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This podcast is the narrated version of my article How to Help Smokers Escape Their Doomed Romance with Cigarettes.
Why understanding Stockholm syndrome can help you help smokers quit.
In this episode I talk about:
- Why ‘Stockholm syndrome’ is everywhere
- The high focus and emotional attachment connection
- The sole provider: ‘Without me you’re nothing!
- Why familiarity feels so good
- Talk to your clients about about how smoking will try to win them back
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References/Notes:
- Meeting a stranger when physiologically aroused increases the chance of having romantic feelings towards them. It’s because of a strong connection between anxiety, arousal and attraction. In the ‘shaky bridge study’ carried out by psychologists Arthur Aron and Don Dutton in the 1970s, men who met a woman on a high, rickety bridge found the encounter sexier and more romantic than those who met her on a low, stable one. The researchers also found that photos of members of the opposite sex were more attractive to people who had just got off a roller coaster, compared with those who were waiting to get on. And couples were more loved-up after watching a suspense-filled thriller than a calmer film.Dutton, D. G., & Aron, A. (1974). Some evidence for heightened sexual attraction under conditions of high anxiety. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 30, 510-517.
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