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Sure they can. You ever see someone drink too much tequila, get sick, and never want it again? Or go to mcdonalds, see a cockroach, and never go again? It's ca
by maneesh 9y ago
Sure they can. You ever see someone drink too much tequila, get sick, and never want it again? Or go to mcdonalds, see a cockroach, and never go again?
It's called an aversion, and aversion therapy was a common method of habit cessation through the mid 90s. Check out this study on how >50% of 2-pack a day smokers quit smoking after just 6 sessions:
https://www.schickshadel.com/documents/Commercial_Stop_Smoking_Program.pdf https://www.schickshadel.com/documents/Commercial_Stop_Smoki...
- erikb 9y agoI know a lot of people who don't like to ever drink again in the morning, and I also see them again with a bottle of tequila in the evening. Joke aside, a successful aversion therapy will also train another habit additionally to the addiction habit, that just has the opposite reaction, and the hope is that it becomes stronger than the original habit. So it's more of a method of application rather than a counter argument. Wouldn't you say?