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Within the framework of therapy-outcome research, behavior-modification approaches to the treatment of smoking are reviewed and evaluated. Case reports, studies without control groups, and the few controlled comparisons of 2 or more treatment methods are considered separately; the behavioristic techniques are then compared against the more traditional smoking treatments (withdrawal clinics, drug treatments, group therapy). Though the lack of standardized methodology and the wide variation in subject-selection procedures make strict comparison difficult, it is clear that behavior-modification techniques have not been demonstrably superior either to other treatment methods or to placebo-attention procedures. A number of methodological factors and conceptual issues are discussed in relation to the as yet limited success of behavior therapies with the smoking habit.

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Social desirability ratings for CPI items were obtained from 68 female and 59 male college students. Simple means and standard deviations of the ratings were compared with previously published scale values and dispersions in the case of 186 overlapping CPI-MMPI items. The results showed high comparability on scale values so that the simple means of the item ratings may be used similarly to previously published MMPI item values obtained by using scaling techniques Simple standard deviations of individual item ratings, however, tended to be generally larger than the associated discriminal dispersions published for such items.

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