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The most difficult aspect of working with smokers is handling relapse. Most smokers do want to quit smoking. Once they build up their courage to finally attempt the very difficult task of quitting smoking, it is very discouraging to relapse back to cigarettes. Yet, three fourths of smokers who quit even for a short period of time do relapse within 1 year.1 An important question for clinicians is how to prevent relapse for those who do want to become nonsmokers but do not want to repeat the same discouraging relapse cycle again.
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O’Hara, P. (1991). Relapse Prevention. In: Cocores, J.A. (eds) The Clinical Management of Nicotine Dependence. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-9112-8_25
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