Cigarette Smoking Behavior: Self-Managed Change
In the present study, three self-managed treatment programs were compared with respect to their ability to effect and maintain change in the cigarette smoking behavior of 27 subject volunteers from the population of employees of a Veterans Administration hospital. Subjects were randomly assigned to...
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ndltd-unt.edu-info-ark-67531-metadc3323192018-12-04T05:32:04Z Cigarette Smoking Behavior: Self-Managed Change Taylor, Paul Wesley self-managed treatment cigarette smoking Smoking. Behavior modification. Self-control. In the present study, three self-managed treatment programs were compared with respect to their ability to effect and maintain change in the cigarette smoking behavior of 27 subject volunteers from the population of employees of a Veterans Administration hospital. Subjects were randomly assigned to a self—imposed delay group, a self-directed relaxation group, and a self-monitoring group. The experimental program lasted 6 weeks with a 20-minute individual meeting each week. Three months following treatment, subjects were contacted by mail and were asked to monitor their smoking behavior for one week, and to return their average daily smoking rate by mail. The results provide support for the effectiveness of the self-management technique of self-imposed delay as a durability—enhancing treatment procedure. The effectiveness of self-management techniques as a general class of treatment strategies was not supported. A task for future research would be to establish the effectiveness of the delay technique implemented earlier in the cigarette smoking chain, as well as to determine whether effectiveness is increased or decreased by a specification of the content of a delay interval. North Texas State University Butler, Joel R. Haynes, Jack Read Schneider, Lawrence J. Aronson, Harriet Johnson, Douglas A. 1977-05 Thesis or Dissertation v, 66 leaves : ill. Text local-cont-no: 1002783959-Taylor call-no: 379 N81d no.1179 untcat: b1113579 oclc: 3132897 https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc332319/ ark: ark:/67531/metadc332319 English Public Taylor, Paul Wesley Copyright Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights reserved. |
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In the present study, three self-managed treatment programs were compared with respect to their ability to effect and maintain change in the cigarette smoking behavior of 27 subject volunteers from the population of employees of a Veterans Administration hospital. Subjects were randomly assigned to a self—imposed delay group, a self-directed relaxation group, and a self-monitoring group. The experimental program lasted 6 weeks with a 20-minute individual meeting each week. Three months following treatment, subjects were contacted by mail and were asked to monitor their smoking behavior for one week, and to return their average daily smoking rate by mail. The results provide support for the effectiveness of the self-management technique of self-imposed delay as a durability—enhancing treatment procedure. The effectiveness of self-management techniques as a general class of treatment strategies was not supported. A task for future research would be to establish the effectiveness of the delay technique implemented earlier in the cigarette smoking chain, as well as to determine whether effectiveness is increased or decreased by a specification of the content of a delay interval. |
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