Word: folkenberg
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Spartan Regime. From Seattle to New England, the Rev. Elman J. Folkenberg and Dr. J. Wayne McFarland have brought their weed-killing message to throngs of dry-throated smokers. Their approach is simple. "We consider smoking an intense neurophysical habit plus straight addiction," says Dr. McFarland. "So it has both physiological and psychological components. We deal with both...
They form penitents into groups of 25. And they install the buddy system: everyone who signs up gets the phone number of one other member, and pledges himself to check daily on his buddy's progress. Folkenberg gets smokers to repeat-in unison at meetings, and countless times a day-"I choose to give up smoking," as evidence that they are exercising their will power...
Never an S.A. Folkenberg and McFarland are already training other teachers in their methods. But there will never be an organization known as S.A. Once a smoker has shaken his habit, he is not about to remain anonymous. He is only too willing to tell the nicotine-stained how, through will power, he gave up the weed...
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