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A Comparison of Counterconditioning and Role-Playing Strategies in the Hypnotic Treatment for Cigarette Smoking

This study compared the relative efficacy of two different theoretically-derived strategies in the hypnotic treatment for cigarette smoking. The use of counterconditioning suggestions (present or absent) was compared to the use of role-playing suggestions (present or absent) in a two-way factorial design. Also investigated was whether there were any pretreatment variables which could predict successful long-term smoking control. Fifty adult chronic smokers were matched on the dimensions of base… more

Date: December 1984

Creator: Bowman, David Ross

Item Type: Thesis or Dissertation

Partner: UNT Libraries

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Physician Modeling Influences on Patient Smoking

Previous research with college students had supported that light and heavy smokers differentially imitate smoking models. Light smokers' smoking rates seemed to vary with the rates presented by a model, while heavy smokers' rates tended to remain relatively consistent. This study examined the effects of a smoking and nonsmoking physician model on 54 older, more chronic, in-patient smokers and extended the scope of research in this area by attempting to evaluate whether immediate modeling influe… more

Date: December 1983

Creator: Hanks, David T. (David Terry)

Item Type: Thesis or Dissertation

Partner: UNT Libraries

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A Comparison of Certain Personality Traits Between College Student Cigarette Smokers and Nonsmokers

This investigation seeks to determine whether certain personality traits of college students are related to their smoking habits. The purpose of the study is to determine whether significant personality differences exist among college students who can be classified as light smokers, heavy smokers, ex-smokers, and nonsmokers and to determine the nature of the differences. The study involved four male experimental groups and four female experimental groups, assigned on the basis of sex and cigare… more

Date: August 1974

Creator: Harter, James W.

Item Type: Thesis or Dissertation

Partner: UNT Libraries

President's Commission on Improving Economic Opportunity in Communities Dependent on Tobacco Production while Protecting Public Health

Executive Order 13168, dated September 27, 2000 established the President's Commission on Improving Economic Opportunity in Communities Dependent on Tobacco Production While Protecting Public Health (Commission). The purpose of the Commission is to provide advice to the President on changes occurring in the tobacco farming economy and recommend such measures as may be necessary to improve economic opportunity and development in communities that are dependent on tobacco production, and protect … more

Date: May 18, 2001

Creator: President's Commission on Improving Economic Opportunity in Communities Dependent on Tobacco Production while Protecting Public Health

Item Type: Website

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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[News Clip: AA Smoking]

Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.

Date: March 13, 1997, 10:00 p.m.

Duration: 53 seconds

Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)

Item Type: Video

Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

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[News Clip: Power of Puff]

Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.

Date: November 15, 1988, 10:00 p.m.

Duration: 2 minutes 22 seconds

Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)

Item Type: Video

Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

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[News Clip: Power of the Puff]

Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.

Date: November 16, 1988, 10:00 p.m.

Duration: 3 minutes 06 seconds

Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)

Item Type: Video

Location: 32.755488 -97.330766

Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

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[News Clip: Unveiling the Impact of Smoking on Health - A Compilation]

Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.

Date: May 2006

Duration: 33 seconds

Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)

Item Type: Video

Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[A man on a couch, smoking]

Photograph of a man sitting on a couch, smoking a cigarette. He looks slightly downwards with a serious expression on his face. The man is wearing a long-sleeve button-up shirt and trousers. The room appears to be dark with light entering the room from a window.

Date: [1950..1965]

Creator: Williams, Byrd M. (Byrd Moore), III

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

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Conversation about smoking

Recording of Raja Safdar Ali Khan and Jamsheed Ali discussing smoking in the Srinagar dialect of Burushaski.

Date: 2004

Duration: 56 minutes 37 seconds

Creator: Munshi, Sadaf

Item Type: Video

Partner: UNT College of Information

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[News Script: Smoke]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about "rapid smoking" as a method to quit smoking cigarettes, encouraged by the Tarrant County Cancer Society during a stop-smoking class.

Date: January 7, 1974, 8:25 a.m.

Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)

Item Type: Script

Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

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Elimination of Cigarette Smoking, Employing a New Aversive Conditioning Procedure

The study was designed to find a response on the behavioral level that would be an effective index across subjects for determining when conditioned aversive suppression of a response had been achieved. Ten male volunteers received shock during trials in which they had to smoke. Half of the subjects received a brief but more intense shock when they stopped smoking during a trial. A comparison of these subjects to the others showed their average amount of smoking suppression in pre- and post-trea… more

Date: May 1974

Creator: Himes, Jerome A.

Item Type: Thesis or Dissertation

Partner: UNT Libraries

[Man smoking from a pipe]

Photograph of a man smoking from a tobacco pipe. The man sits on a bench outside under a tree and is in the middle of inhaling while the picture is taken. His left hand holds up the pipe to his mouth while his right hand protects the flame from the wind.

Date: [1939..1989]

Creator: Clark, Joe

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Robert Shockley posing with his acoustic guitar]

Photograph of Robert Shockley playing an acoustic guitar and smoking a cigarette against a blue backdrop. Shockley was a victim of the AIDs epidemic.

Date: August 28, 1978

Creator: Williams, Byrd M. (Byrd Moore), IV, 1951-

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Two individuals dancing together while one is holding a cigarette]

Photograph of two individuals dancing together at night surrounded by blurred yellow lights. The two are both blondes with the one facing away having pink dyed ends. The women in the tank top holds a smoking cigarette in her fingers.

Date: unknown

Creator: Williams, Byrd M. (Byrd Moore), IV, 1951-

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

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Veterans and Smoking-Related Illnesses: Congress Enacts Limits to Compensation

With enactment of P.L. 105-178 (H.R. 2400), the Transportation Equity Act for the 21 Century (TEA-21), Congress limited authority of the Department of Veterans st Affairs (VA) to grant service-connected compensation to veterans who, after the enactment date, claim that their smoking-related illnesses are traceable to tobacco use that began during their military service. P.L. 105-178's prohibition on most smokingrelated VA claims is the resolution of an issue with potentially explosive federal c… more

Date: August 13, 1998

Creator: Snook, Dennis W.

Item Type: Report

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department