I was able to achieve fluency later in life. I received proper speech therapy and have a full understanding of the importance of breath support. My opinion, gained from my personal experiences, is that suggesting these cheater sounds will do more of a disservice to people in the long term. I think it's semantics with regards to whether you're talking about block modification or avoidance. You missed the point of what I was saying. The suggestions that you're making did work for me short-term. Until my stutter, my speech, my brain, adapted and Incorporated these flawed strategies into my flawed speech. When people ask me how I got fluent, I tell them it was through speech therapy. When they press me and ask what techniques I use, I am reluctant to give out speech therapy tips. Because I believe that the program I went through required the therapist. Someone to help me progress through learning fluent speech. Someone to identify when I was going astray. Someone to help me step back two levels, and start forward again from a stable level in my fluency program. I don't believe techniques or block modification are a winning strategy as a way to achieve fluency. Techniques are involved in achieving fluency, but they are components of a larger program. When I learned fluency it had nothing to do with block management. It was learning to speak without the blocks. I was concurrently learning to speak without blocks while still being dysfluent in my everyday life. You could make the analogy of learning to speak a second language while still speaking your primary. My primary language was disfluency. While I used that primary language in everyday life, I was learning a second language of fluent speech. Only when I had mastered that second language, did I start using it in everyday life. And abandoned my first language. How long have you employed the strategies that you suggesting to others?