Progressive Muscle Relaxation and Cigarette Craving

Chulalongkorn University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Addiction

Treatments: Behavioral: Progressive Muscle Relaxation

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02153775

IRB031/55

Details and patient eligibility

About

Cigarette craving usually occurs with unpleasant feelings, including stress. Progressive Muscle Relaxation (PMR) may reduce level of cigarette craving and/or withdrawal symptoms.

Full description

The study reports on a study investigating the acute effects of a one-time application of progressive muscle relaxation on craving for cigarettes in smokers who were instructed to abstain from cigarettes for 3 hours.

Enrollment: 34 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Age 18 years or more
• Daily cigarette smokers

Exclusion criteria

• Hospitalization
• Participating in cigarette dependency treatment or trying to quit smoking with other methods
• Uncontrolled blood pressure
• Current other substance users (except alcohol)

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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34 participants in 2 patient groups

Progressive muscle relaxation

Experimental group

Description:

Progressive muscle relaxation: single 20-minutes session

Treatment:

Behavioral: Progressive Muscle Relaxation

Reading newspaper of the day

No Intervention group

Description:

Reading newspaper of the day : single 20-minutes session