title: Dispositional Mindfulness Predicts Enhanced Smoking Cessation and Smoking Lapse Recovery.
abstract: Although mindfulness has been hypothesized to promote health behaviors, no research has examined how dispositional mindfulness might influence the process of smoking cessation.
  
  
  
  The current study investigated dispositional mindfulness, smoking abstinence, and recovery from a lapse among African American smokers.
  
  
  
  Participants were 399 African Americans seeking smoking cessation treatment (treatments did not include any components related to mindfulness). Dispositional mindfulness and other psychosocial measures were obtained pre-quit; smoking abstinence was assessed 3, 31 days, and 26 weeks post-quit.
  
  
  
  Individuals higher in dispositional mindfulness were more likely to quit smoking both initially and over time. Moreover, among individuals who had lapsed at day 3, those higher in mindfulness were more likely to recover abstinence by the later time points. The mindfulness-early abstinence association was mediated by lower negative affect, lower expectancies to regulate affect via smoking, and higher perceived social support.
  
  
  
  Results suggest that mindfulness might enhance smoking cessation among African American smokers by operating on mechanisms posited by prominent models of addiction.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychological Science, Georgia College & State University, Milledgeville, GA, USA. whitney.heppner@gcsu.edu.
authors.forename: Whitney L
authors.initials: WL
authors.lastname: Heppner
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, The Catholic University of America, Washington, DC, USA.
authors.forename: Claire Adams
authors.initials: CA
authors.lastname: Spears
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychological, Health, and Learning Sciences, University of Houston, Houston, TX, USA.
authors.forename: Virmarie
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Correa-Fernández
authors.affiliation: School of Social Work, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA.
authors.forename: Yessenia
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Castro
authors.affiliation: Department of Biostatistics, UT MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA.
authors.forename: Yisheng
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Li
authors.affiliation: Department of Experimental Statistics, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, USA.
authors.forename: Beibei
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Guo
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychological, Health, and Learning Sciences, University of Houston, Houston, TX, USA.
authors.forename: Lorraine R
authors.initials: LR
authors.lastname: Reitzel
authors.affiliation: Stephenson Cancer Center and Department of Family & Preventive Medicine, The University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, OK, USA.
authors.forename: Jennifer Irvin
authors.initials: JI
authors.lastname: Vidrine
authors.affiliation: Department of Health Disparities Research, UT MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA.
authors.forename: Carlos A
authors.initials: CA
authors.lastname: Mazas
authors.affiliation: Department of Behavioral Science, UT MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA.
authors.forename: Ludmila
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Cofta-Woerpel
authors.affiliation: Department of Behavioral Science, UT MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA.
authors.forename: Paul M
authors.initials: PM
authors.lastname: Cinciripini
authors.affiliation: Department of Epidemiology, Rutgers School of Public Health, Piscataway, NJ, USA.
authors.forename: Jasjit S
authors.initials: JS
authors.lastname: Ahluwalia
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Rice University, Houston, TX, USA.
authors.forename: David W
authors.initials: DW
authors.lastname: Wetter
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001741:Black or African American / Q000523:psychology*; D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D064866:Mindfulness; D016540:Smoking Cessation / Q000379:methods* / Q000523:psychology*; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: Mindfulness; Smoking cessation; Smoking lapse recovery