QUESTION TEXT: Because quitting smoking is very stressful and…
QUESTION TYPE: Strengthen – Exception
CONCLUSION: It might be easier to quit smoking if you replace it with a healthy activity.
REASONING: Quitting smoking is stressful, and you gain weight.
Two groups were sent to a quit-smoking course. Half of the group was also sent to aerobics classes. 40% of the aerobics group quit, while none of the other group did.
ANALYSIS: This is already a decent argument. We can strengthen it by showing that the study was properly conducted, and that the effects lasted a long time.
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- Quitting smoking can make you gain weight. This answer shows that aerobics can eliminate that factor and make it easier to quit.
- This shows the sample size was large and random. That helps show a study’s results are valid.
- CORRECT. We don’t care about non-smokers, and we don’t care much about weight gain when non-smokers stop exercising. The argument recommended that smokers do exercise – it didn’t recommend that they start and then stop.
- Stress was one of the two factors that made it hard to quit smoking. This shows that exercise can make it easier to quit by reducing stress.
- 40% of those in the second group had stopped smoking after the study, and 38% of the group were still non-smokers after a year. That’s impressive, and shows the effects of exercise were long lasting.
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