Originally Posted by TheEnd
You can use whatever process you want to apply, but show me what residential treatement center specializes in quitting smoking.
If they did, fewer people would successfully quit. Learned helplessness has not yet been popularized in relation to quitting smoking. Thank goodness.
Most people view smoking as an addiction, but as a choice by the addicted. Smokers are not seen as powerless or defective. They are encouraged to quit for good and never look back. They don't call themselves recovering smokers or that their addiction is based on their unresolved issues. People actually believe they can quit smoking, and they do.
I think addiction is addiction and there are lessons in how most people quit smoking that can be successfully generalized regardless of DOC.