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Substitute Signals. The automated weedkiller technique was developed by Psychologist David Shapiro and Psycho-physiologist Bernard Tursky of Harvard Medical School. It was tried first on 40 people this spring. Not everyone was able to keep down with the beeps; one participant had a relapse after his wife, unaware that he had left his Bellboy in the car, drove off on a shopping trip. But of the original 40, including a telephone man who set up the beepers, 34 stuck it out until the system had cut them down to as few as four cigarettes a day. Some have even...
...Shapiro says that the system works on the theory that smoking is a simple habit set off by "cues" - tension, ending a meal or performing a task. To break the habit, he explains, "we put people on a diet and provide them with a substitute for the old signal. The old associations have to be broken down...
Another researcher, Dr. David Shapiro of the Harvard Medical School, has trained subjects to raise and lower their blood pressure in response to a tone feedback. Shapiro is hopeful that persons suffering from chronic high blood pressure may one day learn to lower it at will, but clearly much more will have to be known about the autonomic system itself. Theoretically, man may someday be able to control his internal processes to relieve insomnia, regulate constipation and improve sexual response. But, warns Dr. Neal E. Miller of Rockefeller University, who has done much of the seminal research to date...
SUMNER L. SHAPIRO...
...have training in psychiatry, psy chology, sociology, cultural anthropol ogy and economics in order to deal with lems." all Added aspects of Shapiro: the the patient's family med prob icine man will bring back "the com passion of the oldtime family doctor...