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Show sBad Habits Can Be Cured Says Authority Science has finally learned how to help you conquer your bad habits. Whether your particular bad habit is smoking or drinking to excess or merely biting your nails, science has found how you can overcome it, according to an article in the April issue of Cosmopolitan Cos-mopolitan magazine. And sheer will power isn't the answer, according to the savants who have found that a habit broken by will power waits like a coiled spring, ready to pop up again whenever your rigid control is relaxed. "One of the most intensive studies of habit has been made by psychologist Knight Dtmlap," the article states. "At the University of California -he has established a 'Habit Clinic' "From his years of experience, Dunlap worked out this four-point program for reforming a habit. (1) You must form a clear picture pic-ture of the idealr esult. (2) You must honestly want to achieve this ideal. (3) You must develop the capacity to change. (4) You must be willing to accept a partial success, suc-cess, and then us this approximation approxima-tion as a new base for further attempts at reformation." |