‘Dirty’ to smoke
(N.Z. Press Assn.—Copyright) SEATTLE.
A shock-treatment programme is helping people who want to stop smoking in Seattle. It is a drastic therapy, however.
The shocks are emitted from electrodes pressed to the forearm of the “patient” who is strapped to the machine in a cubicle filled with smelly, stale butts and specimens of lungs rotted with emphysema. A pretty, but unmerciful female technician sends slight jolts more nerveracking than painful—through the smoker’s arm each time he or she takes a puff. The treatment, "aversion therapy,” is supplemented with group therapy during the five - day programme which is being offered by Health Research, Inc. Appeals are made continually to the persons vanity. He is told that it is “dirty” to smoke.
The programme costs SUSIOO and promoters say that 10 to 15 people have been enrolling each day.
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Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32677, 5 August 1971, Page 8
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