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. 2005 Winter;38(4):463-7.
doi: 10.1901/jaba.2005.114-04.

Assessing the feasibility of using contingency management to modify cigarette smoking by adolescents

John M Roll  1
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Assessing the feasibility of using contingency management to modify cigarette smoking by adolescents

John M Roll. J Appl Behav Anal. 2005 Winter.

Abstract

Cigarette smoking is a leading cause of preventable death in the United States. Many smokers initiate this dangerous behavior during adolescence. This report describes a contingency management intervention designed to initate and maintain a period of abstinence from cigarettes by adolescent smokers. Results suggest that the intervention was generally successful and that further investigation of this topic is warranted.

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Figure 1. Total percentage of participants who completed the 4-week intervention (upper left), percentage of participants who provided CO samples of <6 ppm for the entire 4-week intervention (upper right), percentage of CO samples <6 ppm provided during the 4-week intervention and at the 1-month follow-up (lower left), and mean CO levels during baseline and intervention weeks (lower right).
* p < .05.
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