Mobile Contingency Management for Smoking Cessation in Returning US Veterans

"Participants will be prescribed one form of nicotine replacement rescue treatment (i.e., gum, lozenge), and may choose nicotine gum as the preferred rescue treatment. Participants will be instructed to use the rescue method as needed during the post-quit phase of the study to reduce cigarette cravings."

Participants will be asked to provide video recordings of themselves taking carbon monoxide readings in order to confirm smoking abstinence. Participants are asked to upload these videos to the study's secured server, and are provided reinforcement for videos that suggest smoking abstinence.

Participants receive five sessions of cognitive-behavioral telephone counseling, and a participant manual. The telephone counseling protocol included in this application is based on standard cognitive-behavioral therapy techniques shown to be efficacious for smoking cessation and is informed by behavioral treatment principles .

Participants will be prescribed nicotine patches to be used during the post-quit phase of the study.

"Participants will be prescribed one form of nicotine replacement rescue treatment (i.e., gum, lozenge), and may choose nicotine lozenge as the preferred rescue treatment. Participants will be instructed to use the rescue method as needed during the post-quit phase of the study to reduce cigarette cravings."

Participants in the experimental condition will be loaned a smart phone to use during the mobile contingency management intervention period. The phone will be used to record videos of carbon monoxide readings to determine smoking abstinence.

Participants in the experimental condition will be loaned a CO monitor to use during the mobile contingency management intervention period. The monitor will be used to determine carbon monoxide content in the breath as a measurement of smoking.