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Strategies for Change: (Not) Will Power

by Dr. Stephen Parker (Article selection and Commentary) on October 28, 2010

Years ago, California had a 1-800 hotline you could call if you were trying to quit smoking. They asked the callers if they could check back on them to see what strategies of quitting smoking worked. It turned out that a large variety of strategies worked, except for the strategy of using willpower. The problem [...]

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