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Mindful attention reduces neural and self-reported cue-induced craving in smokers

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Westbrook, Cecilia, Creswell, John David, Tabibnia, Golnaz, Julson, Erica, Kober, Hedy, Tindle, Hilary A.·2013·Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

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An emerging body of research suggests that mindfulness-based interventions may be beneficial for smoking cessation and the treatment of other addictive disorders. One way that mindfulness may facilitate smoking cessation is through the reduction of craving to smoking cues. The present work considers whether mindful attention can reduce self-reported and neural markers of cue-induced craving in treatment seeking smokers. Forty-seven (n = 47) meditation-naïve treatment-seeking smokers (12-h abstinent from smoking) viewed and made ratings of smoking and neutral images while undergoing functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). Participants were trained and instructed to view these images passively or with mindful attention. Results indicated that mindful attention reduced self-reported craving to smoking images, and reduced neural activity in a craving-related region of subgenual anterior cingulate cortex (sgACC). Moreover, a psychophysiological interaction analysis revealed that mindful attention reduced functional connectivity between sgACC and other craving-related regions compared to passively viewing smoking images, suggesting that mindfulness may decouple craving neurocircuitry when viewing smoking cues. These results provide an initial indication that mindful attention may describe a 'bottom-up' attention to one's present moment experience in ways that can help reduce subjective and neural reactivity to smoking cues in smokers.

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Authors
Westbrook, C., Creswell, J. D., Tabibnia, G., Julson, E., Kober, H., & Tindle, H. A.
Affiliations
  • University of Wisconsin–Madison (US)
  • University of Wisconsin, School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, Wisconsin, USA, 2Department of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, 3Department of Psychiatry, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA, and 4University of Pittsburgh, Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Venue
Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience
Published
2011-11-22
Volume
8
Issue
1
Pages
73-84
ISSN
  • 1749-5016 (ISSN-L)
  • 1749-5024
OpenAlex
W2160305908
Cited by
278
References
103
Citations by year
2026: 8 · 2025: 12 · 2024: 14 · 2023: 16 · 2022: 20 · 2021: 24 · 2020: 22 · 2019: 23 · 2018: 23 · 2017: 18 · 2016: 17 · 2015: 28 · 2014: 29 · 2013: 15 · 2012: 9
FWCI
11.56
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • KiltHub Repository (submittedVersion)
  • Figshare (submittedVersion, cc-by)
  • KiltHub Repository
Funders
  • Mind and Life Institute
  • National Institutes of Health
  • National Institute of Mental Health (T-32-MH17140, T32MH017140)
  • National Center for Research Resources (RR024154, KL2RR024154, K12 RR024154)
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
mindful attention, cigarette craving, smoking cues, smoking cessation, mindfulness-based interventions, subgenual anterior cingulate cortex, functional connectivity, psychophysiological interaction, treatment-seeking smokers, cue reactivity, addiction treatment
MeSH terms
Adult, Attention, Awareness, Female, Gyrus Cinguli, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Neural Pathways, Smoking, Smoking Cessation, Behavior, Addictive, Meditation, Functional Neuroimaging

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