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Retraining automatic action tendencies for smoking using mobile phone-based approach-avoidance bias training

Not Applicable
Completed
Conditions
Mental and Behavioural Disorders
icotine addiction
Mental and behavioural disorders due to use of tobacco
Registration Number
ISRCTN15690771
Lead Sponsor
niversity of Siegen
Brief Summary

2019 protocol in https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31831080/ (added 09/12/2020)

Detailed Description

Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
Completed
Sex
All
Target Recruitment
100
Inclusion Criteria

Smokers are included if they had smoked for at least six months at least six cigarettes per day, are active smokers at study entry and are motivated to quit smoking.

Exclusion Criteria

Exclusion criteria are current alcohol or drug misuse or dependency, psychiatric illness, insufficient German language skills or uncorrected visual or auditory impairment.

Study & Design

Study Type
Interventional
Study Design
Not specified
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
<br> Measured at baseline, post-training and at a 4-week follow-up:<br> 1. Approach bias measured by the assessment version of the Approach-Avoidance Task<br> 2. Self-reported nicotine consumption measured via a questionnaire<br> follow-up. In addition, participants will be instructed to log smoked cigarettes when smoking by using a smartphone-based cigarette-tracking app. The logging period will cover 6 weeks, which is the study duration for each participant<br> 3. Abstinence from smoking determined through self-report and biochemically-verified expired CO (Smokerlyzer)<br>
Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
<br> Measured at baseline, post-training and at a 4-week follow-up:<br> 1. Cognitive biases measured by a visual dot-probe task and the Implicit Association Task<br> 2. Smoking behavior assessed using Fagerström Test for Nicotine Dependence (FTND; Heatherton et al., 1991)<br> 3. Motivation to stop smoking assessed using Stages of Change Scale; Prochaska et al., 1991; Thoughts About Abstinence Scale; Hall et al., 1990<br> 4. Cigarette craving assessed using single item craving rating ranging from: 0 = not at all, to 5 = very much<br> 5. Explicit attitudes toward smoking assessed using semantic differential based on Swanson et al., 2001<br>
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