UH receives NIDA grant to study transdiagnostic CBT to address tobacco cessation
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, tobacco use continues to be the leading preventable cause of death in the U.S. resulting in more than 440,000 premature deaths a year. An additional 25 million smokers will most likely die of a smoking related illness.
To address this problem and further research in the area, the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) awarded a $675,000 grant to Michael J. Zvolensky, the Hugh Roy and Lillie Cranz Distinguished University Professor in the department of clinical psychology at the University of Houston (UH) and Peter J. Norton, associate professor of psychology at UH. Zvolensky and Norton will serve as co-principal investigators "Augmenting Smoking Cessation with Transdiagnostic Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT) for Smokers with Anxiety," a study that will examine whether a "transdiagnostic" cognitive behavior therapy (CBT), a model that allows therapists to apply one set of principles across anxiety disorders, can improve smoking cessation for anxious smokers.
"Despite interventions like nicotine replacement therapy and national advertising campaigns on the consequences of smoking, people in the smoking cessation and addiction field noticed the rates of tobacco use had stabilized, but the rates of tobacco addiction weren't any different than they were 20 years ago. We had treated all the easy people. Those left were the complicated cases with something else going on," said Zvolensky.
"What we know from our research is that people who smoke often have anxiety and other mental disorders and vice versa. Existing treatment plans for smoking cessation have not addressed anxiety and stress disorders in any formal and meaningful way."
Norton notes one of the biggest problems in helping anxious people quit smoking is that many people smoke cigarettes to calm their anxiety or reduce stress. By combining an evidence-based anxiety disorder treatment and smoking cessation program, Norton and Zvolensky expect to be able to help people quit, and stay quit, by reducing their anxiety, one of the biggest barriers to quitting smoking.
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