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- Title
A Randomized Pilot Study of Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy Versus Basic Health Education for Smoking Cessation Among Cancer Patients.
- Authors
Schnoll, Robert A.; Rothman, Randi L.; Wielt, Dustin B.; Lerman, Caryn; Pedri, Holly; Wang, Hao; Babb, James; Miller, Suzanne M.; Movsas, Benjamin; Sherman, Eric; Ridge, John A.; Unger, Michael; Langer, Corey; Goldberg, Melvyn; Scott, Walter; Cheng, Jonathan
- Abstract
Background Previously, we have linked theoretically based cognitive and emotional variables to the ability of cancer patients to quit smoking. Purpose: In this study, we evaluated the impact of cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT), which addressed these theoretically derived cognitive and emotional variables linked to tobacco use in this population, for promoting smoking cessation in a sample of cancer patients and assessed longitudinal predictors of smoking cessation. Methods: Cancer patients (N = 109) were randomized to either the theoretically based CBT intervention or to a general health education (GHE) condition, and all patients received nicotine replacement therapy. Results: Contrary to our expectation, no significant difference in 30-day point-prevalence abstinence between the CBT and GHE conditions was detected at either a 1-month (44.9% vs. 47.3%, respectively) or 3-month (43.2% vs. 39.2%, respectively) follow-up evaluation. Higher quit motivation and lower cons of quitting were related to smoking cessation. Conclusions: Implications for the implementation of smoking cessation behavioral treatments in the oncologic context are discussed, as are directions for future research in this area.
- Subjects
BEHAVIOR therapy; HEALTH education; SMOKING cessation; NICOTINE addiction treatment; CANCER patients; NICOTINE
- Publication
Annals of Behavioral Medicine, 2005, Vol 30, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
0883-6612
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1207/s15324796abm3001_1