Contingency management for tobacco smoking in methadone-maintained opiate addicts.
Seventeen methadone-maintained cigarette smokers received 4 weeks of contingency management (CM) as a stop-smoking intervention. Results indicated that CM patients significantly reduced breath CO levels from baseline to completion of treatment and that 23.4% of patients maintained 1 week or more of continued smoking abstinence. Results indicated a link between smoking abstinence and reduced cocaine use, although not reduced opiate use, which raised questions about possible shared biological and psychological mechanisms for tobacco and cocaine use.
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Los Angeles Addiction Treatment and Research Center, CA 90025, USA.
Jarvik
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D000328:Adult; D001521:Behavior Therapy; D003042:Cocaine; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008691:Methadone / Q000627:therapeutic use; D009294:Narcotics; D009293:Opioid-Related Disorders / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D012907:Smoking / Q000453:epidemiology; D016540:Smoking Cessation / Q000379:methods*
D009294:Narcotics; D003042:Cocaine; D008691:Methadone