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Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial of Web-Based Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Smoking Cessation
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OBJECTIVE: Web-based smoking cessation interventions have high reach, but low effectiveness. To address this problem, we conducted a pilot randomized controlled trial of the first web-based acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) intervention for smoking cessation. The aims were to determine design feasibility, user receptivity, effect on 30-day point prevalence quit rate at 3 months post-randomization, and mediation by ACT theory-based processes of acceptance. METHODS: Adult participants were recruited nationally into the double-blind randomized controlled pilot trial (N = 222), which compared web-based ACT for smoking cessation (WebQuit.org) with the National Cancer Institute's Smokefree.gov-the U.S. national standard for web-based smoking cessation interventions. RESULTS: We recruited 222 participants in 10 weeks. Participants spent significantly longer on the ACT WebQuit.org site per login (18.98 vs. 10.72 min; p = .001) and were more satisfied with the site (74% vs. 42%; p =.002). Using available follow-up data, more than double the fraction of participants in the ACT WebQuit.org arm had quit smoking at the 3-month follow-up (23% vs. 10%; OR = 3.05; 95% CI = 1.01-9.32; p = .050). Eighty percent of this effect was mediated by ACT theory-based increases in total acceptance of physical, cognitive, and emotional cues to smoke (p < .001). CONCLUSIONS: The trial design was feasible. Compared with Smokefree.gov, ACT had higher user receptivity and short-term cessation, and strong evidence of theory-based mechanisms of change. While results were promising, they were limited by the pilot design (e.g., limited follow-up), and thus a full-scale efficacy trial is now being conducted.
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“For example, RCTs have found ACT to be effective in a web-based self-help format for depression (e.g., Lappalainen et al., 2014), smoking (e.g., Bricker et al., 2013) and chronic pain (e.g., Trompetter et al., 2015).”
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“In addition, there is growing evidence for the efficacy of web-based ACT interventions [6–11].”
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“For mediators of change, the number of studies doing formal mediational analyses of psychological flexibility and mindfulness in web-based ACT interventions is small [7, 30].”
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“Also, Bricker et al. [7] found that acceptance processes mediated the effects on smoking cessation through greater acceptance of physical urges, cognitions, and emotions.”
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“Of the five RCTs of ACT for smoking cessation that Lee et al. [30] analyzed, three were conducted by Bricker et al. [35–37], who have continued to publish in this area since that time [38, 39].”
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“Work by Bricker et al. [53 -56] has demonstrated that ACT interventions in various delivery formats (face-to-face, online, smartphone app, telephone) have led to greater smoking cessation rates than gold-standard cognitive behavioral therapy comparison interventions.”
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A randomized controlled trial of distress tolerance treatment for smoking cessation.
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“The literature is not yet extensive enough to directly compare our DT treatment to related treatments, including ACT-based treatments for general populations of smokers (i.e., not limited to early lapsers; Bricker et al., 2014, 2010, 2013; Gifford et al., 2004, 2011; Hernández-López et al., 2009).”
InfluentialBricker, J. B., Levin, M., Lappalainen, R., Mull, K., Sullivan, B., & Santiago-Torres, M. (2021) · JMIR mHealth and uHealth · doi:10.2196/32847 · Cited by 28
“Eight prior ACT RCTs showed either formal statistical mediation or higher levels of acceptance of internal cues to smoke in the ACT intervention arm [14,15,44-49].”
BackgroundInfluentialSelf-citationKarekla, M., Constantinou, P., Ioannou, M., Gloster, A. T., & Kareklas, I. (2019) · Clinical Psychology in Europe · doi:10.32872/cpe.v1i3.33058 · Cited by 29
Santiago‐Torres, M., Mull, K. E., Sullivan, B. M., Kwon, D. M., Henderson, P. N., Nelson, L. A., Patten, C. A., & Bricker, J. B. (2021) · Nicotine & Tobacco Research · doi:10.1093/ntr/ntab213 · Cited by 29
Self-citationHeffner, J. L., Watson, N. L., Serfozo, E., Kelly, M. M., Reilly, E. D., Kim, D., Baker, K. K., Scout, N., & Karekla, M. (2021) · JMIR Formative Research · doi:10.2196/30241 · Cited by 28
“This included (1) changes in acceptance of smoking triggers (emotional and physical subscales of the adapted Avoidance and Inflexibility Scale [16,17], 18 items), (2) overall psychological flexibility (24-item short version of the Multidimensional Psychological Flexibility Inventory [18], which has 2 composite scores…”
InfluentialSelf-citationKarekla, M., & Savvides, S. N. (2021) · Translational Behavioral Medicine · doi:10.1093/tbm/ibz128 · Cited by 25
Hermann, B. A., Meyer, E. C., Schnurr, P. P., Batten, S. V., & Walser, R. D. (2016) · Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science · doi:10.1016/j.jcbs.2016.07.001 · Cited by 26
Sullivan, M. D., Langford, D. J., Davies, P. S., Tran, C. N., Vilardaga, R., Cheung, G. K., Yoo, D., McReynolds, J., Lober, W. B., Tauben, D. J., et al. (2018) · Journal of Pain · doi:10.1016/j.jpain.2018.03.009 · Cited by 25
Minami, H., Bloom, E., Reed, K. M. P., Hayes, S., & Brown, R. A. (2014) · Psychology of Addictive Behaviors · doi:10.1037/adb0000030 · Cited by 23
Mak, Y. W., Leung, D. Y. P., & Loke, A. Y. (2020) · BMC Public Health · doi:10.1186/s12889-020-09820-0 · Cited by 24
“The increase in psychological flexibility following ACT is clinically meaningful, as previous studies found that increasing psychological flexibility serves as an essential element in smoking cessation treatments [21, 22, 25].”
BackgroundHeffner, J. L., McClure, J. B., Mull, K. E., Anthenelli, R. M., & Bricker, J. B. (2015) · Bipolar Disorders · doi:10.1111/bdi.12300 · Cited by 24
Self-citationHeckman, B. W., Dahne, J., Germeroth, L. J., Mathew, A. R., Ana, E. J. S., Saladin, M. E., & Carpenter, M. J. (2018) · Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology · doi:10.1037/ccp0000338 · Cited by 26
Mak, Y. W., & Loke, A. Y. (2015) · BMC Public Health · doi:10.1186/s12889-015-1485-z · Cited by 22
“As there has been no study that included a brief ACT for smoking cessation in HK, the sample size estimation was taken reference from available ACT studies for smoking cessation [17-20].”
BackgroundMethodDeBeer, B. B., Meyer, E. C., Kimbrel, N. A., Kittel, J. A., Gulliver, S. B., & Morissette, S. B. (2018) · Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior · doi:10.1111/sltb.12388 · Cited by 31
Krotter, A., Diego, G. A., Menéndez, A. G., González‐Roz, A., Secades‐Villa, R., & Pérez, Á. G. (2024) · Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science · doi:10.1016/j.jcbs.2024.100773 · Cited by 31
Santiago‐Torres, M., Mull, K. E., Sullivan, B. M., Kwon, D., Nollen, N. L., Zvolensky, M. J., & Bricker, J. B. (2021) · Addiction · doi:10.1111/add.15721 · Cited by 25
Self-citationRosen, G. M., & Lilienfeld, S. O. (2015) · Journal of Contemporary Psychotherapy · doi:10.1007/s10879-015-9319-y · Cited by 23
“Even ACT researchers have acknowledged this important point, with Bricker et al. (2013) commenting on one of the publications: ‘‘In that study the intervention was supplemented with online support from a therapist, making it difficult to disentangle the effects of the self-guided web program from…”
BackgroundGuildford, B. J., Daly-Eichenhardt, A., Hill, B., Sanderson, K., & McCracken, L. M. (2017) · British Journal of Pain · doi:10.1177/2049463717734016 · Cited by 24
Contextual behavioral science and global mental health: synergies and opportunities
White, R. G., Gregg, J., Batten, S., Hayes, L. L., & Kasujja, R. (2017) · Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science · doi:10.1016/j.jcbs.2017.07.001 · Cited by 22
Han, A., & Kim, T. H. (2022) · Journal of Medical Internet Research · doi:10.2196/39182 · Cited by 20
“%) involved active control groups, including web-based cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) [25], web-based smoking cessation interventions [26,27], web-based discussion forums [44,45,57], web-based mental health education [30], in-person behavioral support [35], web-based expressive writing [48,55],…”
Misra, A., Bryan, A., S. Faber, N., Printz Pereira, D., Faber, S., T. Williams, M., & D. Skinta, M. (2023) · Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science · doi:10.1016/j.jcbs.2023.05.008 · Cited by 21
Mujcic, A., Blankers, M., Boon, B. J. F., Engels, R. C. M. E., & van Laar, M. (2018) · BMC Cancer · doi:10.1186/s12885-018-4206-z · Cited by 19
“Unlike traditional CBT, ACT does not teach methods to avoid or control these triggers, but it focuses on changing one’s relationship with them by allowing them to be present without acting on them [42, 49, 54].”
BackgroundMethodInfluentialBhattacharya, A., Vilardaga, R., Kientz, J. A., & Munson, S. A. (2017) · CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems · doi:10.1145/3025453.3025725 · Cited by 21
“Interventions may be also tailored based on the individual’s willingness to change (MI), Experiential Avoidance (ACT), or stages of change in Transtheoretical model [53].”
MethodInfluentialVilardaga, R., Heffner, J. L., Mercer, L. D., & Bricker, J. B. (2014) · Behaviour Research and Therapy · doi:10.1016/j.brat.2014.07.008 · Cited by 17
Self-citationMartin, E. C., Galloway-Williams, N., Cox, M. G., & Winett, R. A. (2015) · Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science · doi:10.1016/j.jcbs.2015.10.005 · Cited by 19
Why We Are Not Acting to Save Ourselves: ACT, Health, and Culture
Rehfeldt, R. A., & Tyndall, I. T. (2021) · Behavior Analysis in Practice · doi:10.1007/s40617-021-00592-6 · Cited by 16
Acceptance: A Research Overview and Application of This Core ACT Process in ABA
Bordieri, M. J. (2021) · Behavior Analysis in Practice · doi:10.1007/s40617-021-00575-7 · Cited by 16
Mujcic, A., Blankers, M., Boon, B. J. F., Leeuw, I. M. V., Smit, F., van Laar, M., & Engels, R. C. M. E. (2022) · Journal of Medical Internet Research · doi:10.2196/27588 · Cited by 15
“These approaches have been incorporated into effective SC interventions in the general population [22-24].”
InfluentialDanaher, B. G., Severson, H. H., Crowley, R. N., van Meter, N., Tyler, M. S., Widdop, C., Lichtenstein, E., & Ebbert, J. O. (2014) · Internet Interventions · doi:10.1016/j.invent.2014.12.004 · Cited by 15
Olinder, A. L., Fischier, J., Fries, J., Alfonsson, S., Elvingson, V., Eriksson, J. W., & Leksell, J. K. (2015) · BMC Nursing · doi:10.1186/s12912-015-0101-y · Cited by 15
Bricker, J. B., Sullivan, B. M., Mull, K. E., Torres, A. J., & Carpenter, K. (2022) · Nicotine & Tobacco Research · doi:10.1093/ntr/ntac052 · Cited by 13
Self-citationACTonFOOD: opportunities of ACT to address food addiction
Cattivelli, R., Pietrabissa, G., Ceccarini, M., Spatola, C. A. M., Villa, V., Caretti, A., Gatti, A., Manzoni, G. M., & Castelnuovo, G. (2015) · Frontiers in Psychology · doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00396 · Cited by 13
“Recent findings show excellent results in this area (Bricker et al., 2013; Schuck et al., 2014).”
ResultSairanen, E., Lappalainen, R. I., Lappalainen, P., & Hiltunen, A. J. (2019) · Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science · doi:10.1016/j.jcbs.2019.11.010 · Cited by 23
“Previous analyses of mediators in web-based ACT have supported psychological flexibility as a process of change, such as when psychological flexibility was assessed with population-targeted measures with respect to smoking cessation (Bricker et al., 2013) and concerning chronic pain (Trompetter et al.”
BackgroundJuarascio, A. S., Felonis, C. R., Manasse, S. M., Srivastava, P., Boyajian, L. E., Forman, E. M., & Zhang, F. (2020) · International Journal of Eating Disorders · doi:10.1002/eat.23426 · Cited by 16
Metadata
- Authors
- Bricker, J., Wyszynski, C., Comstock, B., & Heffner, J. L.
- Affiliations
- University of Washington (US)
- Fred Hutch Cancer Center (US)
- Venue
- Nicotine & Tobacco Research
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press (OUP)
- Published
- 2013-05-23
- Volume
- 15
- Issue
- 10
- Pages
- 1756-1764
- ISSN
- 1462-2203 (ISSN-L)
- 1469-994X
- PMC
- PMC3768336
- OpenAlex
- W2000457378
- Cited by
- 170
- References
- 49
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2025: 8 · 2024: 3 · 2023: 8 · 2022: 14 · 2021: 11 · 2020: 13 · 2019: 12 · 2018: 18 · 2017: 20 · 2016: 16 · 2015: 28 · 2014: 16 · 2013: 2
- FWCI
- 14.39
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Locations
- Nicotine & Tobacco Research (publishedVersion)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- HighWire Press Open Archive (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institute on Drug Abuse (K23DA026517)
- National Cancer Institute (R01CA166646, P30CA015704)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Smoking Behavior and Cessation
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Epidemiology › Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes
- Keywords
- acceptance and commitment therapy, smoking cessation, online intervention, e-health, quit rates
- MeSH terms
- Double-Blind Method, Female, Humans, Male, Smoking Cessation, Internet
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