At first it just helped me to get out of blocks, but overtime the blocks started to happen less and less. I've been staying home so I haven't been talking in public much. Before I started doing this I would stutter just as much with my family as I did in public, and now I almost never stutter/block when talking to my family. So sometimes in conversations I have slight pauses (block/me doing the technique), but overall the conversation is much smoother.