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Rostami, Mostafa and Moheban, Fatemeh and Davoudi, Mohammadreza and Heshmati, Khatereh and Taheri, Amir Abbas (2022) Current status and future trends of acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) for smoking cessation: a narrative review with specific attention to technology-based interventions. Addiction & Health, 14, (3), pp. 229-238. doi: 10.34172/ahj.2022.1225.

External website: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC97438...

BACKGROUND: During recent decades, it has become evident that cigarette smoking has led to an increase in cancer, risk of death, and economic problems or sanitation issues worldwide. Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), as a third-wave behavioral therapy, has devoted significant attention to smoking cessation. However, this treatment has been utilized in different formats and protocols. Moreover, addressing its challenges and progress needs examination and integration. Accordingly, the primary aim of this study was to present a narrative review for summarizing and integrating the current data on the effectiveness of ACT on smoking cessation. This study also aimed to investigate the challenges and the future of this field.

METHODS: The publications from January 1, 2010 to October 9, 2021 were identified by searching MEDLINE, Embase, Scopus, PsycINFO, and Web of Science electronic databases. The search was performed with the following keywords: "Acceptance AND Commitment Therapy" OR "Acceptance" AND "smoking" OR "tobacco" OR "cigarette" OR "smoker" OR "Nicotine". The inclusion criterion was studies with interventions aimed at reducing smoking cessation in smokers.

FINDINGS: A total of 17 articles were analyzed in this study. The results showed that this treatment has significant effectiveness in smoking cessation and psychiatric comorbidities. Moreover, the role of experiential avoidance in smoking cessation was discussed in detail.

CONCLUSION: ACT is a suitable psychotherapy module for smoking cessation. However, it needs some upgrades regarding technology. To this end, smartphone applications and AVATAR therapy technologies were discussed with their advantages and solvable disadvantages.


Item Type
Article
Publication Type
International, Open Access, Review, Article
Drug Type
Tobacco / Nicotine
Intervention Type
Drug therapy, Treatment method
Date
July 2022
Identification #
doi: 10.34172/ahj.2022.1225
Page Range
pp. 229-238
Volume
14
Number
3
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