Effects of Brief Training on Craving Regulation

"Regulation strategy practice: Participants will be trained to use a CBT-based cognitive regulation strategy. They will be asked to think of their individualized negative consequences for and thing of them when they see the instruction LATER during the task. Participants will practice using this strategy for multiple cigarette stimuli. High-Risk Situation Practice: Participants will identify 10 situations in which they usually smoke, or are likely to smoke in the next 48 hours. For each situation, they will be asked to practice using the strategy and to plan to use this strategy to regulate craving in daily life."

"Each training session in this condition will be identical to the CBT-based training session described, with the exception of the strategy being trained. Specifically, participants will be trained in using the MBT-based strategy (notice craving and accept the feeling without judgment or reaction). To do so, they will be asked to generate their own non- reactive responses to craving (e.g., I can just sit here and notice this. I can ask myself, 'can I be ok with this feeling?') Participants will then be instructed to think of those accepting and non-reactive responses when they see the instruction ACCEPT during the task. All other components will be identical."