Making Connections in Learning: According to the Feist and Rosenberg text, the best explanation for why people continue their habit of smoking cigarettes is __________.

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Positive reinforcement is the most likely explanation for why people continue to smoke cigarettes. Positive reinforcement is the process of increasing the likelihood of a behavior by providing a positive consequence. In the case of smoking, the positive consequence is the pleasure that the smoker experiences from the nicotine in the cigarette.