CNN (9/21, Prior) reports a smartphone app based on the idea that people trying to quit smoking can benefit from acknowledging and accepting their cravings may help stop smoking, according to a study published in JAMA Internal Medicine. Jonathan Bricker of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, the study’s lead author, said, “The problem is that when you try to avoid what you’re feeling and what you’re thinking, you paradoxically create more of what you’re trying to avoid.”
Healio (9/21, Miller) reports that in the study, the iCanQuit smartphone app, which is based on acceptance and commitment therapy, was more effective at helping people quit smoking than NCI’s QuitGuide, a “clinical practice guidelines app based on avoidance of smoking triggers.”
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— “Quitting smoking apps that help you acknowledge your triggers work better, study shows “Ryan Prior, CNN, September 21, 2020