Dispositional Mindfulness Predicts Enhanced Smoking Cessation and Smoking Lapse Recovery

Overview

Journal Ann Behav Med

Publisher Oxford University Press

Specialty Social Sciences

Date 2016 Jan 9

PMID 26743533

Citations 19

Authors

Whitney L Heppner

Claire Adams Spears

Virmarie Correa-Fernandez

Yessenia Castro

Yisheng Li

Beibei Guo

Lorraine R Reitzel

Jennifer Irvin Vidrine

Carlos A Mazas

Ludmila Cofta-Woerpel

Paul M Cinciripini

Jasjit S Ahluwalia

David W Wetter

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Abstract

Background: Although mindfulness has been hypothesized to promote health behaviors, no research has examined how dispositional mindfulness might influence the process of smoking cessation.

Purpose: The current study investigated dispositional mindfulness, smoking abstinence, and recovery from a lapse among African American smokers.

Methods: Participants were 399 African Americans seeking smoking cessation treatment (treatments did not include any components related to mindfulness). Dispositional mindfulness and other psychosocial measures were obtained pre-quit; smoking abstinence was assessed 3, 31 days, and 26 weeks post-quit.

Results: Individuals higher in dispositional mindfulness were more likely to quit smoking both initially and over time. Moreover, among individuals who had lapsed at day 3, those higher in mindfulness were more likely to recover abstinence by the later time points. The mindfulness-early abstinence association was mediated by lower negative affect, lower expectancies to regulate affect via smoking, and higher perceived social support.

Conclusions: Results suggest that mindfulness might enhance smoking cessation among African American smokers by operating on mechanisms posited by prominent models of addiction.

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