Mindfulness-based Smoking Cessation Enhanced With Mobile Technology

Mindfulness-based Addiction Treatment (MBAT) consists of 8 weekly virtual 2-hour sessions that teach mindfulness and cognitive-behavioral strategies for smoking cessation.

"Patch therapy (beginning quit day) for participants who smoke \>10 cigarettes/day will consist of 4 weeks of 21 mg patches, 2 week of 14 mg patches, and 2 week of 7 mg patches. Patch therapy for participants who smoke less than 10 cigarettes/day will consist of 4 weeks of 14 mg patches and 4 weeks of 7 mg patches.~Lozenge therapy (beginning quit day) for participants who smoke first cigarette within 30 minutes of waking up will consist of 8 weeks of 4mg lozenges. Lozenge therapy (beginning quit day) for participants who smoke first cigarette 30 minutes of more after they wake up will consist of 8 weeks of 2mg lozenges."

"Self-help materials for smoking cessation are based on the Treating Tobacco Use and Dependence Clinical Practice Guideline (Fiore et al., 2008) and include the Clearing the Air booklet developed by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and a referral to the Tobacco Cessation Quitline (1-800-QUIT-NOW)."

iQuit Mindfully involves text messages on each day between treatment sessions. The text messages provide mindfulness and cognitive-behavioral strategies and support for smoking cessation.