Comment #3: However, I'm not saying that distraction techniques are inefficient in the long-term.. I'm positive that for some stutterers breathing techniques (i.e., focusing on breathing which basically addresses our intolerance towards conditioned stimuli) may in some people lead to long-term fluency. Although, I think this long-term fluency wasn't achieved specifically due to the use of distraction. Rather because they had successfully (mostly subconsciously) addressed the approach-avoidance conflict in response to their intolerance toward their own unique condintioned stimuli - I argue. Anyway.. the fact that breathing techniques (like Del Ferro, which I did some time ago) led the stutter group to full fluency for 10-days, tells me that addressing the underlying (un)conditioned stimuli seems to be effective.. but after the 10-days when I finally returned home from the 10-day stutter program, my stutter returned even when I was using the breathing technique. And I know exactly why this is.. it's because I realized subconsciously that I was not ready to speak fluently.. if I would translate this into a value judgement: "I should not speak fluently yet because I feel it's not the right time or because I'm comfortable with my stutter speech or something in that vein" (value judgement stories like these can cover many pages long I think, and thus, the longer we stutter, the more value judgement we learn/develop about our fine-tuning our speech execution)