetings (to track and manage urges, tick off and modify 7-day plan goals, read resources, and view and reflect on feedback). To get the most out of SMART Track, we recommend that participants get in the habit of answering the questions on a regular basis (the more often you answer the questions, the more meaningful the feedback will be).

SMART Track is research informed

SMART-track has been developed in close consultation with SMART Recovery participants and facilitators across NSW as part of a research project conducted by SMART Recovery Australia in collaboration with researchers from The University of Wollongong, The University of Newcastle, The University of New South Wales, The University of Queensland, Monash University, Harvard University, King’s College London.

Funding for this research was provided by the NSW Ministry of Health.

App design and development services were provided by GHO Sydney.