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Two studies were done in which the subjects applied punishment contingencies to themselves for smoking cigarettes. After Baseline in Experiment I, the subject set a limit of 15 cigarettes for himself. If he exceeded the level, he was to tear a dollar bill into pieces for every additional cigarette he smoked. Every five days the criterion was decreased by one cigarette. After 50 days the subject ceased smoking entirely and had not started to smoke again two years after the study was completed. In Experiment II a teacher decreased her smoking rate by contributing 25 cents to charity for each cigarette she smoked and made further gains when she added the condition of not purchasing cigarettes. When Baseline conditions were reinstated, the smoking rate increased, but again diminished when she used a procedure of not buying cigarettes. One year after the study ended she was smoking only in stressful situations. (Author)

1Boy Crusoe

By Allan Eric

Also published as" A Yankee Crusoe" . A 15 year old hard working and studious farm boy finds the lure of adventure on the seas as a merchant seaman more than he can resist. This is his story. " I was born in a little town in the State of Maine, near the close of the Civil War. My boyhood life did not differ materially from that of the average farmer's son in the remote country districts of New England--except, perhaps, that I read more and thought more. Hard work on the rugged soil, two terms each year in the little yellow country schoolhouse, a day's fishing now and then filled the early years of my life full to over-flowing. " What he gets is enough excitement and adventure to overflow his wildest dreams. How he experiences disaster and uses his wits and knowledge to overcome every problem makes for a great read. - Summary by Phil Chenevert