Shaping smoking cessation using percentile schedules

Behavioral interventions that provide incentives contingent upon abstinence are effective addiction treatments. Nevertheless, these treatments often fail for individuals whose recent behaviors are very different from those reinforced. These hard-to-treat individuals may require shaping to achieve ab...

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Published in:Drug and alcohol dependence 2004-12, Vol.76 (3), p.247-259
Main Authors: Lamb, R.J., Morral, Andrew R., Kirby, Kimberly C., Iguchi, M.Y., Galbicka, G.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Addictive behaviors
Adult
Adult and adolescent clinical studies
Aged
Analysis of Variance
Appointments and Schedules
Behavior Therapy - methods
Biological and medical sciences
Breath Tests - methods
Cessation
Chi-Square Distribution
Contingency contracts
Contingency management
Female
Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology
Humans
Male
Medical sciences
Middle Aged
Percentile schedules
Psychoanalysis
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychopathology. Psychiatry
Reinforcement Schedule
Shaping
Smoking
Smoking - psychology
Smoking - therapy
Smoking cessation
Smoking Cessation - methods
Smoking Cessation - psychology
Tobacco, tobacco smoking
Toxicology
USA
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Summary:Behavioral interventions that provide incentives contingent upon abstinence are effective addiction treatments. Nevertheless, these treatments often fail for individuals whose recent behaviors are very different from those reinforced. These hard-to-treat individuals may require shaping to achieve abstinence. We used percentile schedules to shape smokers’ delivery of breath samples indicative of recent smoking abstinence (breath carbon monoxide (BCO)
ISSN:0376-8716
1879-0046
DOI:10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2004.05.008