Prize contingency management for smoking cessation: a randomized trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Adjunctive behavioral smoking cessation treatments have the potential to improve outcomes beyond standard care. The present study had two aims: (1) compare standard care (SC) for smoking (four weeks of brief counseling and monitoring) to SC plus prize-based contingency management (CM), involving the chance to earn prizes on days with demonstrated smoking abstinence (carbon monoxide (CO) ≤6 ppm); and (2) compare the relative efficacy of two prize reinforcement schedules-one a traditional CM schedule, and the second an early enhanced CM schedule providing greater reinforcement magnitude in the initial week of treatment but equal overall reinforcement.

Methods

Participants (N=81 nicotine-dependent cigarette smokers) were randomly assigned to one of the three conditio

SUBMITTER: Ledgerwood DM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5020416 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature