Ruichong Shuai

2 papers in the library · publishing 2019-2024

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Ultra-Brief Breath Counting (Mindfulness) Training Abolishes Negative Affect-Induced Alcohol Motivation in Hazardous Community Drinkers.

Mindfulness 2024 Alexandra Elissavet Bakou, Lorna Hardy, Ruichong Shuai et al.

Mindfulness therapy improves drinking outcomes arguably by attenuating negative mood-induced drinking, but this mechanism has not been demonstrated in hazardous community drinkers. To address this, three studies tested whether a key ingredient of mindfulness, breath counting, would attenuate the increase in motivation for alcohol produced by experimentally induced negative mood, in hazardous...

DOI: 10.1007/s12671-024-02315-8 Full text Mindfulness Alcohol craving Breath counting Mood induction +1

Ultra-brief breath counting (mindfulness) training promotes recovery from stress-induced alcohol-seeking in student drinkers

Addictive Behaviors October 18, 2019 Ruichong Shuai, A. Bakou, Lorna Hardy et al.

Highlights • Breath counting promoted recovery from stress induced alcohol-seeking.• Breath counting attenuated stress induced changes in subjective negative affect.• Breath counting might treat stress induced relapse.• Mindfulness therapy may work via resilience to negative drinking triggers.

DOI: 10.1016/j.addbeh.2019.106141 Full text