Test of daily app-based mindfulness meditation preceding a planned smoking quit attempt date on abstinence: Protocol for a randomized controlled trial recruiting across the 58 counties of California.
David S Black, Matthew G. Kirkpatrick
Contemporary Clinical Trials September 2022 DOI: 10.1016/j.cct.2022.106855 (opens in new tab)
Study at a glance
AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Randomized controlled trial (study protocol) Peer reviewed |
|---|---|
| Population | People who currently smoke cigarettes and are willing to make a voluntary quit attempt on a selected near-term date, recruited from all 58 counties in California |
| Intervention | psychoeducation control |
| Dose | two times a day in 10-min segments for 14 sequential days for a total of 280 min |
| Duration | 14 days preceding a planned quit date; follow-up period not stated |
| Topics | Addiction Meditation |
| Keywords | Cessation Nct05440903 Quit attempt Smoking |
| Key findings | The protocol proposes testing whether an app-based mindfulness intervention outperforms a time-matched psychoeducation control in increasing smoking abstinence during a scheduled quit attempt. The authors hypothesize that daily mindfulness meditation practice before quitting will build non-reactivity to cravings and provide a replacement behavior for smoking. |
Abstract
A majority of the 34 million people who currently smoke cigarettes report wanting to quit smoking yet most attempts to quit end in relapse. A mindfulness based intervention (MBI) is an intervention package used to reinforce an individual's practice of mindfulness meditation in daily life. MBIs delivered by phone app offer daily prompts to guide bouts of mindfulness meditation, that is, sustained attention to moment-by-moment experience without behavior reactivity. Daily bouts of mindfulness meditation offer individuals a replacement behavior for smoking during a quit attempt, and MBI app instruction aims to increase an individual's skill in non-reactivity when they experience cravings. Our study objective is to test the effect of an app-based MBI on abstinence during a scheduled quit attempt among people who currently smoke and who are willing to make a voluntary quit attempt on a selected near-term date. Our delivery of a smartphone app-based MBI occurs daily for the two weeks preceding a planned quit date. Study participants are randomized to an app-based MBI or psychoeducation control group and asked to self-administer their intervention two times a day in 10-min segments for 14 sequential days for a total of 280 min. This preparatory period capitalizes on time to help participants orient toward a near-term goal to quit smoking, practice mindfulness meditation, and increase the skill of non-reactivity during states of craving to smoke. We recruit people who smoke cigarettes from all 58 counties in California. We test the hypothesis that an app-based MBI will outperform a time-matched psychoeducation control on increasing smoking abstinence. Findings contribute knowledge to the addictions treatment field about whether MBIs delivered by app can increase smoking cessation in a geographically-diverse sample.
Comparable studies
Other randomized controlled trials on meditation, most cited first.
| Study | Year | Design | Participants |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alterations in Brain and Immune Function Produced by Mindfulness Meditation Healthy employees in a work environment | 2003 | Randomized controlled trial | n = 41 |
| Prevention of relapse/recurrence in major depression by mindfulness-based cognitive therapy. Recovered recurrently depressed patients | 2000 | Randomized controlled trial | n = 145 |
| Open hearts build lives: Positive emotions, induced through loving-kindness meditation, build consequential personal resources. Working adults | 2008 | Randomized controlled trial | n = 139 |
| Short-term meditation training improves attention and self-regulation Undergraduate Chinese students | 2007 | Randomized controlled trial | n = 40 |
| Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for Depression: Replication and Exploration of Differential Relapse Prevention Effects. Recovered recurrently depressed patients | 2004 | Randomized controlled trial | n = 73 |
Citations in the library
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- Effects of a brief mindfulness-meditation intervention on neural measures of response inhibition in cigarette smokers. PLoS One 2018
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