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Addiction, cigarette smoking, and voluntary control of action: Do cigarette smokers lose their free will?
Opinions differ widely as to whether addicts lose the ability to control their behavior and employ free will. This article reviews empirical findings regarding multiple questions relevant to the issue of free will among addicted smokers: Is smoking voluntary behavior? Can people quit smoking? Why do...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5800589/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29450229 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.abrep.2017.01.003 |
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description | Opinions differ widely as to whether addicts lose the ability to control their behavior and employ free will. This article reviews empirical findings regarding multiple questions relevant to the issue of free will among addicted smokers: Is smoking voluntary behavior? Can people quit smoking? Why don't people quit smoking? Why do smokers relapse when they try to quit? Do addicted smokers suffer from irresistible cravings? Are there some people who cannot quit? Are there conditions that make resistance impossible? Why would they smoke knowing it can kill them? The evidence reviewed here seems most consistent with the view that smokers retain control over their actions but cannot easily stop having frequent desires to smoke. |
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spelling | pubmed-58005892018-02-15 Addiction, cigarette smoking, and voluntary control of action: Do cigarette smokers lose their free will? Baumeister, Roy F. Addict Behav Rep Virtual Special Section on ‘Free Will and Addictive Behaviours’; Edited by Antony Moss, Marcantonio Spada, and Roy Baumeister Opinions differ widely as to whether addicts lose the ability to control their behavior and employ free will. This article reviews empirical findings regarding multiple questions relevant to the issue of free will among addicted smokers: Is smoking voluntary behavior? Can people quit smoking? Why don't people quit smoking? Why do smokers relapse when they try to quit? Do addicted smokers suffer from irresistible cravings? Are there some people who cannot quit? Are there conditions that make resistance impossible? Why would they smoke knowing it can kill them? The evidence reviewed here seems most consistent with the view that smokers retain control over their actions but cannot easily stop having frequent desires to smoke. Elsevier 2017-01-24 /pmc/articles/PMC5800589/ /pubmed/29450229 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.abrep.2017.01.003 Text en © 2017 The Author http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Virtual Special Section on ‘Free Will and Addictive Behaviours’; Edited by Antony Moss, Marcantonio Spada, and Roy Baumeister Baumeister, Roy F. Addiction, cigarette smoking, and voluntary control of action: Do cigarette smokers lose their free will? |
title | Addiction, cigarette smoking, and voluntary control of action: Do cigarette smokers lose their free will? |
title_full | Addiction, cigarette smoking, and voluntary control of action: Do cigarette smokers lose their free will? |
title_fullStr | Addiction, cigarette smoking, and voluntary control of action: Do cigarette smokers lose their free will? |
title_full_unstemmed | Addiction, cigarette smoking, and voluntary control of action: Do cigarette smokers lose their free will? |
title_short | Addiction, cigarette smoking, and voluntary control of action: Do cigarette smokers lose their free will? |
title_sort | addiction, cigarette smoking, and voluntary control of action: do cigarette smokers lose their free will? |
topic | Virtual Special Section on ‘Free Will and Addictive Behaviours’; Edited by Antony Moss, Marcantonio Spada, and Roy Baumeister |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5800589/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29450229 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.abrep.2017.01.003 |
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