title: Contingency management in the 21st century: technological innovations to promote smoking cessation.
abstract: Information technology represents an excellent medium to deliver contingencies of reinforcement to change behavior. Recently, we have linked the Internet with a science-based, behavioral treatment for cigarette smoking: abstinence reinforcement therapy. Under abstinence reinforcement interventions, incentives are provided for objective evidence of abstinence. Several studies suggest that the intervention is effective in initiating abstinence. The intervention addresses limitations (access, cost, sustainability, and dissemination potential) inherent in traditional abstinence reinforcement delivery models. It can also be applied to vulnerable, at-risk populations, and to other behavior to promote health. Information technologies offer unprecedented and rapidly expanding opportunities to facilitate behavior change.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA. dallery@ufl.edu
authors.forename: Jesse
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Dallery
authors.forename: Bethany R
authors.initials: BR
authors.lastname: Raiff
mesh_terms: D001521:Behavior Therapy / Q000191:economics / Q000379:methods*; D001944:Breath Tests / Q000295:instrumentation; D002248:Carbon Monoxide / Q000032:analysis; D016287:Computer Peripherals; D006297:Health Services Accessibility; D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet; D008491:Medical Informatics Applications; D016730:Program Development; D016032:Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic; D019114:Remote Consultation / Q000379:methods; D016540:Smoking Cessation / Q000379:methods*; D014584:User-Computer Interface
chemical_list: D002248:Carbon Monoxide