Abstract
Forty chronic smokers participated in a multisession treatment program designed both as a further assessment of the self-pacing procedure reported by Lando and Davison (1975) and as a partial replication of earlier aversive conditioning procedures. Subjects were randomly assigned to self-pacing, aversive conditioning, or a nonaversive control. A significant overall treatment effect emerged favoring aversive conditioning. Results did not support either the effectiveness of self-pacing or the cognitive dissonance explanation advanced for the Lando and Davison (1975) findings. Unfortunately, subjects in all conditions tended to increase smoking, eliminating specific between-group effects by the time of a 6-month follow-up.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 634-640 |
| Number of pages | 7 |
| Journal | Behavior Therapy |
| Volume | 7 |
| Issue number | 5 |
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| State | Published - Oct 1976 |