--- Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Mar 19, 2005, at 1:37 AM, Bob Brigante wrote: > > > 100%, or nearly so, of the TMers monitored in the > scientific studies > > quoted who quit smoking did so because of the > stress relief they > > experienced from TM, not from other stop-smoking > programs (they would > > not have been allowed in the studies if they were > participating in > > some stop-smoking program other than their > practice of TM). > > Therefore, when I said above that "Regarding your > claim that TMers > > need more than TM to quit smoking, that is not > what research > > indicates," this is a true statement -- people in > the studies who > > quit smoking did so only because of TM. > > But it's quite well known that TM research is pretty > shoddy, or even > bogus.
Some of the research is okay, some is, as you say, shoddy. What Bob mentions above though is something that you can not conclude from a statistical study. Why people say they do something is completely irrelevant. All you can conclude is that there was a statistically significant "quitting rate" among the TM practice group. You can hypothesis that it was due to increased stress relief due to the TM practice, but this must be further researched to come to this conclusion. > > > > To subscribe, send a message to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Or go to: > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ > and click 'Join This Group!' > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new resources site! http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/resources/ To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
