The Role of Exposure Techniques in Multi-component Smoking Cessation Treatments
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The main purpose of this research is to assess whether adding exposure therapy to the combination of multi-component cognitive-behavioural and nicotine patch therapies increases the effi cacy of this combination for smoking cessation. The research involved the comparison of results obtained from two treatment programmes that combined cognitive-behavioural techniques and nicotine patches, one including and the other excluding exposure therapy.
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