(v. t.) To destroy the force of habit in; to wean from a custom.
Example Sentences:
(1) It was shown, that the rate of disaccustoming was higher for light smokers than for smokers with a high consumption of cigarettes.
(2) The second result was a difference of disaccustoming between light and heavy smokers.
(3) Among rational objective measures we can propose: Increased information of the public and further special education of medical people, especially referring to rational therapy of depression and pain without the use of analgesics, furthermore, rational psychotherapeutic guidance; attempts at more specified and follow-up care of disaccustomed abusers; intensified public relation work in cooperation between medical doctors and politicians.
(4) On the other hand, the number of chronic drinkers admitted for disaccustoming treatment has remained relatively constant during the past several years.
(5) Hundred non-hospitalized smokers with an average consumption of 20 cigarettes per day were treated with an alcoholic extract of Avena sativa for disaccustoming.
(6) The systematic desensibilization to disaccustom to an apparatus once vital to the patient, the psychological-behavior directed approach in the research of depression as well as several conditioning methods for the organization of operant behavior patterns are to be mentioned here.
(7) The first result was a placebo-effect of 35% for disaccustoming of smokers and no statistically significant effect of the extract of Avena sativa.
(8) The group involved 156 patients from I Clinic of Psychiatry, Medical Academy of Lódź, and the Department of Disaccustoming and Psychiatry in Zgierz.
Unaccustomed
Definition:
(a.) Not used; not habituated; unfamiliar; unused; -- which to.
(a.) Not usual; uncommon; strange; new.
Example Sentences:
(1) Instead – plainly bewildering to some commentators – here is unaccustomed unity of purpose.
(2) Case reports illustrate the uniqueness of this perspective and its value in conveying new information to nonradiologist physicians who are unaccustomed to evaluating the numerous images of standard CT scans.
(3) For Hague, basking in unaccustomed praise for his "decisive action" in the Commons, this was the successful conclusion of a piece of unorthodox diplomacy – which subtly avoided the use of gunboats.
(4) Its author, Michael Kimmel , is not unaccustomed to stirring up strong responses.
(5) Eighty naval cadets, unaccustomed to sailing in heavy seas reported during voyages on the high seas, symptoms of seasickness every hour for 4 consecutive hours after ingestion of 1 g of the drug or placebo.
(6) Particularly vulnerable to placebo effect is the very self-sufficient individual with heavy responsibilities who is thrust into the unaccustomed dependency of disabling illness.
(7) Gwynfor's election as the first Plaid Cymru MP gave his party unaccustomed credibility and an enhanced public profile; it also established a pattern under which, when a Labour government was in office, Plaid provided the most threatening opposition in Wales.
(8) Providing the discounts demanded by PPOs thus poses unaccustomed and difficult problems for hospitals.
(9) But the most important thing is that our family has worked through it.” The release of the footage, first published by the celebrity news site TMZ, set off fevered speculation earlier this week among pop fans unaccustomed to hints of conflict in the superstar family.
(10) It is well documented in both animal and human studies that unaccustomed, particularly eccentric, muscle exercise may cause damage of muscle fiber contractile and cytoskeletal components.
(11) It is suggested that these differences were due to both a lack of manual dexterity when writing with the unaccustomed left hand and to the fact that different neurophysiological processes are involved.
(12) Among unaccustomed treatments for low back pain homeopathy matter given by injection has been joined with usual care.
(13) It’s extremely difficult in terms of having to cope with something she’s unaccustomed to,” Veveer said.
(14) Feeding readily fermentable carbohydrates to unaccustomed cattle predisposes to the disease.
(15) The hypoglycemia was not limited to patients in good or excellent metabolic control and often occurred after a single bout of exercise in patients unaccustomed to exercise or in athletic patients who were making the transition from an untrained to a trained state.
(16) These results suggest that the subjects were unaccustomed to RT, but maintained a positive mood state particularly when it was realized that performance capability was unaltered.
(17) The well-documented pattern of elevated serum enzyme activity (ESEA) data after a single bout of unaccustomed exercise can very easily be modeled using a biexponential curve.
(18) Business leaders desperately want to be wooed by Obama; they have spent an unaccustomed time wandering in the political cold as the financial crisis, recession and weak recovery weakened their negotiating position.
(19) Both patients also experienced episodes of increased weakness which could be brought on by unaccustomed activity, going without food or by taking small quantities of alcohol.
(20) The idea was to find a simplified system that any practitioner--even unaccustomed to microcomputing--would be able to use.