Consonant addicts

In effect, hyperbolic discounters with only a little amount of willpower (N < 11) will not be able to quit their addiction, and if they have been abstaining for a while, they will quickly relapse to addiction. Hence, unless they are able to cultivate their willpower, they will continue their self-destructive lifestyle. These people are consonant addicts (Skog 1999) They are unable to quit and really do not wish to quit, as they consider life without the addictive substance to be even worse than life as a heavy consumer. 

This implies that dissonant addicts with hyperbolic discounting plus willpower may go to bed with the firm intention of not drinking tomorrow nevertheless, they will end up drinking again the next day. Even consonant addicts may occasionally experience doubts as to whether they really wish to go on with their heavy-consumption lifestyle. Thus, the distinction between consonant and dissonant addicts is not as clear-cut within the Ainsliean framework as within the dynamically consistent framework of the rational consumer. 

Eiser, Richard, Stephen Sutton, and Mallory Weber. 1978. " Consonant and Dissonant Smokers and the Self-Attribution of Addiction." Addictive Behaviors 3 99-106. 

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