Practicing Self-Control Lowers the Risk of Smoking Lapse

University at Albany

Status: Completed

Conditions: Cigarette Smoking; Behavior, Addictive

Treatments: Behavioral: self-control practice

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; NIH

Identifiers

NCT00349687

DA016131

R01DA016131 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)

Details and patient eligibility

About

The proposed study will investigate the role of self-control in smoking cessation and whether interventions that improve self-control can help reduce the risk of lapsing among smokers who wish to quit. Our model predicts that the regular practice of self-control should lead to a building of strength and a general improvement in self-control performance. Hence, smokers who practice self-control prior to quitting should be more likely to succeed in their cessation attempt than smokers who do not practice self-control

Enrollment: 120 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 45 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• smoked at least 10 cigarettes per day for at least two years
• currently smoking

Exclusion criteria

• have at least an 8th grade education level
• have a working touch-tone phone
• report low motivation and efficacy to quit

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: Single Blind