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EFFECTS OF INTERNET‐BASED VOUCHER REINFORCEMENT AND A TRANSDERMAL NICOTINE PATCH ON CIGARETTE SMOKING
Author(s) -
Glenn Irene M.,
Dallery Jesse
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
journal of applied behavior analysis
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.1
H-Index - 76
eISSN - 1938-3703
pISSN - 0021-8855
DOI - 10.1901/jaba.2007.40-1
Subject(s) - voucher , nicotine , smoking cessation , abstinence , transdermal patch , nicotine patch , psychology , medicine , anesthesia , transdermal , psychiatry , pharmacology , alternative medicine , accounting , pathology , business , placebo
Nicotine replacement products are commonly used to promote smoking cessation, but alternative and complementary methods may increase cessation rates. The current experiment compared the short‐term effects of a transdermal nicotine patch to voucher‐based reinforcement of smoking abstinence on cigarette smoking. Fourteen heavy smokers (7 men and 7 women) completed the four 5‐day phases of the study: baseline, patch treatment, voucher treatment, and return to baseline. The order of the two treatment phases was counterbalanced across participants. In the patch treatment condition, participants wore a 14‐mg transdermal nicotine patch every day. In the voucher treatment condition, participants received vouchers contingent on abstinence from smoking, defined as producing carbon monoxide (CO) readings of ≤4 parts per million. Participants e‐mailed two video clips per day showing them breathing into a CO monitor and the resulting CO reading to clinic staff. In the voucher treatment, 24% of samples were negative, and 5% of samples were negative in the patch treatment. Results suggest that contingent vouchers were more effective than transdermal nicotine patches in promoting abstinence.