A Future Thinking Intervention for Comorbid Tobacco Use Disorder and Bipolar Disorder

The Future Self group will attend 6 virtual sessions during which they will be encouraged to vividly generate personal and positive future events that they anticipate may be benefited by smoking cessation. All participants will complete the adjusting amount discounting task. All participants will also receive brief, CBT-based smoking cessation counseling. This group will involve one follow-up session one month after the sixth session. Each session will be conducted on HIPAA-compliant Zoom and led by the PI, Dr. Gold.

The Daily Check-Ins (DCI) group will attend 6 virtual sessions during which they will complete the adjusting amount discounting task and receive brief, CBT-based smoking cessation counseling (consistent with counseling received by Future Self-BD). This group will involve one follow-up session one month after the sixth session. Each session will be conducted on HIPAA-compliant Zoom and led by the PI, Dr. Gold.