Breaking the Cigarette Habit: Effects of a Technique Involving Threatened Loss of Money

Abstract Participants in a program to break the cigarette habit posted money for a period of either 12 weeks (1965–66 groups) or 16 weeks (1866–1967 group). Participants forfeited their money to the group if they smoked, but earned their money back by completing specified periods of abstinence. Of 2...
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Abstract Participants in a program to break the cigarette habit posted money for a period of either 12 weeks (1965–66 groups) or 16 weeks (1866–1967 group). Participants forfeited their money to the group if they smoked, but earned their money back by completing specified periods of abstinence. Of 25 participants in a college community, 21 abstained for the duration of the program, and the success rates at follow-up periods of more than a year (for the 1965–66 groups) and of 3 months (for the 1966–67 group) from the end of the program are 38 % and 36%, respectively. Ausführliche Beschreibung