Effects of behavioral skills training and schedule of nicotine gum administration on smoking cessation
- 1 January 1989
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Psychiatric Association Publishing in American Journal of Psychiatry
- Vol. 146 (1) , 56-60
- https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.146.1.56
Abstract
Eighty-nine smokers were randomly assigned to four nicotine gum treatments for smoking cessation: behavioral treatment plus a fixed schedule of nicotine gum, behavioral treatment plus and ad lib schedule, education plus a fixed schedule, and education plus an ad lib schedule. The four treatment conditions produced similar rates of abstinence (40.9% to 58.3%) at the end of 11 weeks of treatment. However, at 6-month follow-up, the subjects who had received behavioral treatment had a significantly better abstinence rate (36.7%) than those receiving education (17.5%). Nicotine gum schedule had no effect on treatment outcome.This publication has 1 reference indexed in Scilit:
- Signs and Symptoms of Tobacco WithdrawalArchives of General Psychiatry, 1986