A multi-disciplinary treatment clinic designed a personalized recovery pathway for a client, Clara, who is seeking support to overcome a severe nicotine addiction. A clinical psychologist, a nurse, and a recovery mentor met to discuss potential interventions and recorded their recommendations on a digital board. These suggestions are summarised in Table 3 below.
| Suggestions recorded by the team |
|---|
| 1. "Prescribe her a skin patch or chewing gum that delivers a controlled, safe dose of nicotine to manage physical cravings without the harmful chemicals in cigarettes." |
| 2. "Have her imagine taking a deep drag of a cigarette and then immediately imagining a swarm of insects crawling out of the filter and into her throat." |
| 3. "Ask her to keep a daily diary of the exact times and moods when she feels the strongest urge to smoke, and plan alternative habits for those moments." |
| 4. "Use a treatment where she is made to smoke continuously at an extremely rapid pace until she becomes physically sick and disgusted by smoking." |
| 5. "Role-play scenarios with her where a colleague offers her a cigarette outside the office, practicing confident, assertive ways to say 'No'." |
Discuss one or more ways of reducing addiction. Refer to the suggestions in Table 3 in your answer.
48 exam-style questions on AQA A Level Psychology Reducing addiction. Each one has a worked solution and a mark scheme showing where the marks go.