Forced smoking abstinence: not enough for smoking cessation.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Millions of Americans are forced to quit smoking as they enter tobacco-free prisons and jails, but most return to smoking within days of release. Interventions are needed to sustain tobacco abstinence after release from incarceration.

Objective

To evaluate the extent to which the WISE intervention (Working Inside for Smoking Elimination), based on motivational interviewing (MI) and cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), decreases relapse to smoking after release from a smoke-free prison.

Design

Participants were recruited approximately 8 weeks prior to their release from a smoke-free prison and randomized to 6 weekly sessions of either education videos (control) or the WISE intervention.

Setting

A tobacco-free prison in the United States.

Participant

SUBMITTER: Clarke JG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4438989 | biostudies-literature | 2013 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature