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H E Stanton

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Smoking cessation in a single session: an update.

An approach to helping people cease smoking in a single, 50-minute session is outlined. A number of elements including direct suggestions to satisfy patients' expectations, metaphors, indirect commands, and motivation-enhancing statements are used, these being combined and sequenced in a pattern considered to be appropriate to the patient. Within elements, possible alternatives are outlined.

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