Quitting Addiction: Bandura's Social Cognitive Theory

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Addiction is such a hard disease to beat, especially addiction quitting, this has been a big problem throughout the United States. Bandura’s social cognitive theory on addiction was referred to Reza Hospital for addiction. They done testing on 60 people, 30 people in test groups and 30 people in control group. They based it on Bandura’s social cognitive theory, on the test group and control group for 1 month after they were admitted. After 1 month the test group was more successful than the control group with quitting addiction. It showed there was a big difference in the two groups, when staying sober. The test group succeeded better than the control group. Bandura’s social cognitive theory worked for addiction, thus it was recommended to

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