Thank you and great response and great debate material indeed! According to [Koichi](https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Koichi-Mori) (PhD researcher) "*The problem is that we try to consciously control our speech too hard in real time in the presence of others. There is no way we can control every muscle consciously in running speech. We have to let go the concept of controlling your speech if you really want to be fluent. That is,* ***you have to forget stuttering*** *if you want to be fluent.* *It’s just like walking or running: You probably do not try to control which leg should be in front now etc, though you could be aware that one of your leg is in front at a particular moment*" I think, like in the case of some PhD researchers, if you keep dwelling on stuttering after you have reached stuttering remission for many years - then it's possible to stuttering can come back - even if you consciously don't want it. If we forget about all the need for controlling stuttering, the dwelling, etc, then eventually is no need for word substitution, and even if we would then anticipate, it would simply be a neutral afterthought without much emotion behind it, and certainly not enough to affect our stuttering, in my opinion. I don't think that 'forgetting about dwelling on stuttering, or forgetting about controlling speech' implies that we avoid stuttering or that we want to fix stuttering, or that we want to 'add' a technique, rather we are simply unlearning compensatory strategies. The person who recovered from stuttering (and didn't stutter for 20 years) pointed out that it might be efective to not try ti visualize or re-experience or re-immerse in the previous old stutter mindset or stutter state, otherwise we keep dwelling on it and keep finding new ways of coping with and controlling and managing stuttering, I believe