The Use of Compliance Strategies to Get a Person Quit Smoking

Compliance Strategies
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Understanding the importance of persuasion strategies is crucial for any individual. It allows him to have better capabilities to help others change their negative behaviors. In line with this, I would like to provide a brief report on some strategies that could help others improve or address these strategies.
Compliance Techniques
One of the strategies that could be used to change the behavior of a friend who is a heavy smoker is the use of the foot-in-the-door technique. The foot-in-the-door technique provides that asking an individual to agree with a small request would increase the individual’s likelihood of agreeing to a more significant request. In line with this, I could reduce the number of sticks that his friend consumes per day. For example, if your friend is consuming 12 sticks per day, you can ask him to reduce it to a maximum of 11 sticks for one week. After complying with this, I could then ask my friend to reduce his number of sticks by 2 sticks per day for the next week. However, note that one of the problems with this technique is that the individual could treat the initial request with reluctance. In line with this, it would be best to use small rewards or affirmations to elicit a positive response from my friend.
The second strategy that I can use is the low-balling strategy. This strategy initially offers a product or a service at a lower price, and then it would be suddenly increased to increased the customer’s commitment....