Implementation intentions: Can they be used to prevent and treat addiction?

Handbook of Implicit Cognition and Addiction

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 455-476

  Prestwich, Andrew ^a   Conner, Mark ^b   Lawton, Rebecca J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.4135/9781412976237.n29     Document Type: Chapter

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