Cognitive defusion versus experiential avoidance in the reduction of smoking behaviour: an experimental and preliminary investigation

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2018-01-01

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Hooper, Nic
Dack, Charlotte
Karekla, Maria
Niyazi, Asli
McHugh, Louise

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Background: Brief procedures that reduce smoking behaviour may be useful in reaching the many people that do not seek help for smoking addiction.Objectives: The current study aimed to determine if one component of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), cognitive defusion, could be useful in reducing smoking behaviour in a sample of students.Methods: The study employed a between-subjects three-arm design. For one week, participants were asked to reduce their cigarette consumption. To aid them in their reduction, participants were randomly allocated to one of three conditions: the first received a defusion procedure, the second received an experiential avoidance procedure and a control condition received no procedure. For a second week, the instruction to reduce cigarette consumption was lifted. During both weeks participants were required to monitor their smoking behaviour via a tally diary system.Results: The defusion condition smoked significantly less than the control condition during week one and significantly less than the control and experiential avoidance conditions during week two.Conclusion: Results are discussed in terms of the potential utility of defusion in this domain, and the limitations of this preliminary research that would need to be addressed in future investigations.

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Acceptance and commitment therapy, Smoking behaviour, Experiential avoidance, Defusion

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/68186

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ADDICTION RESEARCH & THEORY

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https://doi.org/10.1080/16066359.2018.1434156

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N. Hooper, C. Dack, M. Karekla, A. Niyazi, and L. McHugh, “Cognitive defusion versus experiential avoidance in the reduction of smoking behaviour: an experimental and preliminary investigation,” ADDICTION RESEARCH & THEORY, pp. 414–420, 2018, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/68186.