Expanding treatment is a much more effective investment and can reduce the extent of drug use in our community
This motivates the individual to smoke
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Behavioral treatments, based on principles of behavioral and cognitive psychology, attempt to bolster smokers self-control over their smoking behavior by helping them change unhelpful cognitions (i.e., thoughts, beliefs, and attitudes) and by structuring efforts to change smoking behavior through a range of techniques such as goal setting (e.g., setting a quit day), self-monitoring (e.g., record keeping to identify times and places where at which someone smokes), rewards, and skills training to help smokers learn, practice, and implement techniques to help them resist urges to smoke after quitting (81)