Combining Therapy Procedures (Mysteries of Living 60 of 72)

Combining Therapy Procedures (Mysteries of Living 60 of 72)

Stephen F. Ledoux
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Combining many of the variables already working to reduce smoking produces the quitter’s procedure. This procedure comes into play near the end of the week of individual therapy sessions. During this week some previously introduced techniques stand alone (like alternative–behaviors, which continues whether or not other techniques are in use). Other techniques become irrelevant to the client’s efforts (like difficult to obtain, since the client no longer owns cigarettes).

Main Therapy Procedures (Mysteries of Living 59 of 72)

Main Therapy Procedures (Mysteries of Living 59 of 72)

Stephen F. Ledoux
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The Morrow–Study authors designed a particular set of procedures to produce appropriate responses. Most of these procedures involve self–control techniques that can be found in the literature. Our coverage here acknowledges some inherent technique overlaps, and includes some refinements to the techniques and their names.

Therapy Process (Mysteries of Living 58 of 72)

Therapy Process (Mysteries of Living 58 of 72)

Stephen F. Ledoux
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The quit–smoking intervention process contains two sequential components. The first involves daily individual sessions and the second involves weekly, and later, monthly, group sessions. Detailed descriptions of all the “self–control” techniques, which we merely mention by name in this column, appear in the subsequent “Therapy Procedures” column.

Therapy Success Rate (Mysteries of Living 57 of 72)

Therapy Success Rate (Mysteries of Living 57 of 72)

Stephen F. Ledoux
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The phrase “smoking–control therapy” covers many other different intervention types. Many if not most of them initially invoke aversive techniques as the main method to bring the client’s cigarette smoking down to a low daily rate. These aversive techniques directly address only one or two of the variables functionally related to smoking.