Defensive mechanisms such as denial and repression sabotage decisions to quit.

The answer to this statement is true. It is because if a person is having difficulty of quitting to a particular activity, he or she is likely to engage in defensive mechanisms in which is one way of having to make him or her to continue doing what he or she is currently on as defensive mechanisms is a way of helping an individual in warding off the unpleasant feelings or in a way of making the individual to feel good despite of the circumstances.