Mindfulness Training for Smoking Cessation

Yale University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Cigarette Smoking; Nicotine Dependence; Tobacco Smoking; Smoking Cessation

Treatments: Behavioral: Mindfulness Training; Behavioral: Smoking Cessation Therapy

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01144689

0808004113

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to assess the effects of mindfulness training (MT) compared to standard Smoking Cessation Therapy (SCT) on smoking cessation and stress provocation in individuals trying to quit smoking.

Enrollment: 42 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 60 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

1. Between the ages of 18 and 60
2. Smoking 10 or more cigarettes per day
3. Fewer than 3 months of smoking abstinence in the past year
4. Motivated to stop smoking

Exclusion criteria

1. Current use of psychoactive medications that have not been at a stable dose for the past six months, are used as mood stabilizers, or are used as smoking cessation treatments. Individuals who are on psychoactive medications that are stable, not mood stabilizers, and not used for smoking cessations are excluded from fMRI sessions but not smoking cessation treatment.
2. Use of another investigational drug within 30 days
3. Any serious or unstable disease within 6 months
4. Meets criteria for substance dependence within the past year
5. Left handed (will be excluded from fMRI only)

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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42 participants in 2 patient groups

Mindfulness Training

Experimental group

Treatment:

Behavioral: Mindfulness Training

Smoking Cessation Therapy

Active Comparator group

Treatment:

Behavioral: Smoking Cessation Therapy