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K D Stumpfe

Publications and source records attributed to K D Stumpfe.

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PubMed1995

[Smoking cessation with alternative methods].

Almost every former smoker has ceased smoking by himself. Everybody has collected his own experience with it and tried different methods to avoid withdrawal symptoms and the urge to start smoking again. During the last decades, many different methods for the therapy of smoking cessation have been applied. These techniques were often developed with the help of individual experiences. Many times, there is a lack of a scientific ground and verifiable investigations for these activities. The most important parameter for the smoking cessation is the clear and strong intention to quit. This intention may be supported by different methods. The mental requirements are discussed and the numerous methods and drugs available to quit smoking are described.

Complementary Therapies↗
PubMed1994

[The first cigarette].

Student were asked about the circumstances smoking their first cigarette. The situation was described. In the age from 12 to 16 years one or two cigarettes were tested at a hidden place in the companion of some friends. The most important causes of smoking the first cigarette was curiosity or testing.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1989

[Adolescence and smoking--the smoking career].

The results of investigations about the begin and the further course of smoking of children and young people are collected. Then the course of a smoker-career is demonstrated in five sections: Test-smoking, irregular smoking, regular few smoking, regular many smoking and nicotine-dependence. The main factors of these sections are discussed.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1983

[Psychosomatic relations between the date of death and birth].

In the life of old people the birthday has a special importance because at this day the entire family comes together and celebrates the anniversary. By means of 2000 advertisements of a daily newspaper the problem was investigated wether the birthday has a life-lengthening consequence in the meaning of that the old man or woman wants to be alive till this day and then he will die in peace. The results show fluctuations about the average monthly death-rate without statistical significance. Such a psychosomatic influence on the time of death commonly does not exist, although it may occur in an individual case.

Aged↗
PubMed1980

[Psychosomatics of psychogenic faint (vasovagal syncope) (author's transl)].

Psychogenic faint (vasovagal syncope) shows no difference with respect to age and frequency of attacks in women and men. A marked increase in frequency is found in earlier ages up to 25. Physical complaints include: blackout, weakness of the limbs, sensation of heat, nausea, palpitations, drowsiness. Mental sensations include: feeling of being overpowered, fear, helplessness, being unable to run away and of relief. Subjective emotional involvement in the situation seems to be decisive for eliciting psychogenic syncope, the subject being no longer able to control the situation from the psychic aspect and allows himself to "fall in to a faint".

Adolescent↗
PubMed1975

[Psychogenic death and suicide (author's transl)].

In psychogenic death, the persons finds himself in a seriously distressing situation of which he believes that he has been thrown into this helpless position and that there is no way out. Humans behave passively and die quietly. In suicide, on the other hand, a person ends his life actively. The problem of why, on the one hand, people bring about death actively while in psychogenic death they "let themselves die" is enquired into. In psychogenic death, the difficulties of the emergencies produced by external factors can no longer be coped with mentally: the person wants to live but he cannot go on. In suicide, it seems to the person that the projection of the future, produced by inner factors, is no longer worth living: the person does not want to live, although he could.

Adaptation, Psychological↗