Behavioral Maintenance Treatment for Smoking Cessation

At each clinic session, staff met with participants individually for 30 minutes to develop cognitive and behavioral skills to resist urges to smoke. Staff used self-efficacy questionnaires to assess participants' confidence in their abilities to resist urges to smoke in specific situations and behavioral worksheets to help participants articulate treatment plans to be used in managing their behavior in these situations without smoking. Those participants randomized to extended CBT continued to work with treatment staff individually on the development and use of cognitive and behavioral cessation and relapse prevention skills. Treatment sessions, lasting approximately 30 minutes, were conducted at the San Jose clinic site at weeks 8, 12, 16 and 20.