| This study evaluates the effectiveness of a cigarette smoking relapse prevention program based on cognitive and behavioral strategies to cope with the temptation to smoke. Three days following a course of focused smoking treatments (Hackett & Horan, 1978) 56 female subjects were randomly assigned to one of three relapse prevention conditions: a relapse crisis management training (RCMT) program, an attention discussion control (ADC) condition, and a no-treatment (NT) control condition. It was hypothesized that subjects in the RCMT should be smoking significantly fewer cigarettes per day, should have significantly lower levels of alveolar carbon monoxide (COa) than subjects in the ADC and NT conditions at posttest and three month follow-up. Forty-two subjects completed the relapse prevention phase of treatment. Rates of abstinence (COa < 10 ppm) for each treatment condition were not significantly different from one another following the completion of the relapse prevention phase of treatment and at three month follow-up. Subjects in active treatments had significantly lower levels of COa at posttest but not at follow-up than subjects in NT. No differences were found for number of cigarettes smoked per day or for percentage of baseline cigarettes smoked. |
