Poster Presentation

Operant Conditioning and Smoking Cessation

Brett Jaycox

Introduction Drexel University Components of Operant Conditioning
• Tobacco use remains the single largest preventable
View of Essence of Theory
cause of death in the US killing more than 480,000 Learning
Americans each year (CDC 2017). Process Behavior change occurs as a result of an individual’s
• Despite increases in knowledge and research in recent response to an event (stimuli) in one’s external
years, studies show that 23.5 percent of the US environment. When a behavior is rewarded, the
population continue to smoke (Mallin, 2002). individual will continue to give the desired response
• B.F. Skinner’s Theory of Operant Conditioning and ((Kearsely n.d.)
Behaviorism will be used to develop an education plan
for smoking cessation Locus of Involve the learner in educational practice by allowing

Operant Conditioning and Behaviorism Learning the learner to select positive and negative

• Changes in behavior are the result of an individual's Purpose of reinforcements McLeod, S. A. (2015). Skinner - Operant
response to events, (stimuli), that occur in the To shape the learners behavior using both positive Conditioning.
environment (Kearsley n.d.).
Education and negative reinforcements in order to achieve Conclusion
• According to Skinner’s work, when a desired behavior is smoking cessation
immediately rewarded, the individual will be conditioned S• mUoskinigngtheCoeustlsinaetdioenducational plan, the learner, with
to give the desired response. Educator’s Create an environment thAapt pallloicwastifoornleaornf eTrhseupoproyrtto
Role in the help of the educator will use both positive and
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elicit the desired behavior change. Process creating Quit Plan and Setting QupitraDcatitcee in various environments and settings, which

Nature of Learner Manifestations Discussion, feedback, an• d mEdauinctaetnoarnacsesesusspepsorltearners abilitayntdo ihsannedclesnsiacroytinfoer sustainable learning and behavior
in Adult
• Up to 85 percent of smokers would like to quit smoking Education withdrawal symptoms: adjust reincfohracnegmee(nMtsatollinel2ic0it0t2h)e
but factors such as social pressure, stress, withdrawal, desired response (not smoking• a Lceigaarrneettre)involvement in the selection of positive and
and relapse are barriers to cessation (Gallop, 2013).
• Help learner identify areas of socinael gsautpivpeorrteainnfdorcements leads to increased probability
• Only 7.9 percent on smokers are able to stop smoking boundaries to program completionthat a learner will display the desired behavior (Merriam
without the use of a smoking cessation our
supplemental education, highlighting the need of and Caffarella, 1991)
smoking cessation education (Mallin 2002) • Reiterate importance of continual and timely

• Learner will be smoker who will be identified after reinforcement
completing the CAGE Questionnaire, as having an
addiction to nicotine. • Final Program Assessment, smoking cessation, learner
References
• Learners within the program are adult smokers who feedback
agree to the smoking cessation program.
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