You Have Quit Smoking and Now Want to Keep from "Falling

question 48

Multiple Choice

You have quit smoking and now want to keep from "falling back" into this old habit.To maintain the "new non-smoking you," you imagine someone offering you a cigarette, and you politely turning them down.This image is followed by imagining a pleasant, rewarding scene of yourself being told by the doctor that you are now so healthy that you should live to a ripe old age.You have just used the technique known as

• A) thought stopping.
• B) covert sensitization.
• C) desensitization.
• D) covert reinforcement.

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Definitions:

Enzyme

Biological molecules that significantly speed up the rate of virtually all of the chemical reactions within cells.

Catalyzes

To increase the rate of a chemical reaction without undergoing any permanent chemical change, often pertaining to the action of enzymes.

Cofactor

A non-protein chemical compound or metallic ion that is required for a protein's biological activity to occur.

Enzymes

Substances of biological origin that greatly enhance the speed of most chemical interactions happening in cellular environments.