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In Smoking Cessation, Dr. Bonnie J. Spring demonstrates her behavioral approach to helping clients quit smoking. Nicotine addiction is a psychological as well as a physical phenomenon, so this approach focuses on recognizing the triggers for smoking and learning new ways to react to those triggers by replacing smoking with other behaviors. In this session, Dr. Spring works with a 42-year-old woman who is also a recovering alcoholic. She first looks at how the client is conflicted over smoking, cataloging what attracts and repels the client about the habit and, without pressuring her, tries to move the client toward choosing her own path toward smoking cessation. Read a review of this title from the PsycCRITIQUES database (PDF: 45KB)
Multicomponent behavioral treatment to help individuals quit smoking integrates different intervention techniques that have been empirically validated to promote smoking cessation. Cigarette smoking is conceptualized as a biopsychosocial phenomenon. An underlying premise is that some smokers are physically dependent on nicotine and can expect quitting to bring on withdrawal symptoms. In addition, all smokers are psychologically dependent on smoking and need to learn new skills that will enable them to react to triggers by substituting new behaviors in place of smoking.
Bonnie J. Spring, PhD, is currently a professor of psychology at the University of Illinois at Chicago and research scientist at Hines Hospital VA Medical Center. She is a licensed clinical psychologist and a diplomate of the American Board of Professional Psychology in health psychology. Her major research and clinical interests focus on the mechanisms that underlie cigarette smoking and obesity and on developing interventions to promote smoking cessation and other healthful behavior changes.
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