title: Smoking cessation in a single session: an update.
abstract: An approach to helping people cease smoking in a single, 50-minute session is outlined. A number of elements including direct suggestions to satisfy patients' expectations, metaphors, indirect commands, and motivation-enhancing statements are used, these being combined and sequenced in a pattern considered to be appropriate to the patient. Within elements, possible alternatives are outlined.
authors.affiliation: University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia.
authors.forename: H E
authors.initials: HE
authors.lastname: Stanton
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D009042:Motivation; D012064:Relaxation Therapy; D016540:Smoking Cessation / Q000379:methods* / Q000523:psychology; D013404:Suggestion; D013561:Symbolism