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5 pages in length. As long as people have been smoking, they have also been trying to stop. While this dichotomy serves to illustrate the dual nature of this particular human vice, it also helps scientific research to delineate what techniques work best for smokers to achieve their cessation goal. Wynd's article focuses upon the implementation of guided imagery as a means by which to enhance the realization of immediate smoking cessation in conjunction with long-term abstinence, a combination that is not readily fulfilled with other methods people typically use to stop smoking. Much to the author's delight, her hypothesis was supported by results from a two-year follow-up on respondents' success rates. No additional sources used.
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of this particular human vice, it also helps scientific research to delineate what techniques work best for smokers to achieve their cessation goal. Wynds (2005) article focuses upon the
implementation of guided imagery as a means by which to enhance the realization of immediate smoking cessation in conjunction with long-term abstinence, a combination that is not readily fulfilled with
other methods people typically use to stop smoking. As is common with myriad empirical studies, the controlled group that receives the actual method under examination does much better than
the one that only receives the placebo effect, a reality that did not escape Wynds experiment. Much to the authors delight, her hypothesis was supported by results from a
two-year follow-up on respondents success rates. II. PROBLEM STATEMENT Wynd (2005) clarity of the problem helps readers understand the extent to which certain methods of smoking cessation have a
much higher rate of success than others in the quest to stop smoking. However, a greater concern beyond getting smokers to quit by virtue of that certain method is
whether or not they will remain smoke-free long after they have stopped the method. Wynd (2005) postulated that guided imagery - defined as "a highly focused form of concentration
that creates an alteration of sensations, awareness, and perceptions with the same biopsychosocial, integrative properties that allow people to process sensory information" (Wynd, 2005, p. 246). As Wynd (2005)
notes, empirical studies on guided imaging are few, but there is enough data available from previous findings of similar research that provides a basis upon which this topic is wholly
researchable. Justification for this study and the way in which this problem is significant to nursing is reflects how research in any
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