title: Nicotine fading and smokeholding methods to smoking cessation.
abstract: We tested a multicomponent behavioural package to stop smoking that contained nicotine fading and smokeholding techniques. 73 smokers were randomly assigned to one of five treatment programmes: (1) nicotine fading and cigarette fading, (2) nicotine fading and concurrent smokeholding, (3) nicotine fading and subsequent smokeholding, (4) a nonintensive smokeholding programme, and (5) an intensive smokeholding programme (daily sessions). Common components of the programmes were self-monitoring, information on smoking, stimulus control, CO feedback, and strategies to avoid withdrawal symptoms. Each treatment was carried out during a total of 10 sessions over 4 weeks (Treatments 1-4) or 2 weeks (Treatment 5). End-of-treatment quit rates ranged from 85% to 91%. At 12-mo. follow-up, the most effective package proved to have been nicotine fading and cigarette fading, with an abstinence rate of 57% as against 25 to 37% for the other treatments.
authors.affiliation: University of Santiago de Compostela, Facultad de Psicología, Departamento de Psicología Clínica y Psicobiología, Galicia, Spain.
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Becoña
authors.forename: M P
authors.initials: MP
authors.lastname: García
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001521:Behavior Therapy; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D016540:Smoking Cessation; D014029:Tobacco Use Disorder / Q000628:therapy*