Finding the Right Match: Mindfulness Training May Potentiate the Therapeutic Effect of Nonjudgment of Inner Experience on Smoking Cessation.

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    • Subject Terms:
      COMPULSIVE behavior; SMOKING & psychology; COGNITIVE therapy; JUDGMENT (Psychology); QUESTIONNAIRES; RESEARCH funding; SMOKING cessation; STATISTICS; TOBACCO; DATA analysis; SECONDARY analysis; RANDOMIZED controlled trials; MINDFULNESS; DESCRIPTIVE statistics
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      Mindfulness training (MT) is an emerging therapeutic modality for addictive disorders. Nonjudgment of inner experience, a component of mindfulness, may influence addiction treatment response. To test whether this component influences smoking cessation, tobacco smokers ( n = 85) in a randomized control trial of MT vs. Freedom from Smoking (FFS), a standard cognitive-behaviorally-oriented treatment, were divided into split-half subgroups based on baseline Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire nonjudgment subscale. Smokers who rarely judge inner experience (nonjudgment > 30.5) smoked less during follow-up when randomized to MT (3.9 cigs/d) vs. FFS (11.1 cigs/d), p < .01. Measuring trait nonjudgment may help personalize treatment assignments, improving outcomes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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