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One evening, while I was reading a book on habit formation, I came across a reference to a number of experiments conducted by Professor Anton J. Carlson. He was investigating ways to undo old habit forma­tions.

In the classical experiments conducted with dogs by the Russian physiologist, Ivan Petrovich Pavlov, a signal—such as the ringing of a bell—was repeatedly coupled with the presentation of food.

Ordinarily, when you set a dish of food in front of a dog, the dog salivates. Soon, Pavlov learned, he could stimulate this salivation process simply by ringing the bell, without offering food. It became habitual for the dogs to sali­vate when they heard the stimulus of the bell.

Well, said Professor Carlson, let's assume that habit formation requires a stimulus; if so, then the reverse— lack of stimulation—will break the habit. I tried to apply this theory to smoking. It isn't hard to recognize situations that stimulate the desire for a smoke.

In the theatre an actor lights up and inhales— blppp! you want a cigarette, too. You sip your breakfast coffee—blppp! out shoots your hand for matches and cigarette. Your husband says, "Honey, the checkbook doesn't balance"—and blppp! you rush for a cigarette. But how on earth can we avoid such stimuli? Answer: Not even in a spacecraft 700 miles above the earth.

HOW DO WE IGNORE THESE SITUATIONS?

Nevertheless, I continued to think about Professor Carlson's theory. There's something appealing about 'lack of stimulation" to a fellow who's basically lazy. Now I realize that when a psychologist uses a phrase like "lack of stimulation," he's referring to the absence of such things as "conditioned stimulus," "Type-S con­ditioning," "reinforcement," and so on, whereas when I roll such a phrase around in my mind, what I think of is "relaxation." A script editor on the phone, bellowing because an assignment is a wee bit late—that's "stimu­lation." Flat on my back on a sunny beach, away from such grating "stimulants"—that's "relaxation."


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