Behavioral relapse prevention strategies in smoking cessation.

The study deals with the efficiency of various relapse prevention strategies in smoking cessation therapy. It is designed to examine the efficiency of cognitive and behavioral relapse prevention strategies in conjunction with transdermal nicotine substitution and booster sessions. The results show that application of the relapse prevention strategies in this study provided no significant increase in the long-term effectiveness of smoking cessation therapy. The abstinence rates of the five therapy groups, which were roughly equal on completion of the therapy, showed a more marked decrease in all test groups than in the control group in the 6- and 12-month follow-up.