Evaluating the Episodic Future Thinking Intervention for Reducing Cigarette Consumption in Cigarette Smokers

Description

This clinical trial evaluates the effectiveness of active episodic future thinking (EFT) stimuli for reducing cigarette consumption in cigarette smokers. EFT is an innovative framing method shown to significantly activate brain regions involved in future thinking, planning, and other executive functions. Active EFT stimuli are positive events, unrelated to smoking, that participants anticipate, look forward to, and can vividly imagine happening up to 1 year in the future. Control EFT stimuli are positive past events, unrelated to smoking, that participants can vividly remember happening in the recent past. Active EFT stimuli may help reduce cigarette consumption among cigarette smokers by exposing them to personally relevant future oriented stimuli.

Conditions

Cigarette Smoking-Related Carcinoma

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Study overview

This clinical trial evaluates the effectiveness of active episodic future thinking (EFT) stimuli for reducing cigarette consumption in cigarette smokers. EFT is an innovative framing method shown to significantly activate brain regions involved in future thinking, planning, and other executive functions. Active EFT stimuli are positive events, unrelated to smoking, that participants anticipate, look forward to, and can vividly imagine happening up to 1 year in the future. Control EFT stimuli are positive past events, unrelated to smoking, that participants can vividly remember happening in the recent past. Active EFT stimuli may help reduce cigarette consumption among cigarette smokers by exposing them to personally relevant future oriented stimuli.

Pilot Study of Episodic Future Thinking Among Cigarette Smokers

Evaluating the Episodic Future Thinking Intervention for Reducing Cigarette Consumption in Cigarette Smokers

Condition
Cigarette Smoking-Related Carcinoma
Intervention / Treatment

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Contacts and Locations

Buffalo

Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Buffalo, New York, United States, 14263

Participation Criteria

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.

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Eligibility Criteria

  • * Smoke \>= 10 cigarettes daily
  • * \>32 on the Vividness of Visual Imagery Questionnaire (VVIQ)
  • * No regular use of other tobacco products
  • * In possession of a smartphone with text messaging capabilities
  • * Willing to quit smoking in the next 30 days
  • * Low socioeconomic status
  • * Veteran of the US armed services
  • * Unable or unwilling to provide verbal consent
  • * Unable or unwilling to provide data to the research team
  • * Current use of nicotine replacement therapy, bupropion, or varenicline
  • * Use of drugs of abuse in the past 30 days
  • * Living in the same household as a participant already enrolled in this study
  • * Unable or unwilling to use nicotine patches

Ages Eligible for Study

18 Years to

Sexes Eligible for Study

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Collaborators and Investigators

Roswell Park Cancer Institute,

Christine Sheffer, PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR, Roswell Park

Study Record Dates

2025-09-01