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Approach bias retraining to augment smoking cessation: Study protocol for a randomized controlled trial.


ABSTRACT: Heavy users and addicted individuals have shown to develop an approach action tendency - or approach bias - toward stimuli related to the substance of interest. Emerging evidence points to approach bias retraining (ABR) as an effective aid for the treatment of addictive behaviors. The current study seeks to extend this work by testing, in a pilot study, whether standard smoking cessation treatment involving cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) and nicotine replacement therapy can be augmented by ABR. To this end, we will randomly assign 100 adult smokers to either ABR-augmented treatment or placebo-augmented treatment and compare the two conditions on short-term and long-term abstinence rates. The hope is that the findings of this study can inform treatment development for adult smokers.

SUBMITTER: Smits JAJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6406622 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Approach bias retraining to augment smoking cessation: Study protocol for a randomized controlled trial.

Smits Jasper A J JAJ   Baird Scarlett O SO   Rinck Mike M   Rosenfield David D   Beevers Christopher G CG   Brown Richard A RA   Conroy Haley E HE   Alavi Noura N   Dutcher Christina D CD   Freeman Slaton Z SZ  

Contemporary clinical trials communications 20190228


Heavy users and addicted individuals have shown to develop an approach action tendency - or approach bias - toward stimuli related to the substance of interest. Emerging evidence points to approach bias retraining (ABR) as an effective aid for the treatment of addictive behaviors. The current study seeks to extend this work by testing, in a pilot study, whether standard smoking cessation treatment involving cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) and nicotine replacement therapy can be augmented by A  ...[more]

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